Good Food Governance
The future of good food in Bristol: Developing the 2025-26 Action Plans
By Bristol Food Network
As we step into 2025, Bristol is embarking on an exciting journey toward a healthier, fairer, and more sustainable food future! We’re thrilled to have started the second series of action-planning workshops that will gather and amplify diverse voices from across the city to collaboratively create Bristol’s food Action Plans for 2025-26.
Explore the ongoing work to make food in our city better for communities, climate, nature, people and businesses, here on the Bristol Good Food 2030 website.
The workshops bring together representatives from key organisations, community groups, institutions and citizens working within our local food system. Workshops center around the themes and 2030 vision for good food, which make up a ‘whole food system’ approach, ensuring that every aspect of food in Bristol is considered. In the workshops, we come together to reflect on what’s working well and where the gaps still are. We explore challenges, measurable progress, and bold actions to tackle critical issues, from reducing health inequalities to cutting carbon emissions and restoring nature.
The first workshop looked at the Local Food Economy (Wednesday 15 January) asking what training, funding, tools and resources are needed to build a resilient, sustainable food system. Next up was Food Waste (Thursday 16 January) considering reducing, redistributing and recycling food and packaging.
Here’s what else is coming up:
Urban Growing: Growing good food in and around the city.
Eating Better: Improving diets, cooking skills and accessibility to nutritious food.
Procurement: Developing strategies for sustainable, ethical and local food sourcing.
The workshops are a key moment for everyone involved in Bristol’s food system to reflect on their work and achievements since the 2023-24 Action Plans were created, then work collaboratively to plan for 2025-26. The plans will support the Food Equality Action Plan (FESAP) and contribute to the One City Plan review in 2025, steering good food action across the city for the next two years.
By taking action for good food as a city, we can build a food system that is good for Bristol, and collaborate with other cities in the UK and across the globe to create a food system that’s good for everyone. Whether it’s creating resilient spaces for urban growing, making healthy food accessible to everyone, or finding innovative ways to redistribute food and reduce waste, these plans will deepen and broaden the good food work already being done in the city.
Once the 2025-26 Action Plans are finalised, we will publish them on the Bristol Good Food 2030 website. The best way to stay updated with the good food movement in Bristol is to subscribe to our newsletter, which you can do at bristolgoodfood.org/newsletter
Bristol Good Food 2030 exists to drive action towards a fair and resilient food system in Bristol, and to connect everyone and everything making Bristol’s food system better for communities, climate and nature. If this sounds like something you are doing, or would like to do, we would like to hear from you! Join the good food movement here.
Thanks to First Bus for the offer of free transport to make sure people working on good food can attend the workshops.
So, what change do you want to see happen that will transform food in Bristol by 2030? Do you already have an idea for how Bristol can make this happen? Join the conversation now.
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