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Author: Chloe Smith, Updated: 14 June 2023 13:38

A partnership of Norwich-based organisations has been awarded membership of Sustainable Food Places, a national network of over 90 local partnerships aimed at making local, healthy and sustainable food available to all.

 

Norwich joins other cities including Bristol, Brighton & Hove and Cambridge as a member. Sustainable Food Places is a partnership programme run by the Soil Association, Food Matters and Sustain. It is funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund.

 

Sustainable Food Norwich is a collaboration between Green New Deal Norwich, the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development based at UEA, Goodery, The Feed, Nourishing Norfolk, the Norwich Institute of Healthy Ageing, Norwich University of the Arts and a growing number of advisors, champions and other supporters.

 

This is about rethinking the local food system to put nutritious, local, affordable and regeneratively grown whole foods on everyone’s plates.

 

The partnership will work with demonstration sites, including Marlpit Community Garden and Norwich FarmShare, to empower more people to grow and cook their own food. It will build on the work of the Norwich Food Network and help deliver its Food Equality Action Plan.

 

The partnership will also help create shorter supply chains, put community at the heart of healthy food and work with people across the city to develop a food vision and strategy. The aim will be to give Norwich local resilience against a backdrop of global uncertainty.