Cornwall Community Food and Composting (CCFC) is a partnership between Cornwall Waste Action (CWA), Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change (CN4C) and the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG). The project will raise the profile and importance of local food production and composting within the community network areas surrounding Falmouth, Penzance, Truro, St Austell, Newquay, Bodmin, Liskeard, Launceston and Saltash. The project is funded by the Big Lottery Fund as part of its Local Food programme.
CWA offers free training and support to local people to become Compost Mentors: volunteers who encourage and help members of their community to compost. All volunteers are invited to attend a free, 1/2 day workshop and are given a free compost bin and kitchen caddy. Once they have attended the workshop they begin to mentor their friends, family, colleagues or neighbours. Households who receive mentoring and help from the volunteers to start composting will also receive free compost bins and kitchen caddies.
This is an attractive and rewarding project as it proposes immediate, achievable aims and offers people the opportunity to make a real difference. Composting reduces home waste so drastically that you notice it instantly! It also encourages people to look after their soil and grow their own food, which is both satisfying and healthy.
Notes from some Compost Mentors
For more information about the project click here
Compost Mentor Newsletter Summer 2011
Compost Mentor Newsletter Winter 2011
