We have over 20 years of experience working with food partnerships and food-related organisations, specializing in movement building through participatory, people-centered processes.

At the heart of our approach is a commitment to putting people first. We ensure that everyone impacted by the project is actively listened to and understood—before, during, and after the design and delivery stages. 

 

What We Offer

We provide comprehensive consultancy services for food-related projects, specialising in: 

  • Building strong partnerships and stakeholder relationships 
  • Developing and executing strategic plans 
  • Designing and delivering impactful programmes 
  • Conducting thorough research 
  • Carrying out feasibility studies 
  • Feasibility pilots for projects 
  • Performing in-depth evaluations 
  • Creating tailored toolkits and resources 

Please get in touch with us for an informal chat to explore how we can support your work. We tailor all our support to meet the needs of your project and local community. If there's something you need that isn't listed, don't hesitate to contact us—we're always open to finding ways to work with new food projects.

We have provided consultation services locally and nationally, to partners ranging from county councils to the national school meals service. Some of our previous examples include:

– Good Food East Sussex

We were commissioned by East Sussex County Council, in collaboration with four food partnerships across East Sussex, to help develop the food system at a county level. This resulted in the development of the ‘Good Food East Sussex’ network – read more about this process here.

– Greater Brighton: The Future of Food

Commissioned by the Greater Brighton Economic Board (GBEB), we developed potential costings for food system investments that could be made across the Greater Brighton region. We identified five investement opportunities, which were combined into one overarching systems-change project: ‘Greater Brighton: The Future of Food’. Read more about the project here.

What we Offer

Food in the Criminal Justice System

Food is a powerful tool that can aid rehabilitation and can directly influence our physical and mental health. We work with people inside the criminal justice system and disadvantaged groups outside, to help them make better food choices. Our focus is on the positive role food can play in normalising life in prisons and support a rehabilitative culture inside and out.

Nourishing Young Minds

We work with groups of vulnerable people, including children, teenagers, asylum seekers and refugees, care experienced young people, young mums, and people with learning difficulties. We deliver cookery sessions that focus on preparing and cooking affordable healthy meals from simple ingredients and using basic equipment. This accommodates the people we work with who may be living in temporary accommodation with limited facilities.

Interactive Webinars

We deliver bespoke, interactive webinars on food and wellbeing, designed and delivered by our trained nutritionists. Offering courses online means we are able to reach out to more people in the UK and internationally, with nutrition and wellbeing knowledge that supports physical and mental health.

Nourishing Young Minds

We work with groups of vulnerable people, including children, teenagers, asylum seekers and refugees, care experienced young people, young mums, and people with learning difficulties. We deliver cookery sessions that focus on preparing and cooking affordable healthy meals from simple ingredients and using basic equipment. This accommodates the people we work with who may be living in temporary accommodation with limited facilities.

Interactive Webinars

We deliver bespoke, interactive webinars on food and wellbeing, designed and delivered by our trained nutritionists. Offering courses online means we are able to reach out to more people in the UK and internationally, with nutrition and wellbeing knowledge that supports physical and mental health.

Food in the Criminal Justice System

Food is a powerful tool that can aid rehabilitation and can directly influence our physical and mental health. We work with people inside the criminal justice system and disadvantaged groups outside, to help them make better food choices. Our focus is on the positive role food can play in normalising life in prisons and support a rehabilitative culture inside and out.

Food in the Criminal Justice System

Food is a powerful tool that can aid rehabilitation and can directly influence our physical and mental health. We work with people inside the criminal justice system and disadvantaged groups outside, to help them make better food choices. Our focus is on the positive role food can play in normalising life in prisons and support a rehabilitative culture inside and out.

Nourishing Young Minds

We work with groups of vulnerable people, including children, teenagers, asylum seekers and refugees, care experienced young people, young mums, and people with learning difficulties. We deliver cookery sessions that focus on preparing and cooking affordable healthy meals from simple ingredients and using basic equipment. This accommodates the people we work with who may be living in temporary accommodation with limited facilities.

Interactive Webinars

We deliver bespoke, interactive webinars on food and wellbeing, designed and delivered by our trained nutritionists. Offering courses online means we are able to reach out to more people in the UK and internationally, with nutrition and wellbeing knowledge that supports physical and mental health.

Nourishing Young Minds

We work with groups of vulnerable people, including children, teenagers, asylum seekers and refugees, care experienced young people, young mums, and people with learning difficulties. We deliver cookery sessions that focus on preparing and cooking affordable healthy meals from simple ingredients and using basic equipment. This accommodates the people we work with who may be living in temporary accommodation with limited facilities.

Interactive Webinars

We deliver bespoke, interactive webinars on food and wellbeing, designed and delivered by our trained nutritionists. Offering courses online means we are able to reach out to more people in the UK and internationally, with nutrition and wellbeing knowledge that supports physical and mental health.

Food in the Criminal Justice System

Food is a powerful tool that can aid rehabilitation and can directly influence our physical and mental health. We work with people inside the criminal justice system and disadvantaged groups outside, to help them make better food choices. Our focus is on the positive role food can play in normalising life in prisons and support a rehabilitative culture inside and out.

‘The work that Food Matters has done to help create such a strong Food Partnership alliance in East Sussex will undoubtedly be a huge benefit to all the partnerships, not just now, but in years to come.’ – Liz Maynard, Rother Voluntary Action