Support the food hub and get Hearty Squirrel up and scampering again!
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EUCS Edinburgh University Co-operative Society
Mar 10, 2011, 5:43:07 AM3/10/11
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Hello Squirrels
If you're wondering what's going on with Hearty Squirrel, here's a bit of news. This is only relavent to Students at the University of Edinburgh and those others who can vote in EUSA AGMs:
On the 14th March, at 7pm in George Square Lecture theatre, a motion will be presented to EUSA on the 'Food Hub'
The full motion can be read here:
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/pageassets/generalmeeting/find-a-space-for-a-food-hub.pdf
Please invite your friends!
A number of food-related groups at Edinburgh University (namely Hearty Squirrel Co-operative, Fair Trade Cafe, Transition Food Group and Abundance) have come together to create a Food Hub on campus, with the aim of making local, sustainable and ethically-sourced food accessible to the whol...e university community cheaply and conveniently.
Considering the nature of Hearty Squirrel's forced displacement from their former premises, this space should be permanent, and centrally-based (i.e. in Bristo Square or George Square).
This would be a valuable resource for the university community as a whole, extending the range of choice on campus and increase the university’s wider involvement in the Edinburgh community. The venue would offer a space on campus where several societies interested in food could work together. The Food Hub could become the meeting place for other societies, feature a small library of food-related resources and organise workshops, skill-shares and talks to increase knowledge about various food issues.
On a practical level, the Hub would be the delivery point and storage/sorting place for Hearty Squirrel's bulk orders of organic wholefoods and for Transition's local VegBags. The space could be used to store the fruits of Abundance society's autumn pickings along with their bike trailer. Other societies such as Fair Trade Cafe, People & Planet and The Dirty Weekenders amongst many others could use it to place bulk orders of foods for their events and activities.
Student volunteers involved would gain valuable experience of running a project that benefits the local community and directly tackles many of the sustainability and environmental challenges we face. Enabling the creation of a student-run Food Hub focussed on local, ethical and sustainable food is the logical next step for a pioneering university which has already become the first Fairtrade University and Transition University.
this space will help get HS going again so any support would be welcome. the motion cannot pass if the meeting is not quorate, which it regularly is NOT, so please come and vote.
the FB page is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183727511670557
Thanks for your time! Hope you can make it :)
Esmi
If you're wondering what's going on with Hearty Squirrel, here's a bit of news. This is only relavent to Students at the University of Edinburgh and those others who can vote in EUSA AGMs:
On the 14th March, at 7pm in George Square Lecture theatre, a motion will be presented to EUSA on the 'Food Hub'
The full motion can be read here:
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/pageassets/generalmeeting/find-a-space-for-a-food-hub.pdf
Please invite your friends!
A number of food-related groups at Edinburgh University (namely Hearty Squirrel Co-operative, Fair Trade Cafe, Transition Food Group and Abundance) have come together to create a Food Hub on campus, with the aim of making local, sustainable and ethically-sourced food accessible to the whol...e university community cheaply and conveniently.
Considering the nature of Hearty Squirrel's forced displacement from their former premises, this space should be permanent, and centrally-based (i.e. in Bristo Square or George Square).
This would be a valuable resource for the university community as a whole, extending the range of choice on campus and increase the university’s wider involvement in the Edinburgh community. The venue would offer a space on campus where several societies interested in food could work together. The Food Hub could become the meeting place for other societies, feature a small library of food-related resources and organise workshops, skill-shares and talks to increase knowledge about various food issues.
On a practical level, the Hub would be the delivery point and storage/sorting place for Hearty Squirrel's bulk orders of organic wholefoods and for Transition's local VegBags. The space could be used to store the fruits of Abundance society's autumn pickings along with their bike trailer. Other societies such as Fair Trade Cafe, People & Planet and The Dirty Weekenders amongst many others could use it to place bulk orders of foods for their events and activities.
Student volunteers involved would gain valuable experience of running a project that benefits the local community and directly tackles many of the sustainability and environmental challenges we face. Enabling the creation of a student-run Food Hub focussed on local, ethical and sustainable food is the logical next step for a pioneering university which has already become the first Fairtrade University and Transition University.
this space will help get HS going again so any support would be welcome. the motion cannot pass if the meeting is not quorate, which it regularly is NOT, so please come and vote.
the FB page is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183727511670557
Thanks for your time! Hope you can make it :)
Esmi
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