Liverpool Food For Real Film Festival, 21 – 24 Nov

The Liverpool Food For Real Film Festival – the only festival of its kind in the UK – is to return for a second annual outing from 21-24 November 2013. Curated by social food enterprise Squash Nutrition, the festival seeks to explore the environmental, cultural and political impacts of the foods we grow, eat, waste and share. This …

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Manchester search for women social entrepreneurs

Manchester is seeking a group of fifty women to become the city’s next wave of social entrepreneurs. Manchester City Council has agreed to support Make A Wave, which aims to train 250 women UK-wide to become social business leaders and start their own projects to bring significant benefits to their communities. Manchester will host a …

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One hundred acts of Blackpool kindness

A quest to create 100 acts of kindness during November has been set up by Blackpool Fairness Commission, with anybody welcome to lend a hand. Chair of the Commission, Dr Arif Rajpura, will get the campaign going with the first act of kindness – giving up his time to go digging with Groundwork’s community food growing scheme, ‘Grow Blackpool’. Arif …

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