Healthy Living Platform Annual General Meeting 7th December 2020

Agenda
Annual report on activities
Financial report
E-book launch plans
Review of 7th December action at Southwyck

Background

Welcome to our 1st AGM
Founded in April 2019
First year focus on one project - LEAP into Healthy Living
Since April 2020 increased out activities
Four directors: Sue Sheehan, Vinnie O’Connell, Hannah Ratcliffe, Janet Baker
plus shadow directors who are ready to become trustees when we become a charity: Nick Anim, Giles Gibson, Daniel Mazilah, Jackie Marie
Healthy Living Platform was founded in April 2019, splitting off from Incredible Edible Lambeth to deliver large scale health and sustainability programmes, in particular the LEAP into Healthy Living programme.

Since then we have developed some other projects:
catering/workshops eg Laughter Yoga
Brixton Food Hub
Tulse Hill Polytunnel
Laughter Yoga

And this year
Surplus Food Distribution
New Baby service
Southwyck/Moorlands lottery support
No catering but still some workshops eg Mini Chefs

Before I go into detail about the individual projects - refocus on our vision

Mission & vision
The objects of the Company are:
To facilitate and deliver activities which benefit the health & wellbeing of the community
To develop community projects and activities that empower local people and are self-sustaining
To encourage healthy and sustainable lifestyles by providing practical training, education, information and support on nutrition, cookery, food growing, health and wellbeing

Vision: To put food at the heart of our communities and use food as way of bringing people together in their neighbourhood to build mutual support networks.

he objects of the Company are:
To facilitate and deliver activities which benefit the health & wellbeing of the community
To develop community projects and activities that empower local people and are self-sustaining
To encourage healthy and sustainable lifestyles by providing practical training, education, information and support on nutrition, cookery, food growing, health and wellbeing

Vision: To put food at the heart of our communities and use food as way of bringing people together in their neighbourhood to build mutual support networks.
Particularly interested in estates.. Hence Southwyck & Moorlands work - and work with Brixton Hub which is very much about enabling communities to use food as a way of starting neighbourly projects.
Food - should be the best food it can be - healthy/nutritional, sustainable (environmentally, economically)

LEAP into Healthy Living
LEAP - 10 year lottery project
OUr main focus is food.
cook and eat projects (all vegetarian because we want to encourage people to eat more vegetables, and for everyone to eat the same thing, parents and children),
We provide subsidised fruit and vegetables (free through surplus) again to make it easier to eat more vegetables
We run a Food Ambassador training programme to give people food hygiene certificates and skills that they can use to cook in their communities and to help them get paid work
We encourage physical activities
Zumba, yoga - all on-line now, and family fitness classes
Walks - exploring new places
We are currently collecting wellies and
We encourage gardening and growing of food

LEAP into Healthy Living is a project for Lambeth Early Action Partnership, a 10 year Lottery funded programme to improve lives for children born into poverty in four of the borough’s most deprived wards. There are over 20 interventions that have been funded as part of that programme, and we are just one, but it is a significant part of the work. Our mission is make it easier for people to lead healthy lives, so we to do a few things:
OUr main focus is food.
cook and eat projects (all vegetarian because we want to encourage people to eat more vegetables, and for everyone to eat the same thing, parents and children),
We provide subsidised fruit and vegetables (free through surplus) again to make it easier to eat more vegetables
We run a Food Ambassador training programme to give people food hygiene certificates and skills that they can use to cook in their communities and to help them get paid work
We encourage physical activities
Zumba, yoga - all on-line now, and family fitness classes
Walks - exploring new places
We are currently collecting wellies and outdoor clothing for under 5s
We encourage gardening and growing of food

Cookbook
We put coproduction at the heart of everything we do. We assume that everyone has something to offer which means we have a big team of local people sharing recipes, skills and ideas. Pre-Covid this was mainly in cook and eat sessions, but we have had to find new ways of working. We unlocked some new media talent with quite a few of our food ambassadors sharing their skills on-line, and tonight we are launching our first e-cookbook.

Video - ask JanetRedistribution
Video - ask Janet

Creating food hubs
Using surplus food as a way to connect - neighbours supporting neighbours
Under-used community halls - larder, fridge, freezer, cooking, training, meals on wheels, shop, food coop (something more visionary than emergency food parcels)
Sustainable transport
Healthy, local, sustaianble food

Model/learning on Southwyck estate
Challenge:
Outreach, building trusted relationships
Partnerships:
Millennium Community Services
Metropolitan Housing
Breyer
Lambeth Housing
Gabriele - student

Becoming a charity
The objects of the Company are to facilitate and deliver activities for the Public Benefit which benefit the health & wellbeing of the community at large. This benefit is particularly but not exclusively for the Borough of Lambeth and is restricted to the following.

1.To use the advancement and promotion of community food projects to empower local communities and develop the capacity and skills of disadvantaged members of those communities in such a way that they are available to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in society. In addition, encouraging them to be more self-sustaining. Target people on low incomes, BAME, people with disabilities or long term conditions, young people, old people.

2.To preserve and protect the health of the public, encouraging healthy and sustainable lifestyles: including by the provision of practical training, education, information and support on nutrition, cookery, food growing, health, wellbeing, digital support and mindfulness. 3.To develop community food hubs to relieve food poverty in the greater community by the distribution of surplus food to those members of the community most in need at any point in time.

4.To develop a community kitchen that is open to all members of the community and will assist in the reduction of food poverty, through the production of meals, provision of cooking training and skills and discussion and information relating to healthy food and healthy living.

5. To offer and deliver excellent, flexible volunteering opportunities to people in the community, through induction, support, ongoing training, effective communication, and value

We are currently looking for more trustees to help us with this - particularly looking for someone with experience of setting up a charity, or running a charity structure, HR, and safeguarding

Building our staff team
HR review currently underway
Sue Sheehan
Helen Wiggins
Mala Naicker
Zoe Marks
Serena Cunningham
Mandy Mazilah
Jenine Baptiste
Bruno Gonzalves
Penny Wood
Safiya Robinson

Currently recruiting

Surplus food distribution assistants
Short-term admin assistant

Trustees with expertise in:
Running a charity
Safeguarding
HR
HR review currently underway - used a lot of freelance staff and now able to bring them in to form a cohesive team on payroll (fixed term contracts).
And we have some temporary contracts that we have to recruit to.
Currenlty live recruiting some admin support