Good Food Matters

Tue, Sep 12th 2017 at 1:00 pm -

Today we welcome Evelyn Findlater, Chief Executive and Founder
of Good Food Matters, a Community Food Learning Centre in New Addington.

The Centre’s facilities include a large, fully equipped cookery teaching building, over an acre of land for growing food, two large greenhouses, a world-food polytunnel, a forest garden area with pond, and an apiary boasting six beehives.

The Centre gives the whole community the opportunity to learn how to grow food sustainably and cook healthy, nutritious and balanced meals.

Croydon is one of only two local authorities to successfully bid to become a London
Food Flagship borough. Good Food Matters www.goodfoodmatters.org.uk was granted funds to enable it to forward the aims of the Food Flagship programme, which are
“to help reduce childhood obesity, increase school attainment and reduce the numbers of new cases of type-2 diabetes”.

After 10 years of dedication and perseverance in establishing Good Food Matters, Evelyn was made an MBE for her services to education.

Evelyn Findlater can be seen, pictured right, with Carol Short, Chair of GFM Trustees.