Earlier today I attended a powerful Food for Thought  webinar hosted by the Food Standards Agency, featuring new research from Trussell  (Report Link) that explored a question many of us working in food and community spaces quietly wrestle with: Why are so many people going without food and other essentials, but not accessing charitable food support? The findings were sobering, this wasn't a hopeful webinar. Across the UK, an estimated 4.5 million households are food insecure

Slide deck available below. Overview of the AGM What the Partnership Is Member of the national Sustainable Food Places  network Works across education, community, farming, policy and resilience Mission to relocalise, regenerate, reconnect and build county-wide resilience Key Achievements This Year £100,000+  secured in project grants 130 Good Food Trail venues 2,000 children  engaged via smoothie bike 23 schools  in the Schools Food Web National influence via parliamentary da

Schools Food Web pupils taste testing - "Can you taste the difference" pilot. There’s a growing awareness that what we eat shapes our health — yet the conversation often begins too late, when food is already seen as Food as Medicine . Don’t get me wrong: Food as Medicine is a powerful movement, but I believe we need to go beyond that. Food shouldn’t just help us heal; it should help us stay healthy in the first place . For that, we must look closely at what kind of food we’re

Earlier this month, at the Marches Real Food & Farming Convergence (MRFFC), Steve Brett from 3rd Space caught up with Daphne to explore the remarkable role food can play in the transition we so urgently need. Their conversation — now captured in Steve’s article (click on link for full article) for 3rd Space, “ Food — The Low-Hanging Fruit of Transition (and how understanding complexity is a superpower) ”  — highlights how reconnecting with food systems is one of the most acc

As the AFN Network+ Roadmap sets out, Phase 1 (2025–2030) is a critical window for “building foundations” — winning hearts and minds, co-designing practical solutions, and creating the conditions for a fair, healthy and sustainable food system. At Shropshire Good Food Partnership, we’re already laying these foundations locally, bringing together farmers, schools, councils, and communities to turn the roadmap’s national ambition into place-based action. Winning Hearts and Min