Tackling food poverty in your city: Lessons learned from local food poverty action plans

Thursday 3rd March 2016

In recent years, a number of UK cities have developed local food poverty action plans. Learn from speakers how these cities brought together relevant stakeholders, collected data and developed priorities.

Chaired by Hannah Laurison - Sustain and lead campaigner for Beyond the Food Bank

Speakers: Elizabeth Mitchell - Belfast Food Network, Tony Nickson - Voluntary Action Lewisham, Emily O'Brien - Brighton & Hove Food Partnership

Recording:

• Listen and watch presentations from the webinar (please note that the recording starts a few minutes into the first presentation by Liz Mitchell)

Presentations:

• Hannah Laurison - Introduction to the webinar and Beyond the Food Bank campaign
• Liz Mitchell - Enough is Enough, Belfast's response to food poverty
• Emily O'Brien - Brighton and Hove Food Poverty Action Plan, lessons learned
• Tony Nickson - Putting Food on the Table

Local food poverty action plans and reports:

• Belfast Enough is Enough report
• Brighton and Hove Food Poverty Action Plan
• Case study: Brighton and Hove Food Partnership - A whole city approach to tackling food poverty 2015-2018
• Lewisham Putting Food on the Table report

To go further:

• Timeline and funding from the speakers' experiences
• Q&A from the webinar with speakers' responses
• Resources mentioned during the webinar