The theme of this year’s Bristol Food Conference is “Signing up to Good Food!”. The Conference, sponsored by Bristol’s Food Policy Council, the first of its kind in the UK, will showcase the public launch of its city-wide Good Food charter as part of Bristol’s Big Green Week.

As the charter states: “Bristol Good Food is the key message of the Bristol Food Policy Council. We believe good food is vital to the quality of people’s lives in Bristol. As well as being tasty, healthy and affordable, the food we eat should be good for nature, good for workers, good for local businesses and good for animal welfare.”

The programme, which will be chaired by Professor Kevin Morgan of Cardiff University, will feature keynote talks from:

-Gunilla Andersson from Malmo, Sweden, on the revolutionary changes that have been made to their public food,

-Dr. Gabriel Scally, former Regional Director of Public Health for the Southwest, on what good food can mean for our health as a city,

-and several Bristol-based speakers presenting their stories of the realities of working in the local food system and why they are committed to the principles presented in the new Good Food Charter.

Each keynote session will allow time for interaction and discussion with the speakers.

A fabulous lunch is being provided by FareShare South West, who work with the food industry to minimise fit-for-purpose fresh, frozen and long-life food going to waste as landfill, and send this food into organisations working with the most vulnerable people in the community. Following lunch there will be opportunities for networking with the many people and organisations involved in improving food in the city.

Please go here for the full programme.

bristolfoodpolicycouncil.org