What Edgeryders does and how you can get involved

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Thanks @noemi

@nadia also

Have aimed to combine both with other feedback what do you think of the below?

Hello Name,

Thanks for registering to the online session which will take place next week, Wednesday 3 June at 17:30 CEST (Brussels time). You will receive the link to the zoom call a day before the event.

Meet Name, my co-host! We are both food entrepreneurs based in Brussels and together we will share information from the Belgian food scene and abroad, and think about how communities can support food projects.

We are looking forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our event. Before I go any further, let me tell you a little about Edgeryders - the group that puts these events together.

We are a not-for-profit organisation that supports our members in creating self-sustaining projects that contribute to a common good. We grew out of a project funded by the Council of Europe in 2011. Since then we have watched our community swell to 6000 registered users and 70,000 posts - we have shared ideas and solutions, built new businesses together and some of our community have even fallen in love.

When you join Edgeryders you become part of a community where every time someone shares or posts about a project, like minded peers offer advice or connect it with new information that supports the work of that person. Often it evolves into collaborative projects.

We build a deep experience that no small group or individual could reach on their own through our dense networks. Having a dense network gives you access to expertise, resources, skill sharing and financing.

We join ideas and people to each other, to other knowledge, skills and resources, which means the members of our community gain a richer knowledge and understanding of the issue they wish to tackle and have a blueprint to put their idea into action.

So, ahead of XXX event, we ask that you join the Edgeryders community by signing up here. Introduce yourself to our community in a New Topic in our Campfire and answer some of these questions:

• what kind of solutions do you see that are being tried? are there interesting success stories amidst struggle?

• is localisation something that can have an actual impact? will it be able to feed the whole table? Is this model based on time and even burning out, higher quality & more involvement scale-able to the whole society?

• new opportunities for food projects and specifically how cooperative structures can help.

*…your own questions or asks for help. *

Discussion here:

After covid19: while food businesses are failing, can community oriented food projects be the way forward?

3 June 2020 at 17:30 CET (Brussels time) Curated by: @yannick, founder of Fermenthings (Brussels), @noemi, co-founder of Edgeryders How to register: Registration Page Whare the session happens: we will send you the link to join the video session a few days before the event. Summary The corona virus crisis is bringing home the message for consumers to start buying local and for entrepreneurs, to rely on local ingredients and production sources for their food projects. Unfortunately, the crisis…

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!