98% of Residents Demand Council Back £250m "Food Revolution" Before May Election
Community Calls on Westminster Council to "Sign the License" and Deliver Jobs by Spring
Today we announce our ground-breaking proposal to transform a dormant school building into a £250m "Food Enterprise Hub" has received a decisive mandate from the community, with 98.28% of local residents voting in favour of the scheme.
we have proposed a new economic model that moves beyond traditional social enterprise Instead of asking for endless council grants, the project creates a self-sustaining ecosystem of 100 new food businesses that will generate a permanent £23.5 million "Sovereign Community Fund" for Pimlico residents.
A Race Against Time With the local elections approaching in May, residents are calling for immediate action. The project requires zero long-term taxpayer funding and offers a "turnkey" solution to the cost-of-living crisis that can be operational within weeks.
Economic Engine: By incubating 100 high-growth food brands over 10 years, the group projects a collective asset value of between £250 million and £1 billion.
Immediate Impact: TGDG has confirmed it is ready to deploy its "Rapid Entrepreneurial Innovation" teams immediately, aiming to have the incubator (our commercial engine) community kitchen and Cookery School fully operational before May 2026.
Greg Wixted, Founder of TGDG and a Pimlico resident for 25 years, said:
*The residents have spoken clearly: they don't want promises, they want action. We have a dormant building costing the Council money every day it sits empty. We have a fully funded plan to turn it into a vibrant hub that creates 1,000 jobs 100 new food start ups and feeds 10,000 families. Our Pimlico without poverty plan and taken us over a year to refine and its based on the current model we use in our North London operation, which has had year on year growth and operates our 10 award winning food and hospitality brands.
"We are offering the Council a chance to crystallise their Fairer Westminster legacy by helping us to get the project off the ground not in months, but weeks. So we can be feeding families and training young people before the polls open in May. Delaying this means denying immediate help to those struggling with the cost of living. The community is watching, and they want this delivered now. and they have made it clear that they would not look favourably on councillors who don't back the plan come polling day.
Most projects ask councils and funders for money every year to keep the lights on. We are building a nuclear reactor. Once you help us turn it on with that initial funding, it powers itself—and the entire local area—forever. You are not spending money; the council is buying an exit strategy from the cost of poverty in Pimlico. as none of the local charities funding, they would have access to the Pimlico fund meaning the council can delete the recurring annual budget line for "Community Grants," "Food Poverty Support," or "Third Sector Funding permanently.
The proposal is currently on the desk of Westminster City Council and Future Academies and we are ready to meet them anytime to discuss how together we can bring this innovate and sustainable to life we can get create a blueprint for a future without poverty. Download a copy of Pimlico without Poverty Proposal here