Agencies and organisations across Warwickshire have pledged their support to work together to deliver the Warwickshire Food Strategy. They will work together on three priority areas:
- Affordability and access to food – helping residents access affordable, local and healthy food
- Food education and choice – help communities develop their own skills to make healthier food choices
- Sustainability – working with local supply chains to encourage locally sourced food choices, reduce food miles and decrease food waste
Councillor Heather Timms, Warwickshire County Council’s portfolio holder for environment, climate and culture, said: “The Pandemic highlighted existing inequalities in accessing good quality, affordable food across the county, which is now exacerbated further through the ongoing cost of living challenges. What we eat is central to our health, so the availability of affordable and healthy food is important in helping to reducing some of the inequalities that exist across the county.
“The Warwickshire Forum partnership is made up of agencies and organisations who are already working with residents and communities to provide support. The partnership is therefore ideally placed to work together to drive the Warwickshire Food Strategy forward and deliver on real actions that will have a positive impact on the areas of the county that will benefit most.”
For more information on food support in Warwickshire visit: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/food.