Plans have been lodged with the county borough’s planning department for two steel containers to house a Big Bocs Bwyd or big food box at Garnteg Primary School in Garndiffaith, Pontypool. Big Bocs Bwyd is a project that runs across Wales and aims to tackle food poverty and reduce food waste as well as improving access to healthy food for local residents. It will also support the primary school’s aim that “every child that attends school will be able receive a nutritious meal at home.” The statement also adds the school wants to work with the local community through the project with Torfaen Borough Council supportive of its intention to be part of the Big Bocs Bwyd scheme. “We hope to encourage the local community to engage with this imitative and to foster links with the local community with the aim of the BBB scheme becoming a hub that will grow, develop and establish itself as an integral service.”