Woolwich Front Room needs you! Are you looking to volunteer in a meaningful, but fun and engaging way? Have you got 4 or more hours per week to share your skills and experience to make a difference in your local community? We are looking for experienced volunteers to work in our vibrant community café in Woolwich. We would particularly love to hear from you if you have … [Read more...]
Call out for surplus food
Call out for surplus food If you are a food business, food production, hospitality, market trader or organisation And find yourself throwing away surplus food fit for human consumption Then let GCDA know here and we may be able to collect it to redistribute to community food projects Fill out this short form to let GCDA if you have or know of any Surplus click … [Read more...]
Silver Award for Borough-Wide Initiatives
Good Food in Greenwich (GFiG) is proud to announce that the borough has received the Sustainable Food Places silver award, recognising the borough-wide commitment to positive change across key sustainable food issues. GFiG has been working hard toward silver since receiving bronze back in 2016, and Greenwich has now joined five other locations in the UK to receive the … [Read more...]
Celebrate Co-op Fortnight
Did you know that GCDA started out four decades ago as a small co-op focused on helping local people access affordable healthy food, green spaces and enterprise support? Now, forty years on, we’ve grown beyond recognition. We offer a fully funded accredited training programme, support a range of social enterprise projects and manage a network of community hubs. Co-ops … [Read more...]
GCDA AGM
We normally hold our AGM before Christmas, and it is usually a great opportunity for us to share some home-cooked food and let you all know what GCDA has achieved over the preceding few months. 2020 was of course a year like no other. We were hoping that if we delayed our AGM we might be able to meet you all in person, but sadly it is still not possible. However, we are now … [Read more...]