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North of England
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Age UK Wigan
Age UK Wigan Borough will be recruiting local volunteers of all ages who will visit isolated older people in their communities and either cook a meal with them or bring a freshly cooked meal to share. They will also be supporting older people with growing and exploring options to partner with schools and youth organisations. -
Pickering and Ferens Homes
Pickering and Ferens Homes work closely with over 60s living in residential accommodation to enable them to live independently long into retirement. They aim to build an intergenerational community around their sites and get children from local schools on board with growing activities.
Wales
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Cardiff Salad Garden
Cardiff Salad Garden combine growing and selling fresh cut salad leaves whilst working with disadvantaged groups of individuals from in and around Cardiff. They plan on building a beautiful and inspiring living salad mobile workshop which will provide a welcoming and functional space to bring communities together. -
Outside Lives
Outside Lives promote personal well-being and inter-generational connections through interests, abilities and the environment. Their Dig In group will be developing a community garden, and their Foodies group will use food to achieve greater integration with new people in a welcoming environment. -
George Street Primary School
George Street Primary School aim to create a safe, nurturing and happy place to be. They will invite, plan and share a meal with residents of local care homes and develop an allotment as to share experiences with the local community with a focus on sharing experiences with grandparents.
Scotland
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Space & Broomhouse Hub
Space & the Broomhouse Hub is a community space that offers a café, befriending opportunities for young carers, youth services and a small urban farm. They will host bi-monthly meals where the community can come together to cook local food cheaply and easily while reducing food waste. -
Rumpus Room
Rumpus Room is an artist led initiative dedicated to collaborative arts practice with children and young people in order to challenge how we play, learn, make art and be active in our communities.  Rumpus Room artists will work with Govanhill Greenspace and Küche  (cooking social enterprise) to host a series of intergenerational creative arts and food workshops. -
Belville Community Gardens
Belville Community Gardens will be running Uplift Meals - a monthly intergenerational community meal. Participants will use veg and herbs from the gardens which have transformed derelict land into a valuable space for the community with raised beds, a cooking space and a teaching area.
Northern Ireland
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An Tobar CIC
An Tobar CIC, a social enterprise in rural South Armagh provides nature based health and wellbeing interventions for people of all ages and abilities. Through a 20-week intergenerational Grow, Cook & Eat programme and community Get Togethers they aim to increase confidence and build self-esteem and social skills within the community. -
Ardmonagh Family & Community Group
Ardmonagh Family & Community Group located in Turf Lodge supports the needs of the local community. They will deliver a number of growing, cooking and eating activities to bring different generations together to share, learn and breakdown barriers to ageism whilst bringing the wider community together through Get Together events. -
Spa Nursing Homes
Spa Nursing Homes provided residential and nursing care for residents in Belfast and Ballynahinch.  With socially distancing measures in place they aim to build an intergeneration community around four of their sites, working in partnership with community organisations, young people and families to develop community food growing, gardens and orchard, cooking and sharing food activities. -
Wee Chicks
Wee Chicks promote family health, wellbeing and fitness through childcare. They will develop their Wee & Wise project connecting older people and early years through a series of weekly good food focused activities including cooking, arts, crafts and the development of an on-site growing space.
Midlands
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Dane View Care Home
Dane View Care Home have a beautiful landscaped garden and orchid. They invite pupils from a local primary school in to spend time with the residents. Fruit from the orchid provides food for these activities, and the large chapel on site will be used to bring people together to share food. -
The Active Wellbeing Society
The Active Wellbeing Society aim to bring people together to take part in fun, free activities that will help them to feel a sense of belonging and community. They will run weekly workshops across their community kitchens to bring together young people, older adults and young families. -
Sycamore Dining
Sycamore Dining brings people together to socialise over an affordable meal. Their customers are predominantly from independent living communities for the elderly. With Get Togethers, they will increase the diversity of the people using their social dining service through involvement in social prescribing. -
The Hothouse
The Hothouse is a Church of England project that benefits communities by offering one to one support. They also facilitate weekly intergenerational activities so people of different ages can all learn from each other. Through cooking activities they will raise awareness of how food can build a sense of community.