We believe everyone should have access to good food in ways that support dignity, health and community wellbeing. The Vale Food Insecurity Working Group brings together partners to facilitate collaboration and shared learning and strengthen local solutions to food insecurity.
If you would like the be involved in the group, get in touch.
Llantwit Food Project
Our current work has been shaped by learning from the Llantwit Food Project, a local partnership pilot that explored new ways of responding to household food insecurity. The project brought together community organisations and local services to better understand local needs, test collaborative approaches and strengthen connections between food support, health and wider community wellbeing.
The pilot demonstrated the value of partnership working, shared learning and a more coordinated approach to support…
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Drawing on learning from the project in Llantwit Major, this same coordinated and partnership approach is being applied to the development of a broader, county-wide strategy focused on prevention, collaboration and building resilient local food systems that go beyond short-term responses.
This is being launched with some work to explore whether more cooperative food-buying cooperative models might be feasible, and offer us the opportunity to improve food quality, health and sustainability, strengthen local supply chains and use public funding as effectively as possible.