Making Local Food Work: Community Enterprise and the Future of Food Conference – 30th September 2009, Bristol
We look forward to seeing you at Community Enterprise and the Future of Food, the second Making Local Food Work conference. As with the first conference in March this event is a sell out with 250 people attending which is fantastic and demonstrates the appetite for these approaches.
Headline speakers at the event include
Professor Kevin Morgan of Cardiff University
Tim Crabtree, Director of Local Food Links
Barny Haughton of Bordeaux Quay
More about the event....
The people attending the event are a mix of community food enterprises, support organisations, policy makers and shapers and a wide range of other individuals other organisations. The event is bringing everyone together to debate how people can take control of their food and where it comes from to shape a new food future.
The event showcases a number of high profile speakers, the very best case studies and range of excellent workshop sessions all put together with the aim of giving delegates the ideas, inspiration and information to make a real difference in their community.
A link to the final programme for the day is below. The link will also take you to the latest delegate list for those attending the event. When registering, many of you indicated that you were happy to share your email addresses with other delegates to enable networking so we have done this via the delegate list.
A map of and directions to the conference venue, the Marriot City Centre in Bristol is available from the link below too. We would like to encourage as many people as possible to car share or travel by public transport as the venue is only a short distance from Bristol Temple Meads and it is near various bus routes. Car parking is available at the nearby NCP car parks a short walk from the venue but they are fee charging car park.
For any Twitter users out there, it would be great if you could use the #MLFW hashtag when talking about the event. If you have not already done so, you can sign up to follow Making Local Food Work on Twitter (http://twitter.com/mikemlfw), join our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87053225948) or sign up to our newsletter.
Details of the programme, workshops, speakers and other information is all online from the link below.
http://www.makinglocalfoodwork.co.uk/conference.cfm
We look forward to welcoming you all at the event.
Best wishes
Making Local Food Work Conference Team