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Making Local Food Work

 
Making Local Food Work helps people to take ownership of their food and where it comes from by providing advice and support to community food enterprises across England. If you are involved in a community food enterprise or interested in starting one in your community, we may be able to help you.

Community food enterprises
Community food enterprises are businesses run by communities for their benefit, which are involved in at least one part of growing, harvesting, processing, distributing, selling or serving local food. Community food enterprises include farmers' markets, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) enterprises, community-owned shops, food co-operatives and much more. 

Information, Advice and Support
Making Local Food Work can help community food enterprises across England with some of the challenging aspects of running a business. We have a team of expert mentors and specialists who can help you with a range of issues, be it developing a business plan, working out a marketing strategy, putting in place a legal structure and governance arrangement or ensuring you are complying with the latest legislation. We also work to map local food networks across England.

Making Local Food Work helps specific types of community food enterprises in many ways. We provide dedicated support to:

Farmers' Markets
Community Supported Agriculture
Country Markets
Food Co-operatives and Buying Groups
Local food hubs
Community-owned shops and other rural shops

If you would like to talk about the services that we offer and how we may be able to help you, please call us on 01993 810730 or email info@makinglocalfoodwork.co.uk.

Making Local Food Work is a five year programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund. We are a partnership of seven organisations, all of whom believe in empowering communities to tackle the challenges they face themselves. We believe that community food enterprises are the most effective way of enabling communities to ensure long-term access to local food. As a consortium of seven organisations, we use our expertise to promote and support different types of community food enterprises through the Making Local Food Work programme.

Making Local Food Work is a partnership between Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), Co-operatives UK, Country Markets Ltd, FARMA, Plunkett Foundation, Sustain and the Soil Association.

www.makinglocalfoodwork.co.uk

 

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