Shropshire Good Food Partnership

What we do

SGFP has created a Good Food Charter, our statement of intent, outlining the principles of good food and how to get involved and take positive action. We are using the Charter to build a good food movement and drive participation and accountability. We create awareness through social media, sharing stories and mapping.

We have reached out to Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Councils to develop food strategies as local responses to the National Food Strategy and Levelling Up White Paper. We have been engaging town and parish council members and can now launch our Good Food Challenge to develop webs of coordinated action.

Six working groups have been established:

• Sustainable Food Economy: Connects local producers and consumers
• Healthy Food for All: Tackles food poverty and access to quality food
• Wise land stewardship: Promotes agro-ecological approaches and nature-positive farming 
• Grow Local: Supports growing initiatives getting more people producing & eating food locally
• Nature Connection: Enables opportunities to be in nature and engage in food production
• Reducing Food Waste: On a mission to halve food waste in Shropshire in 5 years

Our aim is to further develop the partnership working and activities across the food system to enable Shropshire to achieve the SFP Bronze Award.

As a rural county we have a strong focus on land issues and have particularly broad producer engagement.  We can play a leadership role in food partnership thinking on reimaging land stewardship; responding to the emerging crisis in farming, the growing need for food resilience and challenge of rising food poverty.  

Current prriorities are to:

Increase access to local, seasonal produce in food banks through integrating growing initiatives and establishing a gleaning network to salvage surplus food and redistribute it.

Work with local producers to better connect with consumers, through creating hyper-localized food marketing opportunities, an MSME food marketing support hub and exploring dynamic procurement.

Engage able and mentally & physically challenged people in producing food and benefitting from nature connection.

Promote agro-ecological approaches and regenerative farming at scale across the County.