Past Projects

We support and advocate for access to healthy, affordable food, grown and produced locally. 

Our dream?  We see a future where there is a food growing space within 100m of each Lambeth home and each of our projects works to help make this possible.

 

Open University

Project 2023-24 Funded by Open University Food growers face multiple barriers to growing from lack of funding, bureaucratic obstacles and problems in securing land. From 2023 – 2024, two IEL

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Youth volunteers 2023

The IEL Youth Volunteers met on Saturday mornings at the West Norwood Library and Picturehouse during 2023.  This was part of a pilot program with Lambeth Libraries providing youth with

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Lambeth plots

We were very excited work in partnership with Arup in 2020, who facilitated research mapping to identify the existing and potential food growing spaces across the whole borough, building a

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Arup Framework for Food Growing

Project 2021-22 Funded by Arup IEL worked with Arup, the landscape architecture consultants, on a research project to better understand the barriers, challenges and opportunities for community food growing in

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Grow Back Greener

Grow Back Greener provided six groups with mentoring and funding to design and install new gardens, and to improve biodiversity and food growing with ways to look after the land

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Mow 4 Change Campaign

IEL campaigned for a reduction in mowing to support biodiversity in the borough. Pollinators are vitally important. Without pollinators there would be no fruit or veg, so we need to

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‘Growing Up’ Short Film

Before lockdown, we made a short film about four amazing Lambeth schools that have embraced outdoor learning. We made it because we know there are huge benefits for children if

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