Stoke-on-Trent Food Partnership
Good food is vital to the quality of people's lives
Food Availability
Food Affordability
Food Sustainability
Purpose
To ensure that Stoke-on-Trent has an equitable, resilient, and environmentally sustainable food network that supports the health, wellbeing, and prosperity of our communities.
Partnership Objectives
Reduce the number of people in Stoke-on-Trent reporting being hungry.
Reduce health inequalities.
Promote equitable access to food and options to reflect our diverse communities.
Embed, strong and formed partnerships.
Improve cooking skills and food knowledge.
Improve Mental wellbeing.
Background
Many different organisations and groups are involved in food-related projects and services in Stoke-on-Trent.
These include:
- food banks and pantries addressing food poverty and insecurity,
- provision of meals to alleviate poverty and social isolation,
- the development of cooking skills,
- promotion of healthy eating,
- community food growing,
- improvements in procurement and catering, and
- tackling food waste.
Stoke-on-Trent Food Partnership believes that every person in the city should have access to healthy, tasty, affordable food and that this food should be good for the environment and our local economy. We recognise that food is at the heart of some of our city’s most pressing social, economic and environmental problems; however, we also see good food as a part of the solution to the challenges our communities face.
The Food Partnership has been established to support strategy, policy and advocacy, and to provide a platform that enables collaboration across sectors in relation to food.
Membership
The Food Partnership is a cross-sector partnership, with members and steering group including representatives from the statutory, VCSE and private sectors.
The partnership aims to ensure accurate representation of the communities it serves, and welcomes influence from a range of geography, expertise and specialisms, including (but not limited to):
- anti-poverty,
- diversity,
- education,
- environment,
- foodbanks,
- health,
- housing,
- sustainability,
- VCSE development / infrastructure, and
- youth.
Attendance at the Stoke-on-Trent Food Partnership is open to all. Any interested organisation may apply for membership, and voting rights.
All members have the right to stand for the Steering Group by completing an online form confirming agreement and compliance with this Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The steering group reserves the right to remove organisations from the partnership’s membership if, following a thorough review process, they are deemed to have breached the terms of the MoU.
