The Nurture Academy.

The End Hunger initiative is a Cedarwood Trust initiative to ensure every person in North Shields has the opportunity to have a free hot meal should they need to due to financial hardship. 

The End Hunger initiative is delivered by volunteers and students from the Nurture Academy. All of which live on the Meadow Well Estate, gaining much needed experience and employ-ability skills knowledge. Each student is offered a real working environment placement to gain real time experience and a interview to provide feedback and reference, which is aimed to kick-start a students ambition to enter the catering and hospitality sector. 

The academy supports the day-to-day delivery of Cedarwood Centre Café, prepares external buffet catering and prepares up to 40 free meals, five days a week. All the meals are prepared fresh in a professional kitchen with a healthier cooking process. Many of the ingredients supplied by working in partnership with The Bay Foodbank.

By the end of September we aim to move to seven days provision of free meals. By providing a frozen meal selection, freshly cooked and frozen by the academy. Which will be available for collection on a Friday to combat weekend and bank holiday Hunger.

In the first month of current delivery 248 free meals have been eaten by families and people in food poverty. Additionally 350kg of ingredients supplied by the amazing Bay Foodbank have been diverted from food waste and landfill. And for every £10 giving in donations or grant funding, enables the academy to provide 14 meals. 

Aiming to produce great food that changes lives.

As the Nurturing Academy develops, The Cedarwood Trust aims to seek further funding to develop a specialist team around the meal provision. To support people in accessing appropriate supports and interventions that significantly improve a mother, father and child's life.

We can end hunger.

By providing access to a meal people's immediate Hunger need is met. By providing interventions that resolve people's underlying need we can End Hunger.​