Romsey Good Food Neighbourhood

There are two ways you can apply for an allotment in your neighbourhood. You can either apply through Cambridge City Council for a plot on one of the allotments they manage or apply for a plot which is ran by a local allotment society. Visit Cambridge Allotments Network to find your closest allotment.

Growing Spaces is ran by Transition Cambridge, aiming to reclaim unloved and underused public spaces around the city and transform them into edible landscapes. Find out more about how to get involved in your local growing space here.

Romsey Community Garden is ran by transition Cambridge. Garden Days usually take place in the afternoon on either a Saturday or a Sunday, and volunteers drop in and out whenever they like. Most of the garden activity occurs during the Summer, but it is still a nice place to still in winter time.

The Edge Cafe Community Food Hub operates every morning except Sundays, saving tonnes of surplus food from landfill.

Cambridge SDA Church run the Hobart Road Soup Kitchen, serving the local community every Monday.

Cambridge SDA Food Hub operates every Sunday morning.

The C3 Church run a Friday Lunch Club, Community Fridge and Social Supermarket from their Coldham’s Lane site. Find out more here under food support.

Our Cookback Kitchen is based at St Philip’s Church in Romsey, turning surplus food into delicious meals on Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you’d like to volunteer with food preparation, keep an eye out on the volunteer section of our website or email volunteer@cambridgesustainablefood.org.

Phils People is a small community meal which takes place every on the second Monday of every month at St Philip’s Church. It has been running for years and is mostly attended by vulnerable adults from the Romsey community.

Sainsburys, Coop, Tesco and Well Cambridge all accept healthy start vouchers to help pay for milk, fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables, fresh, dried, and tinned pulses, infant formula milk and vitamins.

Visit the Cambridge Sustainable Food Directory to find the sustainable food businesses operating in and around your neighbourhood.

To keep up to date with what good food focused events are happening in your neighbourhood keep an eye on the events section of the CSF website.