insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 21 - November 2016 | Page 111

BUSINESS Why did you choose to start a cafe in Brighton? Simply because it’s where I live and I love living here. What does the future hold for The Real Junk Food Project? At the moment, we work out of various churches and community centres across Brighton. We are still searching for our own premises, so that we can serve food seven days a week and provide a safe, welcoming space to the community all year round. We’re launching ‘Fuel for School’ in Brighton soon too, which is an initiative to prevent hunger from being a barrier to learning in schools. With child poverty being as high as 25 percent in some areas - that’s one in four kids coming to school hungry - children are expected to try and learn and concentrate without the fuel to do so. We provide the school with access to food that would otherwise be wasted and teach kids about the food waste issue: why we shouldn’t waste it, how to cook healthy food, how to grow food, what composting is, and how to live sustainably. That way, we can teach the future generations not to be as wasteful as we have been. Education is the solution to this problem and we’d like to roll this out to every school in Brighton and Hove. Eventually, we’ll feed the world, but even that won’t scratch the surface of global food waste. Two billion tonnes of food is wasted on this planet every year and eight hundred million people are hungry – so there would still be plenty left over. The Real Junk Food Project Brighton [email protected] www.realjunkfoodbrighton.co.uk @realjunkfoodBri /realjunkfoodbrighton realjunkfoodbrighton 111