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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2023
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1 February 2022 to 31 January 2023
The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 February 2022 to 24 June 2022
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Bristol Food Network C.I.C. supports, informs and connects individuals, community projects, organisations and businesses who share a vision to transform Bristol into a sustainable food city. In 2022-23 Bristol Food Network was involved in the following projects: BRISTOL GOOD FOOD 2030Bristol Good Food 2030 (BGF2030) has been our main area of focus in the past year, working with stakeholders to develop detailed theme-based action plans for Bristol’s food system to the end of 2024, developing pathways for action up to 2030 (the BGF2030 Framework for Action) and producing an 80+ page report detailing the background, methodology and full details of the pathways. The themes are: Eating Better (healthy, climate-friendly diets and food skills), Local Food Economy – Procurement and Infrastructure, Urban Growing, Good Food Governance, Food Justice, Food Waste. A lot of work was also undertaken to identify indicators (measures of success) for BGF2030, with a view to developing an online dashboard to track progress in 2023/24. The BGF2030 website was also developed and launched with great success. Summary of activity February 2022-January 2023: - Regular Working Group meetings to develop the action plans and Framework for Action - Regular Steering Group meetings to ensure work was on track, identify new opportunities to include in the BGF plans and framework. - Ongoing identification of and engagement with new stakeholders to participate in BGF2030. In particular, we focused on diversity – bringing in a number of community-based organisations, representing less affluent neighbourhoods, disabled and refugee communities. We also created new connections with academics at universities in Bristol and beyond, helping us to draw on research skills and additional knowledge on sustainable food systems change. - Within Urban Growing, we secured specific funding from Sustainable Food Places to work with Bristol City Council on mapping growing land and starting work on new policies to improve access to this land. - On Food Justice, we have worked closely with Feeding Bristol to align the BGF2030 plans with their action plan on Food Equality, for example looking at skills and equitable access to good food. - Design and delivery of a new BGF2030 website - Establishment of a new monthly BGF2030 newsletter, ongoing social content, continual uploading of event listings onto the BGF2030 website, weekly Good Food Jobs updates, ongoing blog series promoting the work behind the BGF2030 action plans. New community sector regular newsletter to engage with more diverse, grassroots organisations. - Work with stakeholders, including academics to identify indicators for BGF2030 and work began to collect the data. Thanks to our grants from various sources, we continued with a freelance Content Coordinator role circa 1 day per week, and introduced 3 new, part-time (2-3 days per week) PAYE, fixed term roles to deliver BGF2030: - Communications Coordinator - Partnership Coordinator - Framework Developer & Programme Manager OTHER ACTIVITIESBristol’s Get Growing Garden Trail 2022: The Get Growing Garden Trail is a shared open day (or days) for community growing projects in Bristol. It allows visitors to explore allotments, community orchards and smallholdings which are not normally open to the public, and for participating groups to attract new volunteers. Bristol Food Network have helped to run the event since 2011. This year’s event had over 30 venues participating. Bristol’s Good Food monthly newsletter and website: We continued sending out our newsletter, newly branded as Bristol Good Food 2030. The number of subscribers has increased from around 1,750 to 1,970. We have 94 organisations listed on the website and are typically listing 75-100 food events every quarter. Working with partners: Bristol Food Network extends its reach by being represented on several city-wide organisations such as the West of England Procurement Group and has established the new Bristol Good Food 2030 Partnership, which is co-chaired by Councillor Ellie King (cabinet member for Communities and Public Health) and Angelina Sanderson-Bellamy, Associate Professor of Food Systems Research at the University of the West of England. Directors have spoken at a number of events in the city including on Future Leap’s sustainable food programme and the University of Bristol Corporate Social Responsibility masters programme. BFN continued to contribute to the Bristol One City Plan and participate in the biannual Bristol One City Gatherings. BFN presented at both the Environment and the Health and Wellbeing Boards to provide updates on BGF2030. Both boards have engaged well in supporting this work. The Bristol Green Capital Partnership is now made up of over 1000 member organisations across the city. During 2022 the Monthly Green Mingle meetups were held online. BFN continued to be a member and attend these events. BFN is also a member of VOSCUR, Bristol’s third sector network. In 2022 BFN continued to work with Norwegian partners, contributing to a comparative study on local food between Oslo and Bristol and meeting visitors on a study tour to Bristol from Norway.
- We consulted with members of the Going for Gold Steering Group, arranging for 2 facilitated zoom sessions to review how things have worked to-date, and to gauge enthusiasm for a new phase of work. - We consulted with community growing groups around the city by email, to see how they felt about opening their sites to the public as we emerged from COVID restrictions, and whether they would prefer a summer or autumn date for the event. We adapted the Get Growing Garden Trail according to the groups’ feedback. - We continue to use our e-newsletter to communicate with our wider stakeholders – anyone who’s interested in sustainable food in the city – to share what work we’re doing, and to try to engage as many people, organisations and businesses in our campaigns. - So far, work on Bristol Good Food 2030 has been primarily about consultation, holding one-to-one meetings with major stakeholders, and adapting the structure of the Good Food project as a result of that feedback. We consulted with over 50 organisations and almost 100 individuals to develop the BGF2030 action plans and Framework for Action, - We consulted with community growing groups to plan and deliver the Get Growing Trail, altering the format to be on a single weekend to increase the event’s impact. ADAPTATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATIONFor BGF2030, consulting with a wider range of grassroots, diverse, community-based organisations led to us developing plans which specifically seek to address the needs of under-served citizens including Global Majority, refugee and disabled communities. For example, developing plans for wheelchair accessible allotments, increasing community-based food skills provision, increasing growing space in deprived neighbourhoods and better business support for food enterprise in deprived neighbourhoods. In response to conversations with community-based organisations, we have started a specific newsletter to build deeper relationships with and support these organisations. This is particularly relevant to our ambitions (in partnership with Feeding Bristol) to achieve food justice.
The aggregate amount paid to directors during the period was £28,981.There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed. All transactions are identified in the accounts.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
30 June 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: D. Finch
Status: Director