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The Devon & Cornwall Food Association Ltd (DCFA) is a Private Company Limited by Guarantee.

Registered Company Number: 07419679. Registered Charity Number: Pending

Members of :

NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations)

PTSC (The Plymouth Third Sector Consortium),

and The Small Charities Coalition.

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...And Voluntary Donations.

The Devon & Cornwall Food Association Ltd (DCFA)

NEWSLETTERJanuary February 2011

Spare Food is Share Food!

7 Whimple Street, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2DH Mobile: 07745819828 (text only) Email: [email protected] Website: http://dcfa.webs.com

FOREWORD BY THE CHAIR

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Welcome to 2011, and to our second Newsletter! Weve

held our first Board Meeting of the New Year and things are

starting to move along nicely. Our

Press Release has been made public

and were aiming for all-systems-go in

February.

Theres still a lot of work to be done

behind the scenes and were so

grateful we have a fully-committed

Board of Trustees; otherwise we would simply not have

progressed this far so quickly. As Chair of our Board, Im

indebted to them all and value their support so very much.

A small group of us travelled to Bristol this month to take a

look at how the FareShare South West system operates, and

a report of that will appear here in our next Newsletter.

Were delighted to report that weve been awarded amonetary grant from the Church Urban Fund and this will

help us to get our project off the ground.

The subject of Food Waste is at the very top of our agenda

at present but we also hope our charitable aims will go a

little way towards helping to relieve some hardship being

experienced during this recession whilst at the same time,

helping to reduce the amount of good food going to landfill.

Please watch this space for more developments on this

exciting new project!

Best wishes

ChristineChristine Reid

Chair

DCFA Board of Trustees

DCFA NEWS

UNDRAISER. This is a time-consuming task but an

extremely important one for us. Were urgently looking

for someone who has experience in this field of expertise to

help us in a voluntary capacity. Interested? Please contact

Geoff(details at the top of the page).

LYMOUTH FUNDRAISER GROUP. Christine and Geoff

attended a meeting of this rejuvenated group on

Thursday, 20th

January 2011. The meeting was well-

attended and there was a good exchange of ideas.

RESS RELEASE (JANUARY 2011). Geoff issued the Press

Release, on the evening of Thursday, 6th

January 2011.

More details on this further into our Newsletter.

ADIO DEVON INTERVIEW. Chloe AXFORD from BBC

Radio Devon interviewed Christine when she visited

the BBC Studios in Seymour Road recently. Chloe hasoffered us a repeat broadcast in four to six weeks time so

do please listen out! This interview was also broadcast on

Radio Cornwall.

OLUNTEERS. Individuals and organisations have been

coming forward to offer help. This is a direct result of

our Press Release and also our advertising in the Plymouth

Shopper. We

are of course

delighted with

this response as

we wouldnt beable to trade

without their

help! Were

particularly

looking forward

to the assistance

promised to us by Plymouth City College!

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DO YOU WISH TO VOLUNTEER WITH

DCFA?

Go on-line, download the

Application Form, complete thedetails, and submit it to Geoff.

DCFA MEETINGS

EBRUARY 2011. Our next Board Meeting will be held at

10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 1st

February 2011 at Catherine

Baptist Church in Plymouth. Any suggested items for

discussion should be sent to the Secretary (contact details

at the foot of the page).

UTURE MEETINGS. All future meetings will be scheduled

for 10.30 a.m. but are subject to change at short notice.

Tuesday, 1st

March 2011

- General Board Meeting (Exeter)

Tuesday, 12th

April 2011

- General Board Meeting (Truro)

Tuesday, 3rd

May 2011

- General Board Meeting (Plymouth)

Tuesday, 7th

June 2011


Tuesday, 5th

July 2011


Tuesday, 8th

November 2011

- Annual General Meeting (Plymouth

AY 2011 MEETING. Catherine Street Baptist Church

will not be available to us for our meeting on Tuesday,

3rd May 2011. Can anyone suggest a suitable alternative

venue that we might use? Please contact Geoff (details at

the top of Page 1).

NNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2011. Our AGM will be

held on Tuesday, 8th

November 2011 and were

already looking for one or

two Guest Speakers. Can

you help or do you know

someone that can? Please

contact Geoff (details at

the top of Page 1).

DCFA WEBSITEhttp://dcfa.webs.com

UR WEBMASTER. Friends & Supporters of DCFA

should know that were not paying for our website.

You should know that we have a volunteer who maintains it

without any monetary expenses on her part. This volunteer

is content to work away quietly in the background. She

doesnt make a living as a professional Webmaster andtherefore her work for DCFA isnt necessarily as smart as

others. Our webmaster is completely self-taught and only

started to learn all the web and graphic technicalities just a

few years ago from near zero experience.

But she helps us not only because she loves doing it but

because she believes in what DCFA is trying to achieve for

its community.

If anyone has any suggestions or comments

regarding our website then do please feel free to

inform the Newsletter Editor who will pass them

on to our Webmaster.

DOES YOUR ORGANISATION

PROVIDE

FREE MEALS OR FOOD PARCELS?

If your organisation would benefit

from receiving free food produce

then go on-line, download theApplication Form & Wish List,

complete the details, and submit it

to Geoff.

TRAINING & COURSES

ORKING WITH VOLUNTEERS. FREE E-Workshop to

help you get started. E-Workshops; a practical resource

for you to use at a time that best suits you.

Working with Volunteers. This E-workshop is available via

email and is in the form of a workbook. It is suitable for:

Voluntary groups and social enterprises that are managing orplanning to manage volunteers to deliver services.

Managers developing policies for recruitment and managementof volunteer workers.

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The workbook is designed to help your organisation

develop good management processes without having to

take time out of your working day to travel to an event.

Well send your FREE workbook via email and you can get

started straight away or in your own time. To obtain your

copy email:[email protected] ring on:

0845 519 5759.

Please provide us with your name, address, email and

telephone number and the name of your social enterprise

and well send your workbook via email.

If time is short and you cant attend one of our events these

E-workshops are just for you!

LYMOUTH THIRD SECTOR CONSORTIUM NETWORK

MEETING. The following Network meeting will take place

in January 2011:

Community Anchors Network:

Wednesday, 26th

January 2011, from 10 a.m. at the Tamar

View Community Complex, St. Budeaux, Plymouth.

If you would like to attend these networks please contact:

Nicola TRUSCOTT

Telephone: (01752) 201766

Email:

[email protected]

When making your reservations, please mention

you are a Friend & Supporter of DCFA.

LYMOUTH THIRD SECTOR CONSORTIUM

FREE Training Courses: February 2011.

PTSC has the following training sessions taking place in

February 2011 which are open to all staff and volunteers.

Numbers are limited for each course so please book early to

avoid any disappointment. Please remember to say that you

are a Friend or a Supporter of DCFA when you book.

Tuesday, 22nd

February 2011: Facilitation Skills

Provide an overview of facilitation, helping participants notice

the processes involved. This course will help participants

improve their performance in facilitating both informal and

formal meetings and small groups and larger meetings.

Wednesday, 23rd

February 2011: Tools for Development

Workers (High participation techniques and activities for

engaging people in groups or teams)

To provide development workers with some practical tools

which address some common issues groups or organisations

have to address and to help development workers gain some

creative techniques for working with the groups and

organisations they support.

All courses are free and refreshments are included.

To book a place please contact:

Nicola TRUSCOTT

Telephone: (01752) 201766

Email: [email protected]

OCIAL ENTERPRISE WORKSHOPS AND ONE-TO-ONE

BUSINESS ADVICE CLINICS. These workshops and clinics

are being offered FREE by Co-active Ltd.

Plymouth Workshops:Thursday, 17

thFebruary 2011:

Workshop Startup - Starting in Social Enterprise:

9.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Wednesday, 23rd

February 2011:

Workshop Masterclass - Finance for Growth:

10.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Plymouth advice clinics:

Book a one-hour slot for a clinic between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.:

Tuesday, 22nd

February 2011

Tuesday, 8th

March 2011

For more details and to book your place please contact:

Marie WHITE

Telephone: 0845 519 5759

(9.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays)

Business ServicesPO Box 36

Newton Abbot TQ13 0WP

Co-active Ltd Registered in England

(company registration no. 2050566)

Registered office:

26-28 Southernhay East,

Exeter EX1 1NS

http://www.co-active.org.uk

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WOULD YOUR ORGANISATION

BENEFIT FROM A TALK &

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION?

Are you a school, a charity, a faithgroup or some other organisation

needing to know more about DCFA?

We will come to you and give a brief

talk and PowerPoint Presentation to

tell you about our work.

Just contact Geoff...

contact details at the top of Page 1.

Book now!

OTHER NEWS

N ACT OF KINDNESS. The university I work for kindly

provides food for all the people attending their

conferences. It bothers me that they throw away all the

leftovers... so last week I asked if I could give them away.

There was a huge tray of yummy, healthy sandwiches left

and it would have been such a shame to see them thrown

away. The guy from catering even allowed me to borrow a

large tray to carry them on. I went looking for the homeless

guy that usually sits in front of our local supermarket. He

was sitting there reading and petting his dog on a blanket,

and was thrilled when I showed him the food. He had

nothing to carry the food in and offered to bring the tray

back the following week. Although we had never spoken

before I decided to trust him with it, and I was not

disappointed. He brought it back squeaky-clean yesterday

and we had a nice chat while sharing some oranges. This

has inspired me to share more with local homeless people.

Anonymous.

Also visit: http://www.helpothers.org/news.php

REEN PAPER ON GIVING. The following information

was received from the Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum:

TheCabinet Officehas published a newGiving Green Paper,

proposing new ways to

encourage people to give their

time and money to build a

stronger society.

Much has been made in the

media about plans to give

people the option of making

charitable donations when they

withdraw money from a cash

machine.

However, the Green Paper

includes a number of further

developed and potentially

important proposals including:

Community First Fund: A 50 million programme match-

funding contributions from local donors to support

neighbourhood groups, particularly those operating in areas

of significant deprivation.

An 42.5 million Volunteering infrastructure

programme providing brokerage and support to

volunteers and the organisations managing them.

Proposals to develop time banking using internet

technology.

The Green Paper is a public consultation to which anyone

with an interest may respond. Responses should be sent to

[email protected] Wednesday, 9th

March.

A white paper with firm policy proposals is expected in

Spring 2011.

DO YOU WISH TO BECOME A FRIEND

OF DCFA?

Go on-line, download the

Application Form, complete the

details and submit it to Geoff.

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RESPONSES TO OUR PRESS RELEASE

From: Michael at Intercom

To: Geoffrey READ

Geoffrey,

Many thanks for the Press Release... what a terrific project! We wish you

all the best, and I hope in due course (when there are local collection

centres) well be promoting it to our service-users and supporters.

All the best!

Michael

Dr Michael

Executive Director

From: david and kim

To: Geoffrey READ

Sent: Thu, 6 January, 2011 22:03:18

Subject: RE: DCFA: PRESS RELEASE

Happy New Year!

STAK would definitely be interested in anything that was on offer!

Sounds great.

Anything would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Kim

Fri, 7 January, 2011 10:35:15

Re: DCFA: PRESS RELEASE

From: wasteaction.org.uk

To: Geoffrey READ

Geoff,

New year greetings!

Cornwall Waste Action have put your press release on our website:

http://www.cornwallwasteaction.org.uk/as well as Twitter and FaceBook

page.

Regards.

Guy

From: GillTo: Geoffrey READ

Sent: Fri, 7 January, 2011 13:01:24

Subject: Re: DCFA: PRESS RELEASE

Dear Geoffrey,

Hope all is well with you and that this drums up some support for the

project.

Regards

Gill

Allen Lane Foundation

From: Purnima

To: Geoffrey READ

Sent: Fri, 7 January, 2011 16:52:50


Hi Geoff!

Thank you for this info. Although Im not a press person, I am very

motivated to join this venture as I believe in Food for all and that it is

possible. I pray daily to God to feed each and every stomach; and God tells

me there is an abundance already but it is human greed, cruelty,

mismanagement and food wastage that so many of our brothers and

sisters and children sleep hungry.

Thank you and good luck.

Purnima

From: John

To: Geoffrey READ

Sent: Sat, 8 January, 2011 9:28:07


Geoff,

I think this is terrific!

To have reached the point where you have set up your little company in

such a short time is quite outstanding.

John

Devon & Cornwall Refugee Support Council

From: Nicola Truscott

To: Geoffrey READ

Sent: Tue, 11 January, 2011 10:05:28


Dear Geoffrey,

Thank you for this PRESS RELEASE, i would like to confirm that we have

added this to the PTSC website as a News item.

Regards

Nicola Truscott

Consortium Admin Support Worker

Plymouth Third Sector Consortium

EW CITY CHARITY AIMS TO REDUCE FOOD POVERTY.The following article was

published in The Herald on

Tuesday, 18th

January 2011:

A CHARITY is being launched to save waste and reduce food

poverty in local communities.

The Plymouth-based Devon & Cornwall Food Association

(DCFA) is being formed to provide food to organisations

working with disadvantaged people.

Organisers, who are appealing for help to get the group on its

feet, hope it will eventually become a franchise of FareShare

UK.FareShare UK is a nationwide charity which takes surplus fit-

for-purpose products from the food and drink industry.

It redistributes it to organisations working with disadvantaged

people in the community, such as homeless shelters.

Geoff READ, DCFA volunteer, said: "Every year millions of

tonnes of first-class food ends up in landfill sites.

"At the same time, even in this modern day and age, there are

thousands of people, including many children, living in poverty

in the UK.

"FareShare is operated nationally throughout the UK and our

nearest set-up is located at Bristol.

"Our group aims to extend the area of this operation into

Devon and Cornwall."

Food which is still in-date will be collected from the FareShare

Depot in Bristol and directly from other local outlets in Devon

and Cornwall on a regular basis and then distributed to those

organisations serving vulnerable and needy people.

Mr. READ said: "Initially we intend to travel to Bristol to collect

a supply of food to distribute weekly, but the longer term aim

is to obtain storage facilities in Plymouth and make Plymouth

the main hub of our operation.

"At this stage, cold hard cash is the main stumbling block.

"The company is urgently seeking funds to hire a transit van on

a weekly basis to make the journey to Bristol and back.

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The

Devon & Cornwall

Food Association

Ltd.

(DCFA)

7, Whimple Street, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2DH

Mobile: 07745819828 (text only)

Telephone: (01752) 563800

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://dcfa.webs.com

"Perhaps there is a commercial company in Plymouth that

could help us out with this? Additionally we need a small

warehouse or storage and distribution facility... initially for just

one day per week."

The company is run by volunteers and is looking for more

people to join the team for driving, food handling and food

distribution, fundraising and various administrative tasks.

Anyone able to help can contact Company Secretary Mr. READ

on 07745 819828 or [email protected]

For further information, visitwww.dcfa.webs.com.

EEDY IN DEVON AND CORNWALL TO BE GIVEN SURPLUS

FOOD. The following text is taken from theBBCwebsite

following a broadcast on Radio Devon &

Radio Cornwall on Tuesday, 18th

and

Thursday, 20th

January 2011:

The charity organisers hope

supermarkets will donate

food...

A new charity is aiming to

reduce food waste and help

disadvantaged people inDevon and Cornwall.

The Plymouth-based Devon &

Cornwall Food Association

(DCFA) wants local

supermarkets and producers

to donate food destined for

landfill.

It will then redistribute it to homeless shelters and food banks.

Organisers said local charities were struggling to find enough

food for people in need because of the economic climate.

Christine REID, from DCFA, said: "Theres deemed to be a lot of

poverty in Devon and Cornwall because of low wages and highunemployment.

"The aim of this project is to alleviate food waste.

"We're getting good food that would otherwise be thrown

away."

She said the charity would be able to use food coming up to its

sell-by date.

'No storage'

Fellow organiser Geoff READ said two food producers in

Cornwall had already agreed to donate food.

But he said a lack of resources meant the charity would have to

move slowly at first.

Mr. READ said: "We have no storage, we need a warehouse,

chillers, vehicles, volunteers and money."

DCFA is eventually hoping to become a franchise of FareShare

UK, a nationwide charity carrying out similar work.

At the moment the nearest FareShare operation is in Bristol.

Earlier this month Don GARDNER, a FoodBank organiser from

Cornwall, warned the number of people in the county facing

hunger could rise significantly.

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