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Contact East Anglia Food Link

You can contact East Anglia Food Link at our office at The Street, Long Stratton, Norwich NR15 2XQ.

If you are looking for the School Fruit Scheme or 5-a-day team, please note that they are no longer hosted with us. Please do not contact us on these matters as we will not be able to help.

Staff and consultants

To contact our key staff members and consultants please email using the format firstname@eafl.org. Or telephone on the following numbers: (in alphabetical order...)

Adam Garner, public sector food procurement officer: call Adam if you are a school, hospital, university etc interested in sourcing more sustainable food or adopting a more sustainable menu. Telephone 01508 536666 or 07726 360 566.
William Hudson is our fruit and vegetable specialist. Call William if you are looking for supplies of East Anglian fruit and vegetables, or if you are a producer or supply-chain business in that sector.
Nick Saltmarsh: call Nick if you are a London-based community group seeking supplies from the East of England; also if you are a business in the meat supply chain. Telephone 07801 497 609.
Tully Wakeman, co-ordinator: also a good place to start if you don't know who you need to talk to. Telephone 01508 536666 or 07717 471 396.

Board of directors

EAFL is guided and overseen by our board of directors, elected from our membership:

Lady Caroline Cranbrook Caroline is a campaigner on rural issues, with a particular focus on local food chains and the importance of local abattoirs for viable livestock farming. Caroline's survey of local food producers and retailers for the Campaign to Protect Rural England in 1997 demonstrated the importance of food webs, the complex and interdependent set of links between people who produce, process, sell and buy foods in a local area. She has recently written an updated report for the CPRE - The Real Choice: How Local Foods Can Survive the Supermarket Onslaught.

Nigel Dowdney Nigel runs two independent grocery stores, the Stalham Shopper and Earlham Shopper, and is an active member of the Red Orange buying group and the Association of Convenience Stores. Nigel also plays an leading role in the Localise It! campaign in support of independent shops.

Marion Gaze Marion has always worked with local organic vegetables and wholefoods, starting the first wholefoods stall on Norwich market in the 1970s and later the co-operative Renaissance Wholefoods shop. Growing concerned about the amount of food imported into this country, Marion later worked on her own and co-operative organic farms, market gardening and growing crops of drying beans and cereals. Since 1998 Marion has worked at Wakelyns Agroforestry, growing and marketing vegetables and potatoes. She is involved with Halesworth Produce Market, the Halesworth Thoroughfare food event, the Eostre Organics Co-operative, and supplies local shops and restaurants.

Mike Hall

William Hudson William grew soft fruit in Essex for nearly 20 years. He now works as a consultant to EAFL on fresh produce supply chains.

Mark Karaczun Before moving to Norfolk, Mark lived in the USA and Thailand where he developed a passion for food from various cultures. In 2000, he started working for the local NHS as Public Health Adviser. In this role Mark worked closely with EAFL, taking the broad view that a vibrant local food economy was as much a public health issue in a rural county as population nutrition. Mark founded Norfolk’s Food and Nutrition Group (FaNG) and secured funding for initiatives such as 5 A DAY Norfolk. In 2005, Mark resigned as Public Health Adviser to study medicine at UEA.

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Nick Saltmarsh Nick joined EAFL in October 2002 to support the creation of the Eostre Organics co-operative, subsequently working on projects from the production of educational materials to support for independent retail outlets and work with community food groups. Nick's work with EAFL is now mostly on the development of red meat supply chains. Previous experience included two years on organic farms in the UK, Italy and Ireland, work for a London organic wholesaler and home delivery service, a food service company specialising in wild foods, educational tourism and running a forest products company in north Wales.

Martin Seymour Martin is a Health Improvement Officer with Breckland Council and Norfolk Primary Care Group. His background is in local authority leisure, community development and more recently health improvement. He has an interest in food issues relating to public health and sustainability. Until recently Martin worked with the East of England Public Health Group and EAFL as the Regional 5 A DAY Co-ordinator, responsible for supporting the 5 A DAY community initiatives in the region and for the delivery of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme. Martin also worked on sustainable food and farming initiatives including public sector food procurement. Martin is currently the Chairman of Norfolk FaNG.

Bill Starling Norfolk born and bred, Bill returned to the county after 25 years running a part time farm in Lincolnshire. Bill has many years practical and political involvement with the organic movement, including 15 years trading organic grain. He is a long standing Trustee of the Soil Association and works as a self employed organic inspector. A strong supporter of local, organic and sustainable lifestyles, Bill was a director of EAFL in the early days, and is very pleased to have rejoined the board.

Tully Wakeman Tully is co-ordinator of EAFL, having joined in 2001 with a background in local government policy, management consultancy, IT and e-commerce development, social economy consultancy and running profitable small businesses. His work at present focuses on establishing sustainable food supply chains for public sector caterers in the East of England. He has a leading role in sharing best practice with others doing similar work in relation to public sector procurement and other topics relating to local and sustainable food. He has worked on projects relating to local food, food access and healthy eating; mapping the food economy in part of Norfolk; a feasibility study on sustainable sourcing of the Schools Fruit Scheme; research into the issues facing village shops; and various projects relating to school meals. Tully’s other current focus is on the world’s dwindling energy supplies and on climate change, and the implications of these for food systems.

Professor Martin Wolfe Martin is currently Research Director for Elm Farm Research Centre. After working for 28 years at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, he held the Chair of Plant Pathology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, for nine further years. Martin and Ann returned to England in 1997 to farm Wakelyns Agroforestry in Suffolk, the main site for EFRC arable farming research and trials. The theme of the research is ecological agriculture for sustainable land use, the framework for which is six agroforestry systems which have been developed over the past 10 years.