Skills and resources I/we can share: Music and storytelling related to climate justice; time and organisational skills

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I am a food writer, columnist and cookery teacher as well as a pop up chef who is setting up Glasgow's first community cook school, called Kaleyard Cook School, which will be set up as a social enterprise. I have worked to teach kids how to cook in schools in Glasgow (with Food for Thought support) for free, as well as worked with teenager cooking programme called Root Camp last year. Additionally I am passionate about local, seasonal and ethical/ organic produce. My new cook school with work on teaching communities to cook from scratch, support all adults and kids too cook simple good food, connecting disadvantaged communities, ethnic population, over 50/60's reconnect and learn to enjoy good food together around a table, Using cooking and creating simple food filled with flavour together, as a connective tissue within Glasgow's communities. Having grown up in Pakistan and moved to Britain only 13 years ago, and being an immigrant myself, I understand first hand how important it is to use a positive tool to assist integration into community - and food is the best medium. I teach across the UK in some of the top cook schools , i have cooked in a London based community cook school and am the author of two award winning and nominated cook books and a weekly columnist for the Sunday Herald and a BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland broadcaster too. I am setting up my cook school initial in an existing CIC (Locavore) where I shall be hiring the kitchen to host my classes / pop ups.

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The Orchard Project is bringing community orchards to cities and towns across England and Scotland. We are re-fruiting the country, working in partnership with communities to plant, manage, restore and harvest from their own orchards. We rebuild orcharding skills, celebrate orchard heritage and contribute to a better, locally-led food system.

Skills and resources I/we can share: Cooking, good scientific knowledge of plants and agriculture

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Skills and resources I/we can share: Alternative Food Networks; Research; Impact Assessments; Digital communications; Facilitation; Project management

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Skills and resources I/we can share: Graphic design, cooking, organising

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Since the inception of The Real Junk Food Project in 2013, we have grown to become a global network of over 200 groups that have collectively prevented over 2500 tons of perfectly edible food from going to landfill and have fed over 1.1 million people. In Glasgow we operate as a social enterprise that rescues surplus food to provide nutritious pop-up community meals, cooking workshops and we also offer a zero-waste catering option. As well as the positive environmental impacts of reducing edible food waste, the project also has clear social benefits through operating a 'pay-as-you-feel' policy at our community meals. The system transcends monetary transactions and liberates people to use their skills and attributes as well as money to pay for their meals. Furthermore, we aim to highlight the absurdity that the produce we use has been stripped of its monetary value but still retains its nutritional value. By making people think about what they wish to contribute for their meals we get people thinking about how they value food as a resource. We challenge the food industry by exposing the perfectly edible food that is wasted and educate the public on key issues that create this surplus. We aim to abolish food waste by challenging social stigmas attached to food provisions and create inclusive environments. We aim to #FeedBelliesNotBins