Lesley Curtis - Food and Health Develpment Worker / Edible Edinburgh Co-ordinator

Lesley is a Registered Associate Nutritionist and has worked part-time as a Food and Health Development Worker at Edinburgh Community Food since September 2018.  She currently runs Food Friends at Viewpoint Housing, a cooking group for older adults which aims to raise the awareness of malnutrition and reduce social isolation.  Lesley also works in partnership with The Willow Centre to run their Next Healthy Steps programme for women in the criminal justice system.

From March 2019, Lesley has also been the Edinburgh Sustainable Food cities Co-ordinator.  This is a city-wide role where she is responsible for driving the delivery of the Edinburgh Sustainable Food City Action Plan with the aim of making Edinburgh an exemplar Sustainable Food City.  Her role has helped the Edible Edinburgh partnership work towards achieving the Sustainable Food Cities Bronze award in June 2019.

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Telephone: 0131 467 7326