Food Five Ways

Incredible Edible Lambeth is a partner of Food Five Ways which is a project of the Lambeth Food Partnership.
 
Food Five Ways is a collaborative partnership of local grassroots organisations that already work with food – running pantries, supporting food growing, running community businesses and providing doorstep food deliveries.
 
It is listening to local residents and working together with the aim that everyone can eat well, now and in the future.
 

Why? To become a neighbourhood where no-one struggles for good quality culturally relevant and affordable food.

How? By building a strong and united neighbourhood using food to spark change, amplifying community voices

Who? We are a group of local partners who are already working alongside the local community.

Food Five Ways is funded by Lambeth Food Partnership and Lambeth Forums Network (Myatt’s Fields Forum).

PROJECT UPDATES

Small grant: Lambeth Mutual Aid

Lambeth Mutual Aid held a lunch and visioning session at Advocacy Academy on 28th June 2025 for approximately 25 people – talking about getting affordable food that is GOOD and that we can SHARE! They shared food and mapped food in the borough This project was funded by Myatt’s Fields Forum, with five £500 grants offered to local organisations to help improve access to sustainable, culturally appropriate food in the Food Five Ways area. It supported the work of Lambeth

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Small grant: Slaylife Hub

Slaylife Hub hosted a meal for 15 young people on 23rd July with chat and art works at their beauty salon on Loughborough Road. This project was funded by Myatt’s Fields Forum, with five £500 grants offered to local organisations to help improve access to sustainable, culturally appropriate food in the Food Five Ways area. It supported the work of Lambeth Food Partnership project, Food Five Ways. IEL is a partner in Food Five Ways.

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Small grant: Sunshine International Arts

Our Shared Spaces – The Heart of Home 70 Portuguese, Indian, Pakistani, African-Caribbean, Jamaican, Filipino, Jewish-Ukrainian, and British people crafted a tablecloth representing their memories of home-cooked meals during two workshops at Sunshine International Arts workshop in Loughborough Junction in June 2025. This project was funded by Myatt’s Fields Forum, with five £500 grants offered to local organisations to help improve access to sustainable, culturally appropriate food in the Food Five Ways area. It supported the work of Lambeth Food

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Trip to Wolves Lane Centre

Incredible Edible Lambeth joined other organisations to visit Wolves Lane Centre in Haringey on 13th August. Eleven representatives of nine organisations from Food Five Ways area learned about the work of Black Rootz and Ubele, enjoyed a tour around Wolves Lane Centre fantastic greenhouses and ate lunch together in the sunshine before taking part in a collaborative planning session in the afternoon. We also heard from a National Lottery Community Fund officer, who described opportunities to raise funds for food

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Trip to Cooperation Town Hub

We were delighted to learn more about setting up and running food coops during a trip to Belsize Park on 22nd July. Incredible Edible Lambeth joined Healthy Living Platform, Black Prince Trust, Myatt’s Fields Park Project, Shamha Vibrations, Angell Delight and Eyes of the Many/Brixton Farm at Cooperation Town London hub for a delicious lunch, a tour and knowledge exchange. Cooperation Town Hub is Cooperation Town’s community and logistics space in Gospel Oak, north London. The hub receives around 2 tonnes

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Trip to Coop Town Hub

22nd July 2025 noon – 3pm Food Five Ways is organising a trip to Cooperation Town Hub in Belsize Park on 22nd July 2025 noon – 3pm. Lunch and travel expenses will be covered. Cooperation Town Hub is Cooperation Town’s community and logistics space in Gospel Oak, north London. The hub receives around 2 tonnes of food every week, which are shared amongst twelve local community food co-ops in their movement. Five co-ops use it as their regular organising and meeting

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Food Five Ways conference

Twenty three people from across our neighbourhood met at Marcus Lipton youth club on 27th February to give their ideas about how we can work together for a sustainable food neighbourhood. People from 13 organisations were supported by Soraya Clarke to identify joint projects that would help us become a neighbourhood where no-one struggles for healthy, affordable food. Ideas from the day include: * “build what we have” with joint outreach and leadership programmes * a weekly market * joint

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Funding for Lambeth food projects

Lambeth Food Partnership is offering the borough’s grassroots organisations up to £500 to help meet its aim that everybody in Lambeth will be able to eat well and make food choices that nourish them, their community, and the environment. There is £5000 on offer for projects across Lambeth and £2500 ring-fenced for projects in the Food Five Ways area. Click here for guidelines and to apply: return your completed forms by 23:59 on 6th April to lambethfoodpartnership@gmail.com. Thanks to Lambeth Forums Network for funding

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Celebrating a Year of Climate Action

As 2024 comes to an end, we’re taking a moment to reflect on everything we’ve achieved this year. IEL has worked with 26 groups of residents to improve life on Lambeth housing estates: together we have completed installation of 15 composting sites, 6 biodiversity sites, and brought people together at 5 events and 8 guided walks across the borough. We’ve lobbied for the Right To Grow and and for land justice, and worked with others to create Lambeth’s first sustainable

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Visit to Women’s Environmental Network

Food activists travelled to meet the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) organisers in Tower Hamlets on 23rd October to learn about developing a sustainable food neighbourhood. Representatives from Food Five Ways (Healthy Living Platform, Loughborough Junction Action Group, Max Roach Community Centre, Incredible Edible Lambeth and Myatt’s Fields Park Project) learned about Just FACT project.  WEN received funding from the National Lottery Climate Action Fund to develop a network of people coming together to create an alternative food system that is

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Food Five Ways kicks off at Moorlands!

We joined residents for a conversation about food and biodiversity at Moorlands Estate on Saturday 7th September. IEL worked with Food Five Ways partners to organise the day which included family nature fun activities, drumming, free hot food, face painting and flowers for all. We heard resident feedback about how to create a better food system that nurtures people and planet. Many thanks to National Lottery Fund Awards for All and Lambeth Council for funding the day.

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