Join Future Leap for an evening of interactive stalls, talks and drinks to understand the many different ways you can make your food and drink choices more sustainable.

After such a successful event back in July, Future Leap is excited to be hosting a second session in advance of Fairtrade Fortnight.

Stall holders and speakers include representatives from:

• Riverford Organics
• Better Food
• Soil Association
• Wiper and True
• Bristol Food Network
• High Tide Seaweed
• Veg Life
• Harvest Shop
• Hobbs House Bakery
• Eatplanted

Future Leap and the organisations involved will look at:

• Regenerative agriculture, organic and agroecology – commonalities and differences
• Challenges to sustainable /ethical food consumption during a cost-of-living crisis
• Challenges and opportunities around decarbonising beer
• Embedding sustainability at the heart of your organisation
• Food supply chains
• The good food plan
• Building a more resilient just food system by 2030
• Seasonal, ethical produce
• Producing food in harmony with ecology
• Circularity and waste reduction methods
• The cost barriers to eating sustainably
• Ways community groups, business and individuals can work together

Expect delicious food, refreshing drinks and discussions with ample opportunity for relaxed networking and collaboration.

Future Leap offers a spacious, covid-compliant event space with MHVR air conditioning units which take out old air and bring new air in. We also have reduced our capacity so you can be mindful of each other’s space.

Agenda

6pm – 6:45pm – Arrival, Refreshments, Stalls and Product Testing
6:45pm – 6:55pm – Introduction
6:55pm – 7:25pm – Panel Discussion (with Lee Holdstock, Senior Business & Trade Development Manager at Soil Association, Heloise Balme, Director, Bristol Food Network, and Joseph Watts, Operations and Sustainability Manager, Wiper and True)
7:25pm – 7.30pm – Close
7.30pm – 8pm – Refreshments, Stalls and Product Testing