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East Sussex Food and Health Partnership
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Promoting sustainable local food systems that support improved health and
nutrition, for the benefit of consumers, producers and the environment
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Overview
The Partnership brings organisations together from
across the food system to ensure a co-ordinated
approach to addressing food supply, access and
consumption. The vision is to promote a sustainable local food system that supports good nutrition, human and animal health, which reconnects, and works for the benefit of consumers, producers and the environment.
The Partnership works throughout East Sussex to
increase:
• the availability, affordability, acceptability
and awareness of a healthy diet
• understanding of food and farming by the
general public
• the proportion of land that is farmed in an
environmentally sustainable manner and
with high regard for animal welfare
• levels of skills and knowledge in the local
food system including maintaining the safety
of food
• the number of food producers and processors
sourcing, selling and adding value to locally
produced food
• the use of local produce in public and private
sector catering
• proportion of food produced and consumed
locally
• biological diversity in production systems
And also to support communities to determine their
food choices and reduce the consumption of energy
in the distribution and packaging of food.
The East Sussex Food and Health Partnership
is a great example of how working in
partnership can promote sustainable food
production and procurement at a local level.
Members include NHS Trusts, voluntary sector
organisations, local authorities and other
local and national agencies and
organisations.
Having started out four years ago with no
funding, the partnership has now secured
nearly £1 million to run local projects with
the overarching aim to promote a
sustainable local food system that supports
good nutrition and human and animal
health, and which benefits consumers,
producers and the environment. The Partnership runs a range of food action projects which are listed below.
Grab 5 Be Alive – promoting a whole school
approach to food
• Community Chefs – working with community
groups, schools, farmers markets and village
shops to increase cookery skills and celebrate
local foods
• Fresh Ideas – supporting the development of
community food projects
• Village Shops – increasing the shelf space
allocated to fruit and vegetables and building
links with local producers
• Farmers Markets – supporting the
establishment of farmers markets throughout
East Sussex
• Sussex Foodfinder – directory of local produce
• Community Dietitian – working to support
good nutrition in care homes
• Training Programme – from food growing to
cookery, from food in schools to setting up
community food projects
• Awareness Campaigns – A Feast of Words
Poetry competition
• Healthy Living– supporting access to a
healthy diet for older people
Robin van Creveld, Food and Health Partnership Community Chef with pupils from Red Lake Community Primary School in Hastings at the launch of Grab 5 Be Alive!
“To us this is about broadening out the
public health agenda – and seeing a
healthy ecosystem as the foundation for
public health.”
Sarah Davies, the programme manager
Key features
food
health
Key data
Completion Date: 11/05/2005
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Action in rural Sussex
Age Concern
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