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
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