Affordable Healthy Food Midlothian (360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gAR8iQAG)

Our outcomes will include: * Up to 20 people will have access to our weekly meal (a community cooking and eating event) * Up to 48 participants including our participants and the wider community taking part in a minimum of two celebratory, community meal events at the Pavilion * Up to 10 people will access food waste – potentially feeding up to 38 people * 6 people volunteering on a regular basis and confident enough to work with minimum supervision * 12 people access training in food hygiene, first aid or other related courses * 10 people will take leftovers home each week, with other leftovers being frozen and made available to others who are experiencing food poverty (food can be given to those who ask for a foodbank referral etc) * 20 attendees will also access other projects and services offered by/via MAEDT (CAB, School Uniform recycling, Job Club) * all participants will report higher levels of confidence and self-reliance. Other outcomes will include the establishment of a self-supporting community food project in one of Midlothian's communities of highest need. The development of a Recovery Café which will serve the community of Mayfield and Easthouses. An understanding of the potential of the model to be extended into Woodburn. We will use the learning from this project to inform the work our partners in other areas undertake in this field. It would be hoped that some of our volunteers may be confident enough to help out in other geographical areas, but we understand that this is a short project and the client group we are working with may take a longer period to build trust and confidence in their abilities. A better understanding of the links between food poverty/insecurity and other projects with a shared agenda through the continuing development of the Midlothian Food and Health Alliance The Development Worker at MAEDT has strong working relationships with partners in the Food and Health Alliance, learning and knowledge will be freely shared amongst the group (and beyond) in order to ensure our clients are fully supported.