Contributed article – Edible Edinburgh Festival
– with FEEDING THE 5000
Noon-4pm Sat 5th Oct 2013
Bristo Square and Potterrow
There is such a thing as a free lunch and we will prove it to you! On Saturday 5th October , from 12 noon until 4pm, you can be one of 5000 people who will share in a delicious and completely free meal! All you have to do is come along to Edinburgh’s Bristo Square, outside McEwan Hall. The special thing about the meal is that will have been created by volunteers, celebrity chefs and community groups from ingredients that would otherwise would have been thrown away.
This will be the very first time that Scotland has hosted a Feeding the 5000 event (http://www.feeding5k.org) and follows events in cities around the world including London, Sydney and New York.
This event is being co-ordinated by Edible Edinburgh in close co-operation with several partners including the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Students’ Association , the City of Edinburgh Council ,Zero Waste Scotland and Nourish Scotland.
The festival will raise the public’s awareness of the whole food agenda and provide everyone with an opportunity to contribute to a big conversation about what sort of food strategy we would like for Edinburgh in the coming years and decades.
You can find out more about Edible Edinburgh at: http://www.edible-edinburgh.org
If you would like to volunteer, there are 3 different volunteering opportunities. Please apply through EUSA’s volunteering website to the volunteer role that you would like to take on using the links below.
NOTE: If you are not a student at the University of Edinburgh then you will NOT be able to apply through EUSA volunteering website but look at the different roles listed and instead please e-mail sustainability.department@ed.ac.uk with a short application including your:
1. Name
2. Which role you are interested in
3. Availability for that role
4. Whether you can attend the training if applicable for that role
5. E-mail address
6. Phone number.
3 Volunteer Roles:
Social researcher – http://volunteering.eusa.ed.ac.uk/positions/836/
Steward – http://volunteering.eusa.ed.ac.uk/positions/846/
Practical volunteer (setting up the event) – http://volunteering.eusa.ed.ac.uk/positions/847/
If you need further information about the event, please email mailto:F5K@nourishscotland.org.uk
We hope that you will join us on 5th October in Bristo Square for this exciting event!
Submitted by Nourish Scotland
