Kick-starting Food Justice Fortnight with the launch event at City Hall. Feeding Bristol is thrilled to launch Food Justice Fortnight with its first event at City Hall!

In this session Feeding Bristol will reflect on the Food Justice work that’s been happening in Bristol, and consider how we can continue to address food-related injustice that exists in the city. The One City Food Equality Action Plan will be launched in partnership with Bristol City Council and Feeding Bristol will hold discussions on how to take these actions forward in the next three years.

There will also be time allocated to networking, with brunch provided to all guests!

Hear from:

Mayor Marvin Rees

Director of Public Health, Christina Gray

Cabinet Member for Public Health and Communities, Councillor Ellie King

Feeding Bristol Director, Ped Asgarian

What is Food Justice Fortnight?

Food Justice Fortnight is an opportunity to celebrate the wonderful and diverse food communities creating positive change within our city.

Between June 26th and July 9th, Food Justice events will be taking place all over Bristol. There’ll be discussions, activities and many shared meals. Information about all events will be announced soon – keep an eye on Feeding Bristol’s Twitter and Facebook accounts for information!

Why do we need Food Justice?

Food is essential to good health, wellbeing and a thriving society; food is often the glue that holds communities together. Recent years have seen an increase in the number of people who are unable to eat well according to their health and culture – this is Food Inequality, and it is a huge injustice.

Bringing people together over food helps build our resilience, but we need to do more if we want to address the injustice of food inequality in the city. For this reason, we’ve created the One City Food Equality Action Plan and are launching it during Food Justice Fortnight. The Action Plan, which was co-produced by citizens and stakeholders of Bristol, sets out what we need to do over the next three years to start laying the groundwork for food equality in the city.

By connecting over food and collaborating to create community-based solutions, we are participating in Food Justice.