Feeding Norfolk
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A message from Delia Smith takes the Food Programme team to Norfolk to see how a network of social supermarkets is helping people out of food poverty.
Nourishing Norfolk, is a project linking a large number of smaller shops, or food hubs around the county. The shops use the "social supermarket" model, providing free fruit and vegetables and cut price food and many other essentials including cleaning and hygiene products, and smokeless coal.
During the team's tour, they hear how being linked has given the hubs more buying power, and they have been able to team up with more local businesses who are able to help - by offering warehouse space, larger scale donations and even logistics.
The hub volunteers then have more time to do what they are good at; offering support, guidance and community to those who need it.
Since the shops are all independently run, they are also able to try out and develop ways that can help with the specific problems faced by people in poverty in their area, which has included the setting up of a mobile food hub.
Delia wrote how she had been blown away by the work that is happening there - where people are not only being provided with affordable food, but also help and assistance at all levels.
Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced in Bristol for BBC Audio by Natalie Donovan
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| 0:45.8 | that our country has become unhinged. |
| 0:49.1 | The UK's most famous and lauded cookery writer thinks so. She pointed us to Norfolk to see the problem |
| 0:56.5 | and the overwhelming community action that's grown up in response to that painful reality and that's what this edition of the food |
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| 1:10.9 | In January I had an unexpected email. find it |
| 1:15.0 | began. |
| 1:18.0 | when I told you I wanted to be able to reach out to people undergoing the food crisis |
| 1:22.0 | what I realized is that recipes don't help people |
| 1:25.0 | when they have no cooking equipment whatsoever. |
| 1:28.0 | I'd not understood the scale of the poverty we're now dealing with. |
| 1:33.0 | However, last week I visited an amazing project in Norfolk |
| 1:36.0 | where they're reaching out to the very poorest people |
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