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Bristol Going for Gold Sustainable Food Places submission Contents Welcome from our coordinating partners 1 About Bristol’s Gold Sustainable Food Places submission 3 Why food matters 5 Bristol’s food partnership and programme: embedded and 7 sustainable for the long-term Bristol’s food culture 8 Case study: Bristol Eating Better Award 10 In it for the long-term 12 Case studies: Universities 22 Exceptional achievement in two areas of food-related activity 24 Growing the Good Food Movement 25 Case study: Osborne Clarke 37 Towards zero food waste 40 Case study: Bristol Waste Company 54 Evidence of significant continued action and outcomes 55 since Silver Buying better 56 Good food catering procurement 57 Bristol’s local food economy 61 Urban growing 69 Case study: Grow Wilder 78 Case study: Bristol Food Producers 80 Eating better 81 Case study: The Children’s Kitchen 86 Food equality 88 Case study: Evergreen Primary Academy’s Breakfast Club 94 Case study: FOOD Clubs 95 Concluding reflections 97 TAYLOR JASON © 1 BRISTOL GOING FOR GOLD Welcome from our coordinating partners As Bristol moves towards becoming a carbon-neutral and climate-resilient city Bristol’s Going for Gold bid involves the whole city in our ambition to make by 2030, the importance of good food in achieving that goal is increasingly Bristol’s food system better for our people, our city, and the planet. It builds obvious. Making sustainable and lasting improvements to how we produce, on the incredible work of over 120 organisations supporting good food in purchase and consume food in our city is at the heart of this ambition. our city that led Bristol to receiving a Silver Sustainable Food Cities award in 2016. The tangible achievements of individuals and organisations across the city, working in partnership towards the common goal of becoming a Gold Achieving Gold is not the end of that journey. This work has galvanised a Sustainable Food City, are both astounding and inspirational. Reading through powerful momentum in Bristol and laid the foundations for a decade of this submission, I feel an immense sense of pride at what’s been accomplished building a diverse, inclusive and resilient food community that can bring real by a collective, city-wide effort. change by 2030. Bristol City Council is committed to the ongoing work needed to build a The onset of a pandemic did not deter our ambitions, instead it has been a sustainable food system for the city, not least because it aligns with our core catalyst for change. Bristol’s Covid-19 food response brought people together priorities, including the climate and ecological emergencies, but also because and ‘Biting Back Better’ has been at the centre of our work this past year. it supports our work in building strong communities, empowering our local Collaboration and partnerships have played essential roles in Bristol’s ability economy, improving public health and achieving food equality. to adapt and respond to the pandemic, and showed what we can achieve as a city when we have a common purpose. Realising our vision of a city where everyone has access to healthy, ethical and sustainably produced food is not without its challenges, but I’m encouraged It has been an honour to have been Chair of the Bristol Going for Gold by what has already been achieved, and look forward to the next chapter as Steering Group. My thanks to all the Steering Group members, past and we build on the momentum of the Going for Gold partnership. present, and to all the individuals and organisations across the city whose contributions have played an invaluable part in this bid. To continue our Mike Jackson Bristol City Council Chief Executive and Going for Gold Champion journey towards a resilient food system in Bristol, we all need to be involved, at home and at work, in communities and through our institutions and I am excited to see the next phase of this work take shape. Councillor Asher Craig Deputy Mayor of Bristol (Communities, Equalities & Public Health) Chair, Going for Gold Steering Group 2 BRISTOL GOING FOR GOLD: WELCOME FROM OUR PARTNERS Bristol Green Capital Partnership has been delighted to help coordinate We originally planned to make this Sustainable Food Places Gold Award Bristol’s bid to be a Gold Sustainable Food City. The aim of bringing the submission in Autumn 2020 – but we all know what happened to plans last whole city together to create a fairer, greener, healthier food system perfectly year. Covid-19 changed everything. For many, it turned their world upside aligns with the work of the Partnership, which seeks to foster city-wide down, while for many others, it forced a period of reassessment and a collaboration on a range of environmental issues and make links between questioning of how we should live our day-to-day lives. them. Rather than plough on regardless with our Plan A, we chose to pause, reflect Changes to our food system are critical in tackling the climate and ecological and adapt, along with the rest of the city. emergencies and continues to be a priority for the Partnership. Over the last couple of years we have engaged our network of over 1,000 organisations We have been overwhelmed and humbled by the Bristol response to the of all sizes and sectors with the bid, encouraging them to consider their Covid crisis – from food businesses, community organisations and countless relationship with food and providing information and ideas on how they can individuals. The submission we make here now is not necessarily the one we most effectively make a difference. had originally planned, but it’s all the better and stronger for it. And we won’t stop here. The Partnership called for a ‘Decade of For Bristol Food Network, this submission is the culmination of five years’ Transformation’ at the start of 2020 and will be continuing to support and work to take us from Silver to Gold. But those five years were built on motivate organisations to take further and faster action to help Bristol meet the back of the work, drive and enthusiasms of many, many others over its ambitious climate and ecological goals. Food will be a key part of this, the preceding decades. We can only acknowledge just a few people and and the Going for Gold bid, and the relationships and collaboration that have organisations at the end of the submission, but to the rest of the city, we’d like come out of it, is an ideal platform on which to build. to say “thank you!” – you are the ones who make this all happen. Mohammed Sadiq Jane Stevenson Chair of Bristol Green Capital Partnership and Executive Director at Wessex Water Chair of Bristol Food Network CIC 3 BRISTOL GOING FOR GOLD About Bristol’s Gold Sustainable Food Places submission Working towards a *good meal every day for everyone Bristol’s effort to make big and lasting improvements to the city-wide food system and be recognised as a Gold Sustainable Food City has mobilised the whole city to take collective action. Leading food organisations and city networks, including Bristol City Council, created the Going for Gold partnership to work together to embed these positive changes through policy and practice. Since 2018 the Going for Gold partnership’s focus has been on harnessing the energy of local government, the health sector, universities, local businesses, schools, institutions and citizens to make measurable and sustainable change to the city’s food system in six specific areas which reflect (but do not directly map onto) the six Sustainable Food Places themes. MORELAND * Good food is defined as being 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, ELIZA © good for businesses and good for animal welfare. (Bristol Good Food Charter, 2012) 4 BRISTOL GOING FOR GOLD: ABOUT BRISTOL’S GOLD SUSTAINABLE FOOD PLACES SUBMISSION Bristol food theme Sustainable Food Places Food theme The impact of Covid-19 midway through the Bristol Going for Gold campaign led to significant changes to the approach. Restrictions on the catering and In it for the long-term Food Governance and Strategy (theme 1) hospitality sectors meant the original ambitions for exceptional achievement in catering and procurement mid-2020 had to be put on hold. Instead, the Food Waste: Reducing Food for the Planet (theme 6) focus turned to what had originally been named ‘community action’. This has avoidable food waste and Reduce, redirect and recycle food developed into a new area of work: Growing the Good Food Movement. recycling food that cannot packaging and related waste. be eaten. The campaign found a home online during Covid-19 and became more flexible; the language, tone and focus changed to reflect and support Community Action: Good Food Movement (theme 2) the needs of the city as the different phases of the pandemic manifested Connecting up and Inspire and engage the public about themselves. working together as a good food; foster food citizenship and stronger Bristol Good a local good food movement. This submission contains three main sections that align with the criteria for a Food Movement. Gold Sustainable Food Places award: Eating Better: Encouraging Healthy food for all (theme 3) 1. Evidence that Bristol’s food partnership and programme is embedded and people to cook and eat Promoting healthy eating. will be sustainable over the long-term. healthy, sustainable food. 2. Exceptional achievement in two areas of food-related activity (Growing a Good Food Movement and Towards zero food waste).