Earlier this month it was announced that The Seed Community Food Hub Project received a $267,00 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. You can read more about that announcement HERE. More information about The Seed Community Food Hub is available HERE.
The Seed Community Food Hub Committee
We believe…
The Seed Community Food Hub Committee believes in creating a space to bring people together with food to improve health, community, access and advocacy efforts. The vision for The Seed Community Food Hub is based on three years of research with the Research Shop at the University of Guelph, which examined the challenges current emergency food providers and users face in Guelph and Wellington. This new vision offers our community a long-term, sustainable solution to food insecurity.
What we know…
- 39% of emergency food providers in Guelph and Wellington identified insufficient food supply, particularly in the case of nutritious and/or fresh food, as a challenge within the current system (The Research Shop, 2011)
- 23% of survey respondents that are currently accessing emergency food in our community reported that stigma is the main barrier to service (The Research Shop, 2013)
- 98% of respondents facing hunger and food insecurity say The Stop Community Food Centre plays an important role in helping them cope (Community Food Centres Canada)
- 61.5% of respondents say their physical health has improved since they came to The Stop Community Food Centre (Community Food Centres Canada)
What we’re doing about it…
- Hosting an Open Space Consultation in January 2014 for champions to provide input into the overall vision
- Following up with a Food Charette in March 2014 to create an Action Plan
- Developing an Action Plan to move our vision forward (to be released in Summer 2014)
Who we are…
Chair: Sheila Cranmer-Byng, Interim PTF Coordinator
- City of Guelph
- County of Wellington
- Guelph Community Health Centre
- Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition
- University of Guelph
- Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health
For more information, please contact: Randalin “at” gwpoverty.ca
This project was funded in part by a grant from The Guelph Community Foundation (www.guelphcf.ca)
