We’re Growing More Than Mushrooms, We’re Supporting Our Communities Too!
Dear Fungalists 🍄🤟
At the heart of our business there’s a simple belief that growing food should also help grow stronger communities. Over the past year, we’ve been proud to support a number of inspiring organisations that use food, fungi, and community to create opportunities, improve wellbeing, and connect people to nourishing food and nature!
Here are a few of the incredible groups we’re honoured to work alongside.
GROW at The Totteridge Academy
GROW is an agroecological farm based at The Totteridge Academy in North London. The farm cultivates seasonal food for the school and the surrounding community while creating opportunities for people to learn, connect, and experience growing first-hand.
In 2021, GROW collaborated with mycologist Darren Le Baron to develop the UK’s first Mushroom Cultivation & Mycology AQA qualification. Since launching, more than 70 at-risk young people in Barnet have earned an AQA certification in fungi — gaining practical knowledge, confidence, and a new perspective on food, science, and the natural world.
Community Champignons – Govanhill Baths Community Trust
Community Champignons is part of the Govanhill Baths Community Trust’s men’s wellbeing programme. Through mushroom cultivation and shared learning, the project creates a welcoming space where people can connect, build skills, and support their mental health.
Working alongside the People’s Pantry, the programme also runs mushroom growing workshops that help community members learn how to grow their own food, develop new interests, and build confidence in a supportive environment.
Grounded Community – Boscombe, Bournemouth
Grounded Community is a charity dedicated to ensuring everyone has access to healthy, nutritious food. Their work centres around growing, sharing, and redistributing food across their local community.
They cultivate fruit and vegetables, teach practical growing skills, redistribute surplus food from gardens and businesses, and build networks of people who store and share homegrown produce. By connecting people through food, Grounded Community helps strengthen resilience and knowledge across the community.
The Friendly Food Club focuses on empowering people to build a positive relationship with food. Through workshops and community support, they help individuals develop the confidence and skills to prepare nutritious, delicious meals.
Their work shows how access to knowledge, ingredients, and community can transform people’s health, wellbeing, and everyday lives.
Why This Matters to Us
Mushrooms are about more than food, they’re about connection. Whether it’s connecting people to nature, to each other, or to new skills and opportunities, fungi have an incredible ability to bring communities together.
Supporting organisations like these is one small way we can help cultivate that connection and contribute to a healthier, more resilient food system.
Thank you for being part of a community that believes in growing good food and doing good at the same time.
If you’re involved with a similar organisation and would like to partner with Jurassic Coast Mushrooms for growing supplies and more, please don’t hesitate to get in touch to see what we can offer 🙌
Warmly,
Andy & Sam @ Jurassic Coast Mushrooms