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West Northants Sustainable Food Place
WNSFP exists to improve the sustainability, accessibility, quality and affordability of food in West Northants
Our partnership believes that good food matters. Whilst this was true pre-covid, we believe covid 19 has highlighted the importance of good food, produced locally, and available to all - especially those on low incomes - to improve health and the local economy
Working together, Sustain, Food Matters and the Soil Association lead a national programme to improve food quality at a local level. It's called Sustainable Food Places.
We are registered with them as a member Sustainable Food Place
We have completed a food charter for our area - read it Here
Our alliance works to improve the quality of food under six key headings. These are:
- Taking a strategic and collaborative approach to good food governance and action
- Building public awareness, active food citizenship and a local good food movement
- Tackling food poverty, diet related ill-health and access to affordable healthy food
- Creating a vibrant, prosperous and diverse sustainable food economy
- Transforming catering and procurement and revitalizing local supply chains
- Tackling the climate and nature emergency through sustainable food and farming and an end to food waste.
In West Northants a group of key organisations representing a wide range of interest in good, sustainable food has come together to inspire and co-ordinate work under the headings above and produce a sustainable food strategy for our area. The thematic areas covered above are broad and diverse, so we include in our steering group membership people and organisations who between them cover all these areas.
We include:
- The voluntary sector: organisations like Northampton Hope Centre and Northants ACRE
- Environmental groups like Transition Town and Circular economies network
- Northamptonshire Public Health
- West Northants Unitary Council
- The University of Northampton
- Northampton General Hospital
- Northampton Partnership Homes
- Made in Northampton (local food producers)
Our role is not always to lead action within the specific areas listed above: this can be done by separate working groups and alliances who form part of our wider network, as well as SFP sub-groups.
We inspire action by such groups and link their actions to create this wider and broader programme.
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How we work
Northampton Hope Centre convenes the work of the partnership and chairs meetings, and with Sustain and Lottery funding employs a development worker.
We have four working groups:
- Food and health - led by Public Health within West Northants Council
- Growing
- Supply chains, procurement and catering
- Food poverty - we work through the FAAWN alliance
Do you want to get involved in our work? Do you want to share with us examples of inspiring work to offer good food in our area? Contact our project worker Cat on catherine@northamptonhopecentre.org.uk
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Directories of local food business, markets etc:
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