F.A.F

(Food Access Fund)

SUPPORT OUR FUNDRAISER .

Are you a restaurant or food business committed to a more just food system? We a are looking for support to continue our F.A.F project into a second season.

Add £1 to customers' bills for a fairer food system.

We are looking for restaurants to partner with to run our ‘Add £1 to the bill” campaign in support of our Food Access Fund (F.A.F) project. F.A.F exists to make access to organically grown, nutrient dense, local and fresh vegetables easier for households in Tower Hamlets.

Adding a £1 to bills gives customers an easy way to make a positive contribution to the communities around the restaurants they enjoy eating in. Adding a donation to a customer's bills can be integrated simply into established billing processes providing restaurants a stress free way to give back to the communities they are located within.

If you are interested in supporting and would like to find out more information email Rae at community@folxfarm.org

We believe that consciously grown, nutrient-dense food should be accessible to everyone, but this is currently not the case. With the ongoing cost of living crisis, healthy, fresh food, already unaffordable to many, is now further out of reach of those who need it most. Folx Fare Food initiative is trying to establish new models to make our food system more equitable. Our first project F.A.F(Food Access Fund) looks to work with corporate food partners to redistribute the wealth in the London food industry, to support communities in the borough of Tower Hamlets to access fresh, culturally relevant and affordable veg.

WHAT IS F.A.F

FAF will explore how a commercial, small scale farm can concentrate a percentage of its growing activity, on producing foods that are predominantly imported and often staples in the diets of many marginalised communities in the UK, in a way that is environmentally sustainable and economically efficient.

We will do this by raising money through donations from restaurants and food business partners to pay for a grower to establish and maintain a dedicated growing space on the farm, growing produce for our Tower Hamlets Community partners to sell at their weekly markets. The aim, to make organically grown produce accessible and able to reach those communities who would otherwise be unable to afford it.

THE MODEL

TO DATE F.A.F HAS…

Worked with 3 Tower Hamlets Food Co-ops

Grown and supplied over 200kg of fresh vegetables

Vegetables on to the tables of over 40 households in Tower Hamlets

*Data correct as of Dec 2024

How to contribute to the F.A.F

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If you’re a restaurant, the most impactful way to support our work is by contribute to our fundraiser - This can be through a one-off or recurring donation. Money can be raised through a number of creative ways, such as donating the profits from a signiture dish or adding a charitable donation to customers’ bills in aid of our F.A.F.

Support us to maintain the F.A.F growing space and learn new skills by volunteering your time. As and individual attend one of our community open days. We will release dates on our instagram page here! If you are a restaurant or food business and want to arrange a team away day at the farm helping us to maintain the F.A.F space whilst finacial supporting the project, please email using the contact button below. Put ‘Corporate Community Day’ in the subject.

if you have other skills or interests and want to support the project in any way, we would be interested to hear from you. Please contact us using the button below.

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This is not a stand alone project and forms part of a web of organisations, projects and communities who are all working towards transforming current food systems with the mutual understanding that good food should be available and accessible to all. Here we aim to showcase some of this great work and the people, stories and recipes behind it.