The Bristol Food Policy Council is a strategic body comprised of 12 representatives from the food sector, business, public, and community that aims to bring about a sustainable food system in the city. It works by providing an evidence base to support policies that ensure good food, promoting events to reconnect people with food, seeding the ground for change, and supporting new projects through sharing skills, advice, and help with resources. The Council partners with city leadership to implement a food systems planning process and enact long-term culture change around food.

1. The Bristol Food Policy
Council
Steven Marriott
Bristol Wider Food Community

2. Big food issues in Bristol

3. Our response – the Food Policy
Council
 Strategic body – linked to City leadership
structures
 Small (12) but representative of the food
sector; business, public and community
 Aim – to bring about a sustainable food
system in the city

4. How does it work?
Food systems
Powerful message
Seeding the ground
Sound evidence
Raising the game
Supporting action

5. A powerful message
Helping people
reconnect with
food
Events to promote the
message

6. Sound evidence and raising the
game
Providing the evidence base to
ensure strategies and policies
support the aim of “good Food”

7. Supporting action by all
Encourage new
projects, through;
• sharing skills
• technical advice
• funding and
income
generation
advice
• help with land
and facilities

8. Summary
 Strategic body – linked to City leadership
structures
 Food systems planning process
 A clear message which draws people in
 Work to achieve systemic change
 This is about culture change, it
takes a long time