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Established in 2010, Food Plymouth www.foodplymouth.org is the City’s recognised cross-sector Local Sustainable Food Partnership and Network – a ‘central connecting hub’ for all food-related matters in the City. Food Plymouth is an active contributor to the 80+ Sustainable Food Places (formerly Sustainable Food Cities) Network in the UK and Ireland www.sustainablefoodplaces.org.The Food Plymouth Partnership and Network comprises a diverse mix of public, private and third sector agencies, organisations, businesses and community groups and individual citizens. The Food Plymouth partners share in the mission of building a healthy and sustainable food city through promoting local, healthy and affordable food as a driver for positive change.Formed in 2014 and operational since 2015, Food Plymouth CIC enables and contributes to the Food Plymouth Partnership and Network by providing infrastructure support, coordination, communications and administrative services, contracting capability, direct delivery of specific projects, and financial resourcing through income generation.Food Plymouth’s activities and impacts span the domains of social, economic and environmental sustainability, embodied in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, expressed principally by delivering on the six strands of the Sustainable Food Places (SFP) framework: Good Food Movement; Healthy Food for All; Sustainable Food Economy; Catering and Procurement; Food for the Planet; and Food Governance and Strategy.Delivery is based on a collective impact model achieved through a mix of: The activities of partner organisations aligned to Food Plymouth’s vision and mission; collaborative and cooperative partnership projects at local, regional and national level (for example Sugar Smart Plymouth, Food Power Plymouth including the Plymouth Food Equality Project; the Thrive Plymouth Year 5 – ‘People connecting through food’) legacy project; support for and coordination of the Plymouth Food Aid Net-work and direct delivery projects led by Food Plymouth CIC (for example All Ways Apples Festival and Fringe, the Food Plymouth Growing Community Abundance Project and the Food Plymouth Generous Earth project).Any surpluses resulting from Food Plymouth CIC’s activities are re-invested in developing and strengthening the CIC and enhancing the support and enabling services which it provides to the Food Plymouth Partnership and Network.
Food Plymouth’s stakeholders are any person, group, organisation, agency, public sector body, business, social enterprise or cooperative with an interest in food and food-related issues in and around Plymouth, South West England, the UK and internationally.Communications -Social Media -Facebook - 1,945 followersTwitter - 3,462 followersInstagram – 862 followersWebsites -Food Plymouth - www.foodplymouth.orgPlymouth Food Aid Network - https://pfan.adoddle.orgElectronic Newsletters -Food Plymouth and Plymouth Food Aid NetworkCoordination Work and Direct Delivery Activities – Facilitating and resourcing the cross-sector Food Plymouth Partnership and Network.Enabling the Plymouth Food Equality Project arising from Food Plymouth’s engagement in the national Food Power programme promoting Food Equality, addressing Household Food Insecurity, Food Poverty and Holiday Hunger (on-going) and providing an online Food Access Guide for the City, in response to the COVID-19 emergency.Coordinating Plymouth’s collective food aid endeavours, notably resourcing and facilitating the Plymouth Food Aid Network (PFAN).Supporting the Aid Redistribution Centre (ARC) which arose out of Food Plymouth’s food aid work and was originally set up to meet an anticipated short-term gap in food supplies in early 2021, but then went on to become a valued feature of Plymouth’s food aid and essentials provision vimeo.com/644732190 . Food Plymouth collaborates with and advises Plymouth City Council and partners around distributing national government funding for food, energy and essentials relief. During the reporting period this has included two tranches of Emergency Food Aid and Essential funding totalling £140,757, November 2020 to January 2021; and a Winter Grants scheme valued at £821,420 (food only – including school food vouchers) plus £13,703 (food and utilities), September to November 2021.Active involvement as a community partners and sub-contractor in FoodSEqual, a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Food Systems and Disadvantaged Communities five year programme (2021 to 2025) with the University of Plymouth and multiple cross-sector partners, led by the University of Reading.Planning and delivering the All Ways Apples Festival On Tour 2021 - an adapted small-scale mobile format response by the established All Ways Apples Festival to the COVID-19 pandemic. Facebook 604 followers. Twitter 482 followers Facilitating the Food Plymouth Growing Community Abundance project https://vimeo.com/367084561, building the capacity, capabilities and connectedness of Plymouth’s community growers and the productivity of the City’s community gardens. Food Plymouth CIC continues to support and promote the Growing Community Abundance project in its post Awards for All funding legacy phase, including its dedicated Facebook Group which currently has 110 members.Food Plymouth facilitates the Generous Earth community composting initiative members. The Generous Earth team are supporting a community composting initiative at Snapdragons in Victoria Park, Stonehouse and are also working with Plymouth City Council around aspirations to create a showcase composting and earth systems operations and demonstration site.Performing an ‘observer partner’ role in the Interreg 2 Seas FLAVOUR project which is about preventing food waste and reducing the number of people experiencing food insecurity, in collaboration with Plymouth Marjon University (on-going).Local Engagement -Facilitating Food Plymouth Partnership and Network activities.Facilitating Plymouth Food Aid Network activities.Active membership of Plymouth Social Enterprise Network (PSEN), including launching Food Plymouth’s BestFoodForward initiative at Plymouth Social Enterprise City Festival 2021 (online).Active membership of the Plymouth Octopus Project (POP+) Voluntary and Community Sector infrastructure organisation, including participation in POP+ workshops and events.Active membership of the Thrive Plymouth [Health Inequalities reduction] Network.Linking closely with the Permaculture Plymouth group members.Supporting Plymouth City Council’s ‘Fit and Fed’ Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) initiative (on-going).Engaging with Plymouth City Council and Partners around collaborative COVID-19 emergency response measures, including the Plymouth Voluntary, Community Sector and Social Enterprise (VCSE) planning and response group, including taking part in fortnightly network meetings.Engaging in Plymouth’s Co-operatives Fortnight 2021 programme – June & July 2021.Collaborative partnership working with Plymouth City Council / Co-operative Councils.Food Plymouth is a founder signatory of the RESURGAM Charter (now Plymouth Charter) recovery plan and is collaborating and contributing to the development and delivery of its outcomes.Engaging with the Plymouth City Council and Partners Green Estates Management Solutions (GEMS) project and Green Minds programme, including the Enrich Social Enterprise and Pioneer Parks initiative (on-going), including additional food growing and food-related projects .Supporting the National Marine Park for Plymouth Sound initiative / Sustainable Fish Cities .Supporting Fairtrade Plymouth.Engaging with the Our Plymouth initiative.Engaging in the Tamara Landscapes Project with multiple partners, led by the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty including the Tamara Project.Supporting The Stonehouse Action Stonehouse Street Party 2021 – September 2021.Regional Engagement – Working with the emerging Devon-wide Sustainable Food Places interim steering group around a more joined-up strategic approach to food-related matters, including around food aid, food agency and community resilience across the entire geographical county of Devon. Engaging with and inputting to New Prosperity Devon, notably around Community Wealth Building.Participating in and contributing to the Devon Doughnut (Doughnut Economics) Collective Engaging in the Food Power south west regional network, promoting Food Equality and addressing Household Food Insecurity, Food Poverty, Holiday Hunger and precarity. National Engagement -Membership of the national Sustainable Food Places Network.Engaging with the Sustainable Food Places Network and Partners and Associates, including Sustain, Food Power, Local Trust and others around effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and building a sustainable recovery thereafter (various dates).Supporting and contributing to the Sustainable Food Places Day of Celebration and Action 2021.Working within and contributing to the FoodSEqual research and innovation programme.International Engagement –Working as an ‘observer partner’ (connector and advisor role) with UK and European partners in the EU funded FLAVOUR project preventing food waste and reducing the number of people experiencing food insecurity, in collaboration with Plymouth Marjon University (on-going).Engaging in Plymouth’s membership of the global Fab Cities local self-sufficiency movement .
There were no salaries paid to the directors in the year to 31st October 2021, but they did receive self-employed income of £9,703 (Ian Smith received £7,153 and Tamsin Skelton received £2,550).
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
27 July 2022
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ian Smith
Status: Director