FoodWise Leeds

FoodWise is an unincorporated organisation and is hosted within local charity Zest. We began our journey in 2017 as the Leeds Food Partnership, initiated by Feed Leeds, Leeds City Council and the University of Leeds to promote a new strategic approach to sustainable, healthy and affordable food in the city.

In 2019, we achieved the SFP Bronze award and rebranded as FoodWise Leeds. Our vision is to create a healthy, sustainable and fair food system for everyone in Leeds. We're now working towards silver.

 

What we do

Our recent achievements:

  • Hosted a Low Carbon Lunch event at which Leeds City Council announced three pledges to the Glasgow Food & Climate Declaration to reduce the carbon impact of the food procured across its services.
  • Produced the Building Food Resilience toolkit for food aid providers to support people experiencing food insecurity to greater food resilience
  • Delivering a campaign to increase uptake of Healthy Start vouchers in Inner East Leeds
  • Piloted a scheme with GoodBox to exhange Healthy Start vouchers for a vegbox increasing access to fresh produce 
  • Delivered a Veg Cities campaign to increase the consumption of vegetables 

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Contact

Sonja Woodcock
Leeds Food Partnership
https://foodwiseleeds.org/
sonja.woodcock@zestleeds.org.uk
01132406677

Get involved

To find out more sign up to the FoodWise quarterly newsletter  or email info@foodwiseleeds.org 

Case studies

Good Food Stories Leeds
13/03/2023

Events

Food for Health & Wellbeing Workshop - Leeds Food Strategy

26/07/2023 10:00 00/00/0000 12:00

Leeds Food Strategy Action Plan Workshop

10/07/2023 09:00 00/00/0000 12:30

Campaigns

Veg Cities
Food Power

Compost Collective Leeds - pilot success

27/06/2023

Leeds's local response to Covid-19

06/08/2020

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