Sustainable Food Places

In 2022 Gloucestershire Food and Farming Partnership (GFFP) passed a stringent set of criteria to achieve membership of the Sustainable Food Places network to support their efforts to make local, healthy and sustainable food available to all. 

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The Sustainable Food Places Network is supported by the Soil Association, Food Matters and Sustain, and aims to bring together over 100 pioneering food partnerships from towns, cities, boroughs, districts and counties across the UK that are driving innovation and best practice on all aspectrs of sustainable and healthy food.

 

In 2023, GFFP, together with Gloucestershire County Council, Feeding Gloucestershire, FWAG SW  (Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group), Visit Gloucestershire and GRCC (Gloucestershire Rural Community Council) collated evidence from across the county's food system to support a successful application for Sustainable Food Places Bronze Award! This national award shows Gloucestershire is taking a joined-up, holistic approach to sustainable and healthy food, demostrating activity and impact across the food system.

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Our Feedback from the Sustainable Food Places Panel

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"This is a very strong application across all Key Issues, with impressive and varied evidence of work documented, demonstrating what can be achieved in a rural county. There is evidence of strong emerging good food movement in Gloucestershire that is being well supported by the work of the partnership. Cross-sectoral stakeholders really see the value in supporting a good food economy via programmes like Made in Gloucestershire and the associated Food Trail. Some great examples of good practice in supporting sustainable food production. The collaboration between an SFP partnership and a Feeding Britian partnership appears to be working effectively, helping to balance the growing food poverty demand with wider whole-system activities."

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