FW: New e-mail/Blog and Update

[Janet Zaddisa]

Hello

I sent out this e-mail from new e-mail address for the "Food Festival" - chapeltownf...@hotmail.co.uk - but wouldn't deliver to the chapeltown food group or edible public space. I will sort this out, but wanted everyone to get the information. Please use new e-mail address for replies.

Regards

JAnet Zaddisa
St Marys GArdening Group

 

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From: chapeltownf...@hotmail.co.uk
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Subject: New e-mail/Blog and Update
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:44:46 +0100

Hello Everyone.
 
Just a very quick up-date on where we are with the Food Festival, and to draw your attention to the new e-mail address.
 
Also, it would appear that people would prefer to continue with the word "Festival" as a description of the event.
 
I would also like to re-direct everyone to the blog http://www.blogger.com/i.g?inviteID=296119688294735427blogID602299 , kindly set up by Claire Harbottle over a month ago. I will be updating and promoting the Festival on the Blog from now on, as it seems a good way to attract more attention to the Food Festival. I am also going to set up a Face Book page, I'm afraid my capabilities don't run to a Web Page...any offers?!
 
Here is where we are up to press:-
 

• We are in the diary for the Reginald Park on 22nd September 2012
• We need Public Liability Insurance, available from BCTV for £191 (this would cover 5 events in the year). I am applying for a Small Grant to cover this. We need a Health&Safety Assessment, a First Aid plan and a Child Protection plan. I am working on these, but if any one can offer help or advice I would be gald of it.
• St Marys Gardening Group have agreed to set up a secondary bank account, with a separate account number, for the purposes of Fund Raisiing for the Food festival.
• I am meeting with Lotte Shaw of Union105 at 1pm this coming Wednesday to work on getting a leaflet done, which will be printed asap. This is not so much to advertise the Festival, which is four months away, but to promote "growing your own" and getting involved going up to the Food Festival.
• We will continue to hand out seeds and information outside "Taste" on Chapeltown Road, currently Saturday from 12 - 2pm. Any volunteers would be welcome, as well as any donations of seeds/seedlings. It would be great if someone could come along and demonstrate some of the things from the "Back to Front" manual
• "Inkwell Creative Arts" have agreed that we would be able to use their kitchen (about to get a re-furbishment) for cooking for the Food Festival. I am going to contact "Rocket Catering", a Chapeltown business specialising in vegetarian cooking, with a view to them doing the cooking - we have to do something like this to comply with the Food Hygiene regulations etc; This may be a cost that we have to raise funds for. I also intend to contact the Sikh Centre on Chapeltown Road, with a view to them cooking some food from the Sikh culture for the Food Festival.
• The Reginald Centre costs £3:00 per hour to hire - and I don't think this includes use of the car park. Porta Loos seem a better solution, I will cost them.
• We will need Marshals, and to inform the police.
• I suggested to Cllr; Ogilvie and Cllr; Dowson that the "Feed Leeds" project may be launched at the Food Festival. I had a positive response.  I did not realise at the time that Chiara Tornaghi is dealing with the launch, and we are to meet up to discuss how we might work together on this, or at least for the "Feed Leeds" project to have some presence at the Festival. We will meet prior to the next "Feed Leeds Project" meeting on 21st June.

 
I will be continuing to update on the Blog,
 
Next meeting will be on Wednesday 13th June, venue to be arranged. Any thoughts, ideas, offers of help would be gratefully received, and also please forward this to anyone you know who may be interested, and please promote the Festival wherever you can!!  
 
KInd regards
 
Janet Zaddisa