Enfield Food Partnership

What we do

Enfield Food Partnerships (EFP) coordinates a range of projects and campaigns aligned with the six Sustainable Food Places themes, with a strong focus on food poverty, community resilience and sustainable food systems.

A key programme is the Enfield Food Poverty Action Plan Draft (2025–2030), developed in response to the Enfield Poverty and Inequality Commission and extensive engagement with partners and residents with lived experience. The plan prioritises structural prevention of food insecurity, improved crisis provision, and long‑term resilience.

EFP has led borough‑wide initiatives to strengthen coordination across food provision, including collaboration with The Felix Project, supporting food distribution across multiple community sites and improving referrals to wraparound services such as financial, housing and mental health support. 

The partnership has delivered engagement and mobilisation activities such as the Enfield Food Summit, which helped formalise the partnership, build trust and expand membership. 

Ongoing projects include:

• Maintaining a borough-wide map of food support services to improve resident access and reduce travel barriers. 
• Coordinating surplus food redistribution and communication networks (newsletters, mailing lists, WhatsApp groups). 
• Supporting collaborative campaigns linking food, health and climate action, including community food growing and surplus redistribution initiatives. 

EFP also aims to embed food priorities across wider council strategies, including the Climate Action Plan and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

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Areas of expertise

Enfield Food Partnerships has experience in coordinating a cross-sector partnership to tackle food insecurity at borough level. We have developed and are delivering the Enfield Food Poverty Action Plan (2025–2030), shaped through engagement with partners and residents with lived experience, and aligned with the Sustainable Food Places framework.

Our work focuses on strengthening collaboration across 35+ organisations, delivering borough-wide engagement such as the Enfield Food Summit, and supporting practical initiatives including food provision mapping, surplus redistribution and capacity-building for community organisations. We also link food insecurity with wider priorities such as health inequalities, cost of living and climate action.