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About ECFI

Edinburgh Community Food Initiative (ECFI) is a citywide, community-based charity, and company limited by public guarantee. The project is managed by a Board of Directors, the members of which have an active connection to local community food activities, or have related experience or expertise in this field. ECFI is a food and health project that works throughout the city to help address the barriers to better health through good diet. Taking health inequalities as its starting point, ECFI operates a number of projects in a range of settings aimed at enabling people to better understand and more easily achieve the means to a healthier diet.

The project’s aim is to enable health improvement in relation to poor diet, particularly for people living in low-income areas.

ECFI has a combined office and warehouse unit in Leith.

The project was launched in 1996 using grant funding that had been secured by community activists involved in local food co-ops.

A partnership arrangement between the City of Edinburgh Council and Lothian NHS Board provides basic funding for ECFI. A number of other funding partners including Sure Start, the Craigmillar Partnership and Community Regeneration Forums in Leith and Lochend and additional funding from CEC Children and Families Department enables the project to run its range of specialist programmes.

If you need to contact us:
T: 0131 467 7326
F: 0131 467 7325
E: info@ecfi.org.uk