We are Sustainable Food Cornwall
We are Cornwall’s food partnership, an alliance of organisations and individuals working to make Cornwall’s food system more fair, healthy, regenerative and resilient.
Image courtesy of Canborne Science & International Acadamy.
Our partnership brings together farmers, growers, fishers, food processors and manufacturers, retailers, health professionals, voluntary organisations, policymakers, academics, community groups and food activists.
Everyone can be part of the movement to transform Cornwall’s food system for the better. It’s free to join us and all are welcome.
support the movement for change
Sign up to our Charter as an individual and/or on behalf of your organisation to show you support our good food principles.
Images left to right, top to bottom: Fish – Seafood Cornwall; Cheese – Falmouth Food Coop (Marco Kessler); Baker – Falmouth Food Coop (Marco Kessler); Packing community meals – Falmouth Food Coop (Marco Kessler); Kitchen – Falmouth Food Coop (Marco Kessler); Harvesting cauliflowers – Cornwall Food & Drink; Cuppa – Nourish Kernow CIC
Our working groups:
get involved
Our working groups welcome people with a wide range of perspectives, ideas and experience. They meet regularly (online and in person) to work on specific issues or areas.
Our current working groups are:
- Cornwall sustainable food strategy
- Food in education
- Community growing
- Engagement and communication
- Public procurement
- Food for Health
- Governance
Additional groups are in development.
If you’re keen to get involved in shaping or delivering our action on food system change, please get in touch to join one or more of these groups – or to suggest a new one.
Our steering group
Our steering group makes decisions on behalf of the partnership in response to proposals from working groups. The steering group ensures there is clear and consistent communication across the partnership and uses a process of decision-making by consent.
Images left to right, top to bottom: Cows – Cornwall Food & Drink; Podcast recording – Bosavern Community Farm; Community Feast – Bosavern Community Farm; School pasty cooking – Cornwall Food & Drink; Compost – Camel Community Supported Agriculture; School group learning about chickens – Bosavern Community Farm; Sweetcorn – Camel Community Supported Agriculture
Our parent organisation:
Cornwall Food Partnership
Sustainable Food Cornwall is a partnership network that is supported and resourced by Cornwall Food Partnership, a Community Interest Company (CIC) established in 2023.
The CIC serves as the infrastructure organisation, or backbone, to Sustainable Food Cornwall. Its directors – Becky Fry, Charlotte Barry, Matthew Thomson and Peter Lefort – sit on the Sustainable Food Cornwall steering group.
Cornwall Food Partnership CIC was created to benefit the residents of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and the Tamar catchment area.
It aims to:
- Improve practical collaboration between people, organisations and across sectors to strengthen our local food system
- Promote biodiversity as the foundation of sustainable food production and consumption
- Foster food citizenship by inspiring and engaging the public, championing sustainable food enterprises and procurement, and developing a local good food movement (this needs working on)
Cornwall Food Partnership CIC is a social enterprise working for people and the planet, focusing on economic, social and environmental returns.
Any profits will be reinvested.
Get in touch
We’d love to hear from you.