Tooting Foodival 2015 today received an inaugural Grow Wandsworth Award from Mayor of Wandsworth, Nicola Nardelli, who launched the awards to encourage people and organisations who grow healthy, fresh, local food in Community Food Projects.
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| With Mayor Nicola at Wandsworth Town Hall |
At a reception in the Mayor's Parlour at the Town Hall, including very beautiful cakes, Foodival won the "Sunshine Award" for "celebrating the ways people have brought a bit of sunshine into the lives of others through community growing"! We do our best!
Back in September the Mayor experienced the myriad food related activities at Samaj Hall, including some prize winning vegetables and bananas (below)!
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| Mayor Nicola Nardelli with David & Mal at Foodival 2015 |
We are delighted to receive this award and it was really interesting to meet people from the other award-winning community groups including friends from SHARE Community and Wendelsworth Community Garden as well as new contacts who we hope to collaborate with in the future.
For anyone interested in getting involved in Foodival 2016, the first planning meeting will be at the King's Head in Upper Tooting Road, Tooting Bec, on this Thursday evening (Feb 4th) at 7pm. All welcome to help us work out how we will create this year's home grown sustainable food festival in Tooting. If you have any ideas, skills, or just fancy being part of a fantastic (and now award-winning!) community project please do come along.
