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is an award-winning charity with a vision of a UK where no one goes hungry. We support a national network of 50 regional anti-hunger partnerships comprising more than 600 local organisations – ranging from community centres and schools, to local authorities and social enterprises.
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Feeding Britain supported the formation of Feeding Gloucestershire and continues to offer support to our network, connecting us to a national network where we have the opportunity to share knowledge, ideas and potential solutions to issues. Through Feeding Britain we can share the stories from our communities at a national level
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Feeding Britain relies on its network of regional partners to provide evidence and knowledge of what is happening in communities across the country to fuel the work of creating systemic change to alleviate and eliminate hunger

Plan to transform Gloucestershire’s Food Culture Wins National Recognition

Gloucestershire Food & Farming Partnership (GFFP), supported by Feeding Gloucestershire (FG), have achieved membership of the Sustainable Food Places network to support their efforts to make local, healthy and sustainable food available to all.

In Sept 2022 the new SFP coordinator came into post, working with the GFFP, FG, and FWAG SW (Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group) to collectively coordinate Gloucestershire’s food and farming landscape, with the aim of moving the county towards achieving a Sustainable Food Places Bronze Award.

“I’m really looking forward to helping connect food and farming across Gloucestershire with the Sustainable Food Places Network. I have met so many inspirational people and projects already and am keen to connect with even more – look out for a Sustainable Food Places Bronze Award Campaign in the near future, and please send me any news of projects or groups which could be included in our programme.”
Jenny Salter – Gloucestershire SFP Coordinator (jenny.salter@fwagsw.org.uk)

Sustainable Food Places is a network of cross-sector partnerships in towns, cities, boroughs and counties that are using food as a vehicle to drive positive change. With support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund, the Network helps people and places to share challenges, explore practical solutions and develop best practice in all aspects of healthy and sustainable food.

Gloucestershire joins a network of over 70 members across the UK who work to tackle some of the biggest social, economic and environmental issues today, from an epidemic of food poverty and diet related ill-health to the loss of independent high street food businesses and family farms through to climate change, biodiversity loss and food waste.

The Sustainable Food Places programme work across six key areas:
1. Promoting healthy and sustainable food to the public
2. Tackling food poverty, diet-related ill health and access to affordable healthy food 16
3. Building community food knowledge, skills, resources and projects
4. Promoting a vibrant and diverse sustainable food economy
5. Transforming catering and food procurement
6. Reducing waste and the ecological footprint of the food system

For more information about Sustainable Food Places visit www.sustainablefoodplaces.org and follow our Twitter: @FoodPlacesUK

In 2023  Jenny, with the support of  Gloucestershire Food and Farming Partnership ,Feeding Gloucestershire , FWAG and Gloucestershire County Council launched a county-wide program of work  to secure Gloucestershire its Sustainable Food Places Bronze Award. 

In November 2023 Gloucestershire received a bronze award.

Are a collaborative partner network formed by harnessing the voices, passion and expertise of institutions, organisations, businesses, groups and communities across the region to build and champion a sustainable food and farming future for the county of Gloucestershire.
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During early 2021 Feeding Gloucestershire was working in parallel with GFFP, but are now discussing working in partnership to deliver strands of the GFFP work.
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Feeding Gloucestershire has also facilitated connections to support the GFFP’s organisational conversation program. These organisational conversations have given a picture of the variety of work happening across the county that has a focus on food – including food hubs, food pantries and food banks, community projects, community growing schemes, community orchards and community allotments.

The conversations have highlighted how essential the community and voluntary sector are in providing support to communities across our county and the need to connect and support this work.

Emergent theme’s from these conversations have served to direct Feeding Gloucestershire’s membership offer.
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Gloucestershire Food and Farming Partnership https://www.gloucestershirefoodandfarmingpartnership.org/