Befriending Food Experience promotes food fun and friendship.We offer a’ dining in’ experience for older and disabled people, cooked in their own homes.A ‘dining out ‘ experience includes sharing food in a community setting/centre with entertainment/board games/music/stories.The food is nutritious,delicious and colourful- Mediterranean/Italian/Traditional and offers vegan and vegetarian options.We are mindful of allergies and dietary restrictions. We are supported by Impact Arts/ Craft Cafe and Elderpark Housing Association. The Befriending element includes outings to concerts, Moogety Garden and community meal,Craft Cafe and home visits.

Skills and resources I/we can share: I am a small scale grower of medicinal mushrooms. I can cultivate spores, produce spawn and make my own substrates.

Skills and resources I/we need.: To meet people interested in mycology and scaling up production.

Skills and resources I/we can share: I am a professional chef, and teaching experience. I also have a limited knowledge of foraging.

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Skills and resources I/we can share: Food growing, community gardening, arts and craft skills

Skills and resources I/we need.: Land, forest gardening skills

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Skills and resources I/we can share: Growing, cooking art workshops

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Skills and resources I/we can share: art activity , growing , cooking

Skills and resources I/we need.: currently wishing to connect with groups working with food and growing

Skills and resources I/we can share: experience of growing veg; website management; basic scientific knowledge, especially chemistry

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,Hwupenyu Health & Wellbeing is a service user community-based project. Hwupenyu caters for the Black Minority Ethnic communities living Scotland Diabetes 1&2, Hypertension, HIV and Mental Health. The Organisation allows people in the BME communities living in Scotland to have a Space where they can be themselves and have a voice about their own health and lives. The project delivers services and activities that place an emphasis on access, prevention, treatment, and therapeutic services in a culturally sensitive way. We also have a foodbank that serves our community.