Edinburgh Community Food Initiative (ECFI) works with local communities to improve health and reduce health inequalities by tackling the barriers to a healthy diet. ECFI provides access to affordable healthy food and currently supports 16 community food co-ops across the city that provide high quality low cost fruit and vegetables, backed up with a full range of health promotional activities.

As a city wide project working in areas of greatest need, the project is able to implement and inform actions relating to national and local targets and priorities around food and health.

Snack Attack
The Happy Jack project is funded by Sure Start and works in the 12 Children and Family Centres across the city. The project supplies fruit and vegetables for consumption within the centres and gives a free 5-a-day bag to the children to take home. Full development work is also included within the project, including cooking classes for the parents of the children.