This session is for Better Food Traders Members and Map Members only. Become a member of Better Food Traders.
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Are you a Better Food Trader working on a social prescribing project? Curious about how working with your local health services might help your retail enterprise achieve its goals and reach more people? Join us for a peer-learning session designed to support you in your retail enterprise's journey with delivering produce, products or activities via social prescriptions. Hear from Better Food Traders who have recently started to work with their local GPs, nurses or other primary care professionals to begin social prescribing.
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The role of independent food retailers in social prescribing
Whilst community food growing spaces have long been involved in this kind of work (see Sustain’s 2019 research Social prescribing and London’s community garden and food growing sector as one example), retailers and traders are also playing a role.
In this session, we’ll hear from two Better Food Traders about how social prescribing has enabled them to innovate new products, bring in new regular income, develop new partnerships, and crucially, play a vital role in supporting the community.
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What will we do in this session?
We are keen to learn more about how retailers can play their part in providing social prescribing schemes, and what benefits social prescribing can bring to independent, agroecological food traders. Join us to learn from other traders doing this work and share your experience with a group of like minded retailers.
In this informal, 1-hour Lunch and Learn session, we’ll hear from two Better Food Traders about their journey to provide weekly veg boxes, meal kits and volunteering opportunities on prescription, including:
We'll then open up for a conversation as a group, during which you can ask questions, share your ideas for feedback and discuss all things social prescribing.
