Social Food Outlets (SFOs)
To improve access to healthy affordable fresh produce, and also promote healthy eating, CFE have developed a network of Fixed and Mobile Social Food Outlets throughout East London. Fixed Social Food Outlets are run by volunteers and are mainly based in Schools (Infant and Primary) and they sell quality fresh fruit and vegetables to the community. The Mobile Social Food Outlet stops at strategic locations throughout during weekdays.
Benefits of SFOs:
Health Benefits
- Improving health inequality by enabling people on low income to access health enhancing food at affordable prices
- Improving access to health enhancing produce to people living in areas classified as food deserts
- Improving people’s diet and increasing consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables especially to people on low income
- Improving access to fresh fruit and vegetable to people with mobility problems
- Alleviating food poverty by enabling local people who are on low income to access fresh fruits and vegetables at affordable prices
- Promoting and raising awareness of the government’s 5 a day message
- Educating local people of the benefits of healthy eating
Social Benefits
- Lowering or eliminating barriers that prevents local people from accessing culturally appropriate food
- Generating wealth for the area in terms of money we bring into the local economy and the time invested in training volunteers
- Providing jobs and employment opportunities for local people as well as improving their quality of life
- Improving employability for people who are unemployed by providing them with training and skills to get them back into work
- Providing local people with opportunity to gain valuable training
- Providing volunteering opportunity for local people
- Community empowerment
- Capacity building
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