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This month's topic will be on food sustainability.

6:30 Doors open, networking.

7:00 Presentations from

Olio (http://olioex.com/) - App which connects neighbours with each other and with local shops and cafes so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away.

Plan Zheroes (https://planzheroes.org/#!/) - Connecting food businesses, charities and volunteers to donate surplus food. Businesses upload information of surplus food, nearby charities receive notification of available food, volunteers and transporters in local area help transport the food.

Aker (https://aker.me/) - Open source urban farming kits to green your city and produce local food. There are designs for multi level plant beds, vertical planters with removable modules, chicken coop, beehive and worm composters.

Too Good To Go (http://toogoodtogo.co.uk/) - App to buy surplus food leftover from restaurants, cafes and bakeries, and collect from the restaurants.

City Farm Systems (http://www.city-farm-systems.com/) - A commercially viable and sustainable facility for the growing of the most perishable and hardest to transport fresh produce by growing produce on rooftops of food retailers using a modular automated system.

Lend and Tend (http://www.lendandtend.com/) - Matching the 1000s of people who are keen to join allotments and people living in flats without gardens with the people who have an outdoor space that needs maintaining, tending and even grow produce.

9:00 Networking.

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