Incredible Edible Lambeth (IEL) CIC continues to support food growing through advocating for the Right to Grow, and providing members with resources, upskilling and connections. SOCIAL MEDIA We continued to develop our new website www.incredibleediblelambeth.org and employed a communications manager 1 day a week to post weekly about news and events from IEL. We have 2.6k Instagram followers and 1.7k Facebook followers. We introduced two ebulletins a month: one targeted to celebrating the network and one with member offers. PROJECTS Lambeth Food Growing Network: we employed a network manager who visited member projects, learned about their needs for support and arranged training. This included a seed give away and resilient planting talks at Lambeth Climate Day in September and first aid training in January. The network manager was hosted by Lambeth Council one day a week as the single point of contact for food growing in the borough. This was funded by a five year grant from City Bridge Foundation. Biodiversity Project From May 2024 to April 2025 we supported six food growing projects on housing estates to improve the biodiversity of their spaces. We helped create new meadow areas, supported food growing, gave away plants and engaged people through workshops including foraging and art. This work was funded by Lambeth Council’s Changing Lives fund. Growing from the Root Ee supported five housing estate food growing groups to hold 12 events at their sites in 2025. The events included planting days, free food, art and children’s workshops, seed compost and plant giveaways and they provided food growing leaders with resources, connections to other growers and upskilling. The events were funded by the National Lottery Awards For All. Walking maps: We led 11 walks in 2025, with 75 participants. We employed a local person to organise and lead the walks. The walks are funded by Transport for London. Lambeth Schools Are Growing We provided 15 schools with baby plants in Spring, summer and autumn 2025, plus two schools with more intensive horticultural support and additional funding. We celebrated school food growing with features on four exemplar schools on our website, and organised a schools’ food growing conference in February 2026. This was funded by Lambeth Public Health. Food Five Ways project We continued to work with the local community and 11 organisations to build the case for funding a sustainable food neighbourhood. This included a research project into food access and barriers to food in the Food Five Ways area ,funded by NIHR, and we applied for £50k development grant for a local food festival in 2026. ADVOCACY Right to Grow Incredible Edible Lambeth continued to advocate for food growing as part of the London Right To Grow movement. Lambeth Food Partnership: IEL directors actively supported the development of a newly launched Lambeth Food Partnership, helping to create a new sustainable food neighbourhood (Food Five Ways). GOVERNANCE AND CAPACITY Directors and staff - Continued to refine our theory of change - Continued to refine the online accounting and budgeting system - Secured funding from City Bridge Foundation to support the development of the network 2025 - 2030

IEL held an annual general meeting on 23rd February 2026 where we reported to members about activities during 2024-25, presented our financial accounts and updated people on plans for the year ahead. City Bridge Foundation covered our new network coordinator post which will started in June 2025, providing upskilling, connection and resources for members. This post reached out to all members during site visits to gather information about their needs and to co-design and deliver training to meet their needs.

IEL directors are paid to provide management capacity for delivering the projects. In 2025 - 2026 this was: £16,734 Directors contributed more than 400 hours unpaid to administering the organisation, project management and delivery.

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