7th March 2012

WEST DORSET: Social enterprise wins new contract

Local Food Links, a social enterprise in Dorset, has secured a new contract with Dorset County Council to provide meals to two day care centres.

Local Food Links will supply meals to a day centre for older people in Lyme Regis, and another in Bridport which provides care for adults with learning disabilities.

In 2009 the scheme received almost £300,000 in funding to support their development of a catering service for older people which included initiatives such as lunch clubs, cookery workshop, meals on wheels and provision for day centres.

The funding came from Local Food, a £57.5 million programme supported by the Big Lottery Fund, which supports food-related community projects right across the country.

Local Food Links has had no previous involvement with adults with learning disabilities. It is also a boost for the long-term sustainability of the scheme.

Caroline Morgan, Assistant Director of Local Food Links, said: “We are delighted to have won these contracts, which mean that our work with older and vulnerable people is secure for the long term.

“We are very pleased that DCC have chosen to support a local, fresh meals supplier, showing that food quality is an important part of daycare provision.”

It also holds a regular programme of cookery workshops for the over 50s at its training kitchen in Bridport. Operating from two hub kitchens in Bridport and Blandford Forum, it serves more than 1,000 meals a day and was the first school caterer to be awarded a Gold Mark Catering Award by the Food for Life Partnership.

WEST DORSET: Social enterprise wins new contract

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