Re-imagining how a food partnership can work to ensure local people and communities are at the heart of a flourishing sustainable healthy food landscape. 

The Covid pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing pressure on statutory and voluntary sector organisations has changed the Lambeth food landscape.  The Food Partnership has embarked on a process to bring more people and organisations together.

What We Did

Food Matters is providing consultancy support to the Lambeth Food Partnership (LFP) working group.  The process will re-energise the partnership with the ambition that a robust partnership emerges. This work has involved working with Lambeth Public Health staff, Lambeth Food Partnership members and others involved and interested in good food in Lambeth through a re-development and renewal phase.  

Food Matters provided mentoring, facilitation, food partnership governance expertise, facilitated online and face-to-face meetings, signposted and shared resources.

  • Collaboration and convening are key to good partnership working – LFP to ensure good representation to be the authentic voice of the network, to hold the space and represent the food community at strategic and policy level. 
  • Bringing people together over food provides the social element of connection – LFP will continue to increase understanding and raise awareness across Lambeth communities through social food activities.
  • Good food governance is crucial but be proportionate to the task in hand – Start with the simplest of governance structures and grow as needed. 
  • Don’t confuse governance with legal structures – what you are verses how you do it!
  • Understanding the food system is crucial to measure progress – Lambeth Food Partnership should take the lead on mapping the food systems, by gathering data and providing infrastructure support.  

 

“Thank you Food Matters”

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Get in touch with the Food Matters team to find out more about what we do or get involved. We also want to hear from you if you would like to collaborate with us on a future project.