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Phili's blog

To help inspire others to consider alternative ways of shopping Phili Denning shares her story of setting up a food buying group from her...

Naked Larder: Fighting against food packaging waste

Tired of unnecessary plastic packaging and inefficient recycling, Phili Denning was inspired to establish Naked Larder as a means of providing a...

Arthur St Trading: Working towards a more transparent, fairer and environmentally friendly food system

Established in West Hull in the mid-1990s, Arthur Street Trading Company is a workers’ cooperative offering an award winning box scheme full of...

Unicorn Grocery: a supermarket with a difference

Unicorn Grocery is supermarket-sized workers’ cooperative providing affordable, fresh produce and wholefoods with an emphasis on organic,...

Frome Food Hub: say "yes to local!"

Offering local, sustainable produce without any hassle, the Frome Food Hub is an online click-and-collect service working to support local farmers...

BeetBox

BeetBox: student-run veg box scheme at University of Kent.

City Food Co-op

City Food Co-op: affordable food buying club.

Hungry Dragon

Hungry Dragon: sustainable food project using surplus fruit and vegetables.

Re-Vive

Re-Vive: student-led social enterprise working to reduce food waste in Leeds

Sussex Food Co-operative

Sussex Food Co-operative: wholefood food co-operative at Sussex University

Come Dine With Us

Come Dine With Us: food growing and cooking at West College Scotland

Bees at Brunel

Bees at Brunel is a student-led group that have worked together with a local bee keeping organisation to install hives on campus and run events...

Green Loop Project

Green Loop Project: a food growing social enterprise at Bournemouth University.

OurJar

OurJar: jams and marmalades from surplus fruit.

RAU Honey

RAU Honey: sustainable honey enterprise at the Royal Agricultural University.

This Is Our Jam

This Is Our Jam: ketchup, cordials and chutneys from campus-grown fruit and vegetables at University of Roehampton.

The Apple Project

The Apple Project: heritage apple juices and chutneys by students at Wiltshire College.

Grow, Love, Eat

Grow, Love, Eat: sustainability-championing student enterprise at University of Stirling.

Edible Campus Co-op and Preserves

Edible Campus Co-op and Preserves: campus-grown vegetables, wholefoods and preserves at Lancaster University

Penryn Produce

Case studies from 2012

All of the following case studies were written a while back but we think they are still worth looking at so have kept them available for you.

City University Food Co-op

City Food Co-op team is run by Francesca and Marta who are postgraduate foodies from Italy, studying Food Policy, which looks at how food is prepared...

Brighton University Food Co-op

Although Brighton University Food Co-op has been running for a few years, in 2016 it got a new lease of life and is now running regularly across...

Exeter VegShare

Motivated by a wish to learn more about how their local food system works and what steps they could take to make it more sustainable, students at the...

SOAS Food Co-op

The SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) food co-op in central London has a pretty simple aim - to distribute high quality delicious...

Imperial Food Co-op

Imperial Food Co-op: healthy & sustainable zero-waste student initiative.

Weigh To Go

Weigh To Go: a student-led wholefoods social enterprise with Keele SU.

UEA Food Co-op

UEA Food Co-op: student-run organisation selling organic, fairtrade groceries at wholesale prices.

FetchUrVeg

FetchUrVeg: seasonal veg box scheme from King's College London students.