The Devon & Cornwall Food Association held its first annual general meeting. It provided an opportunity to look back on the organization's achievements in the past year and look ahead to an exciting future with greater confidence. Several volunteers also participated in a tour of a local energy plant. Upcoming events include a Plymouth social enterprise day and food safety training courses. The newsletter provides updates on DCFA activities and local food-related news.

1. The Devon & Cornwall Food Association Ltd (DCFA)
NEWSLETTER
November - December 2011
Patron: Judi Spiers, BBC Radio Devon Spare Food is Share Food!
7 Whimple Street, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2DH Mobile: 07745819828 (text only) Email: saudigeoff@yahoo.co.uk Website: http://dcfa.webs.com
FOREWORD EDITORIAL COMMENT
BY THE COMPANY CHAIR
Mrs. Christine REID I NTERNET Links. If you’re reading this on-line and come
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Dear Friends and Supporters,
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DCFA has just held its first Annual General Meeting at the If you read this on Microsoft Word, you can put your cursor
Crown Centre in Plymouth. over the link, hold down the Control (Ctrl) Key and click! Ed.
It was an opportunity to share with our Friends and the
Supporters our work the achievements of DCFA over the PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
past for the past year. It was also a chance to look to the
future. An exciting future it will be too and DCFA can now
look ahead with greater confidence.
W E HAVE NO Celebrations In November. Have we
missed anyone?
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We used this occasion to meet and greet Victoria HURTH, APPY BIRTHDAY TO Dave MCCABE for Thursday, 8
the DCFA Project Coordinator (designate). Victoria shared December 2011. Dave is a Friend of DCFA and a volunteer
with us her past experiences and her plans for the future of waiting to give us help! Dave has volunteered the use of his van
DCFA. as and when we need it. Thanks Dave and have a lovely day!
Our Guest Speaker was Anna HOYLE who was formerly the
Strategic Development Manager of the East Cornwall Council
for Voluntary Services (ECCVS). Sadly this organisation ceased
B EST WISHES FOR a Happy Birthday to Ronald G.
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SANDFORD for Thursday, 8 December 2011. Ron is a one
of our Milk Team volunteers taking receipt of and delivering
trading the day before! Anna spoke of the value of
our milk each and every week. Thanks Ron and have a great
communities and the involvement of committed persons in
day!
our communities. Anna said she drew her inspiration from
such people. Anna was herself inspirational in her talk and I
feel she instilled in us agreater confidence for the future. DCFA MEETINGS
It was good to see so many Friends and Supporters at our
first AGM and I thank you all for attending.
Especial thanks to Maria MILLS and Staff of the Crown
N OVEMBER 2011 Meeting took the form of DCFA’s first
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Annual General Meeting and was held on Tuesday, 1 at
The Crown Centre in Plymouth.
Centre for allowing us to use their newly-refurbished
premises and for feeding us so well!
Finally my personal thanks to all DCFA Trustees and Co- N EXT MEETING. The next DCFA Board Meeting will be on
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Tuesday, 6 December 2011 at The Shekinah Mission in
Bath Street, Plymouth. This meeting will start at 10.30 a.m.
opted Members to the Board for their commitment and
support to DCFA. And a big thank you too for all our DCFA and will be followed by Christmas Drinks & Mince Pies.
Volunteers!
F UTURE MEETINGS. All meetings are scheduled to start at
10.30 a.m. at the Catherine Street Baptist Church unless
Christine stated otherwise. But this information is subject to change at
short notice!
Christine REID  January, March, May 2012 NO MEETING
Chair  Tuesday, 7th February 2012 General Board Meeting
 Tuesday, 3rd April 2012 General Board Meeting
DCFA Board of Trustees
 Tuesday, 5th June 2012 General Board Meeting
The Devon & Cornwall Food Association Ltd. (DCFA) is a Private Company Limited by Guarantee.
Registered Company No. 07419679.
Registered Charity No. - DCFA is recognised by HMRC as a Charity for tax purposes under Reference XT27083.
Members of : Our Funder:
NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations) – Membership No. MEMBERVC/13004,
CASAP (Community &Social Action Plymouth),
The Small Charities Coalition,
And Volunteering England – Membership No.1278747. … And Voluntary Donations.

2. Overview
THE DCFA TRIP TO
Food hygiene and safety training providers have identified a
LANGAGE ENERGY PARK growing need to make food safety learning more relevant
S EVERAL OF OUR DCFA volunteers took part in a trip to
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Langage Energy Park on Monday, 3 October 2011 where
we were joined by some members of the
to specific business environments to increase effectiveness.
Reflecting sector-specific needs these food safety
qualifications are required to address new National
Plymouth Laryngectomy Club (PLC). We Occupational Standards. In line with this demand, the CIEH
were given a guided tour of the plant and Level 2 Awards in Food Safety have been designed to
an extremely interesting presentation by address the food safety and hygiene needs of the catering,
Mr. Roy BAILEY, the Operations Manager manufacturing and retail sectors.
of Centrica Energy. Roy made it a really Outline Programme
fun time... even though what they produce is a very serious The qualifications cover the following topics:
business. That was obvious when we had to get dressed up in
hard hats and fluorescent jackets.  Legislation
 Food safety and hygiene hazards
 Temperature control
MEDIA SPEEDMATCHING  Refrigeration, chilling and cold holding
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HRISTINE REID and GEOFF READ spent an evening at a
Media Speedmatching Event in Exeter on Wednesday
28 September 2011. The event was organised by the Small
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Cooking, hot holding and reheating
Food handling
Principles of safe food storage
Charities Commission in partnership with the Media Trust.  Cleaning
So what is speedmatching? It’s a bit like speed-dating. Ten  Food premises and equipment
charities and ten media professionals from the charity and Congratulations to all those who attended and our especial
corporate sectors. Each charity gets five minutes to speak thanks to ECCVS.
to each professional and get on-the-spot advice or ideas
where possible about any kind of media / communications PLYMOUTH
issue or challenge you might have, for example, getting
local media coverage, improving your publicity materials or
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DAY
giving your charity a rebrand, etc. If a charity wants to work
with a particular professional further, they’d mark this on P LYMOUTH SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Day takes place on
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Thursday, 17 November 2011 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at
Plymouth University. There will be a small exhibition of
their match card and if their professional requests to work
with them too, we’ll put them in touch. social enterprises including:
All this plus drinks, nibbles and a friendly atmosphere, FotoNow,
absolutely free of charge! North Prospect Garage Project,
Memory matters,
We made a few useful friends and so the networking goes on! Locality,
Cosmic,
University of Plymouth-Business School,
PLYMOUTH Devon & Cornwall Food Association,
FUNDRAISER GROUP MEETING Janner Jam,
Plymouth Social Enterprise Network.
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EOFF READ ATTENDED a Group Meeting on Tuesday, 25
October 2011 at Routeways in Devonport. Christopher There will also be a series of clinic’s that can be booked on
LAING of the Big Lottery Fund was the Guest Speaker and gave subjects such as:
a very interesting presentation. If anyone wishes to know legal structures,
more about this Group then please contact: Paul READ at social media for social enterprises and
pread@routeways.org.uk marketing for your social enterprise.
The Main event will include Speakers:
CIEH LEVEL-2 AWARDS IN FOOD SAFETY Hilary DUCKETT
S EVEN DCFA MEMBERS attended a course of instruction
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at Lanivet, Cornwall on Thursday, 27 October 2011.
This course, which was run by the East Cornwall Council for
Plymouth University Business School,
Julie HAWKER
RISE & Project COSMIC
and more…
Voluntary Services (ECCVS) was run free of charge to DCFA.
The course was attended by: This event is accessible to people with disabilities.
For further information please contact:
Gitty ANKERS, Jackie BARNETT, Phil BARNETT, Mary CONWAY,
Geoff READ, George TRICKER, and Ron SANDFORD. dave@plymsocent.org.uk
Each earned a Food Hygiene Certificate... a CIEH Level-2
Award in Food Safety in Catering.
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3. AN ARTICLE BY HAZEL ALEXANDER OTHER NEWS
DCFA Co-opted Member to the Board of Trustees
E AST CORNWALL COUNCIL FOR Voluntary Services (ECCVS).
DCFA was saddened to read on the ECCVS website that
I T’S AT THIS TIME of year I always put one or two extra items
in my shopping trolley each week to go into my ‘Christmas
cupboard’. This, combined with food-related gifts, and that
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they were to cease operations on Sunday, 31 October 2011.
Several DCFA volunteers have been fortunate enough to have
frantic last minute just-in-case shop I always feel the need to received free courses of instruction from this very important
do, all add up to an awful lot of food in the house. I’m lucky outlet and we are so sorry to see it all end. Our sincere thanks
because I can buy these extras, but for some, just getting the go to Ms. Anna HOYLE, the Strategic Development Manager
food basics is difficult. Fortunately there are some fantastic and also to Mr. Dave PHILLIPS, CIEH Food Safety Instructor.
organisations working to provide subsidised food and meals in
Plymouth and DCFA has been working hard to get additional
supplies to these organisations and keep perfectly good food T HE PLYMOUTH THIRD Sector Consortium (PTSC). DCFA
is a member of this consortium which has now changed
its name to Community & Social Action
out of landfill.
I know that some of this extra food I’m buying will end up in Plymouth (CASAP). And it changed its
the bin, and through being a Friend of DCFA I’m now also logo at the same time. This means that
aware of how much food manufacturers are putting in their DCFA will have to update all its
bins. We have a range of information available to explain documentation accordingly.
what’s going to waste and why, and what can be done to
change that, including a website, brochures, talks and rolling
presentations. Whilst we are always looking for volunteers to
R EAL FOOD STORE for Plymouth City Centre?
Food Plymouth partnership invite you
to join them for a Public Meeting from 6.30
take on some of the practical tasks that keep DCFA going, we th
to 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 November
also need people to get the message out about food waste. 2011 in the Buckland Suite on the Third Floor
Looking at some of our information and talking to friends and of the Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth (next to
family about it is a little extra that you can do that can Sainsbury’s at top of Armada Way).
potentially add up to a lot of people knowing about what DCFA Refreshments will be provided.
are trying to do.
What’s it all about?
Hazel ALEXANDER An opportunity to have your say and get involved at this initial
Co-opted Member to the DCFA Board of Trustees consultation stage of developing a new community-owned,
local food shop and café, at the heart of Plymouth’s city centre.
The Founders of The Real Food Store in Exeter will be joining us
to share their experiences.
For all enquiries please contact:
Jeany ROBINSON:
Mobile : 07403 984 632
jrobinson@edenproject.com,
info@foodplymouth.org
www.foodplymouth.org
Spare Food is Share Food.
A DELIGHTFUL ANALOGY
Come join DCFA!
W HEN WE GAVE a PowerPoint Presentation to a faith
group at the Hope Baptist Church in Plymouth recently,
one of them said to us...
Stop good food from ending up at landfill sites!
“DCFA is getting the bits of grain Talk to DCFA on Facebook
that fall off the wheat plant...
just in the same way as the poor Follow DCFA on Twitter
people used to do in biblical
times!”.
View DCFA on LinkedIn
So very true!
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4. AGM PHOTOGRAPHS
Original photographs (pdf) courtesy of Jon Hardy. Download the pdf (size : 6.92 MB, from mediafire.com)
Display in newsletter by Kanda P.
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