Nourish and Grow combines a microbakery and a community growing project. We use the income from our bread sales to support our work providing fresh food for our local foodbank. During the period 1 Apr 2024 - 31 Mar 2025, our activities benefited the community in the following ways: - We made regular donations of freshly baked bread to the foodbank (on average 8 loaves per week). We have also made bread available to local paying customers (almost 200 sales) via our regular order system and pop-up market stalls. - In the summer of 2024, we harvested organic produce from growing spaces, most of which went directly to foodbank, often within hours of picking. - We also coordinated a network of storage boxes across, where other local growers (e.g. allotment holders), could deposit their surplus. We collected this up and delivered it with our own produce to the foodbank each week. - We have run regular volunteer sessions, open to the whole community, where we grow and harvest food; teach people how to grow; and simply enjoy being outside together. We welcomed volunteers of all ages, including groups from local nurseries and schools. For example, a group of secondary school children visited to help us with our spring planting, whilst a group of sixth-form students from a local school worked in the garden one afternoon a week during the autumn term. In 2024, our work at Holy Trinity Barnes was a runner up in Church Times Green Church Awards 2024 ‘Community and Congregations’ competition, a national scheme celebrating the efforts of individuals and congregations to care for creation. The same year, we also received the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) It's Your Neighbourhood Award ‘Level 4 – Thriving,’ part of the Britain in Bloom Campaign focussed on community participation.

Our stakeholders are residents of Barnes and Mortlake in southwest London, as well as clients who attend the Barnes Foodbank, who may have travelled from further afield. We are in regular contact with our microbakery customers via our email newsletters and social media. We have used the latter to specifically seek stakeholder input, for example when developing ideas for new products. Hosting pop-up bakery stalls at events has also given us the opportunity to try our new lines before introducing them to the wider market. It also gives us chance to talk face-to-face with customers, which has been useful in furthering our wider work, for example, identifying other local growers who may want to join our network, delivering surplus fruit and veg to foodbank. We always seek feedback, usually via email, from groups who have come to volunteer with us. This has enabled us to adapt our activities for future events, for example, where activities have not gone quite to plan.

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