food and local policy – 10 years of a food partnership vic borill, brighton & hove food...
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Food and Local Policy – 10 years of a Food Partnership
Vic Borill, Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
@harvestbh
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The Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
• A non-profit organisation that helps people learn to cook, to eat a healthy diet, to grow their own food and to waste less food.
• Work with individuals• Work with groups• Work at a strategy and policy level
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Direct service delivery work Individuals
• 800 + people a year via our Healthy Weight Referral service
• Sign post volunteers to community projects• Members – 3700 – info via e news, twitter etc• Deliver cookery lessons and Love Food Hate
Waste workshops• Training for health, social care professionals
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Community development role - Groups
• 75 growing projects - During 2013, 4,000 people were involved in community gardening, contributing 15,000 hours of their time to growing food locally
• Community cafes (22)• Community compost schemes (30 schemes
807 households)• Cookery – lunch clubs, cookery groups
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Putting food at the heart of the solutions
Food
Health and wellbeing
Economic development
Social cohesion
Culture
Reducing inequalities
Environmental sustainability
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The idea is born (2003)
Key people:• PCT health promotion• Council sustainability• Community groups• Local campaigners and
residents• Food Matters
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Childhood (2004-6)• Mapping local food,
‘Food Shed’ report• ‘Spade to Spoon’ event• Food Partnership
formally founded• Strategy and action
plan (2006)
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Growing up (2007)• Not-for-profit, independent, politically neutral• Membership organisation, with elected board• One member of staff• Events• Newsletter • Website
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Teenage years (2008-12)
• PCT funding for Food for a Healthy Future
• Lottery funding for Harvest project on food growing
• Core strategy, waste strategy responses
• Council funding for food waste campaign
• Gained seats on Local Strategic Partnerships – eg health and sustainability
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Young adult? (2012 and beyond)
• Food Strategy review and refresh (2011-12) – showed where doing well and not so well
• Led to Esmee Fairbairn funding for ‘tricky issues’, eg food poverty, procurement
• Grown to 20 staff (16 FTE), 3700 members
• Partners start to ‘get it’ and people coming to us
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Why influence policy
• Longevity • Equality• Attention to the issue • Direction• Connecting good practice to resources• Helps when applying for funding• Allows for up-scaling and replication
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Food Strategy and Action Plan• If have a food strategy why
influence other policy areas .... Won’t people just do it?
• Strategies that refer to strategies! ACTION PLAN
• Using your food strategy as a hook and entry point
• Resources are by policy area
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Which ones?• Challenge – so much could respond
to • JSNA • Health and Wellbeing• Planning• Waste• Target communities eg for FP adults
with LD• Anything to do with land• Climate change and sustainability• Economic development, skills
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Policy making process
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Downsides
• Time consuming• Out of comfort zone• Disconnected to reality• Often very long term• Want facts not opinion• Turning policy into action
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Who are these decision makers? Elected Councillors and Council Officers, business, statutory and voluntary
sector
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Personal contact• Responses to consultations – engaging, simple
language, concise – what like as well as what don’t like.
• Ongoing positive communications – newsletters, invites to things
• Attending events and partnership meetings• Critical friend • Patience and persistence • Tone
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Seeing is believing
• Visits• Films• Case studies• Surveys• Focus groups
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Evidence / research
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Local Media
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Policy into practice an example – domestic waste strategy
Policy asks• Food waste is a problem –
bin survey 35%• Link to national evidence –
most food waste is avoidable – WRAP
• Link to other agendas – costs to household
• Pay attention to the waste hierarchy – reduce first
• Problem of home composting without a garden
What happened• Love Food Hate Waste
community education programme
• Community composting – previously just discounted compost bins
• Challenge – this was only about domestic waste – redistribution and hotel / restaurants
• Challenge – does it work?
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Involvement in the process – allotment strategy
• Part of a strategy steering group with Allotment Federation, BHCC and
public health• Consultation and engagement work –
1200+ responses• Open access to info including financial• Took just over one growing season to achieve• Process important = Trust
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Local or national?
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The challenge
The Brighton & Hove Food Partnership is a hub for information, inspiration and connection around food.
• Need to learn and share• Need to be willing to do
things differently• Need both the doers
and the thinkers