Lourish News

Following the news earlier in the year that Lourish has won an UnLtd 4ip award from UnLtd and Channel 4 the awards day was last week and here’s a picture of Lourish’s founder, Dave Bower, receiving his award certificate from UnLtd’s Claire Stewart at the event in London.

The event on April 20th was attended by recent UnLtd award winners, all of them with great ideas and projects which UnLtd are helping to fund.

There were some fellow food-network entrepreneurs, such as  Paulina Akilah Balogun who has founded Swish Boxes, a community food-box scheme in London and there were also some fellow Web start-ups like Cambridge-based Sobia Hamid whose Datagiving site brings charities and donors closer together, allowing its users to see the impact of their charitable donations.

It was an inspiring event, but there’s no rest for the social entrepreneur, it’s back to work on Lourish ready for those summer gluts…

The Lourish HQ runner beans are famous! BBC Look East came to film Dave’s swap with Dan on his allotment in Coton and talked to Dave about why he created lourish.com.

You can see the film and a report all about how great it is to share your own and swap instead of shop here on the BBC website – http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8909000/8909052.stm

Lourish was on the radio this morning! You can listen again on iPlayer to the Jeremy Sallis Cambridgeshire Breakfast show and hear Dave talk to Jeremy about what Lourish is, how it got started and call the good people of Cambridgeshire to action to join lourish.com and share their own fruit and veg by swapping instead of shopping!

Be quick though, it’s only available for the next 7 days – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0097g3y/Cambridgeshire_Breakfast_with_Jeremy_Sallis_12_08_2010/ Dave’s on 1 hour and 40 minutes in

You can now follow Lourish on twitter @lourishment and we’ll keep you bang up to date with all the pre-launch news and info about lourish.com!