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We are Cornwall’s food partnership: an alliance of people and organisations working to make Cornwall’s food system fairer, more regenerative, resilient and adaptive.
Image courtesy of Falmouth Food Co-op; photograph by Marco Kesseler.
Join Our Movement
Our food partnership brings together farmers, growers, fishers, retailers, food producers, health professionals, voluntary sector organisations and community activists.
Everyone can be part of the movement to transform Cornwall’s food system for the better: it’s free to join and all are welcome.
Sign up to our Food Charter (as an individual or on behalf of your organisation) to confirm you support the movement for change and our good food principles.
Cornwall & IoS Food Charter
Good Food For One & All
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Sustainable Food Cornwall is a member of the national Sustainable Food Places network.
Our working groups – get involved
Our working groups welcome people with a wide range of perspectives, ideas and experience. They meet regularly (mainly online but also in-person) to work on specific issues or areas.
Current groups are:
- Farming
- Food in Schools
- Community Growing
- Food Strategy
- Engagement and communication
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 Sustainable Food Cornwall in response to proposals from working groups, and ensures there is clear and consistent communication across the partnership.
We are in the process of welcoming new members to our steering group. We will provide more information here about who is on the group soon.
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 and its directors sit on Sustainable Food Cornwall’s steering group.
Cornwall Food Partnership CIC was created to benefit the residents of Cornwall and its bioregion, including the Isles of Scilly and the Tamar catchment.
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 about good food, champion sustainable food enterprises and procurement, and develop a local good food movement
Cornwall Food Partnership CIC is a social enterprise trading for people and planet, with a ‘triple bottom line’ focusing on economic, social and environmental returns.
Any profits will be reinvested in delivering the social benefit of the CIC.
Our directors
Charlotte is a co-founder of Camel Community Supported Agriculture (Camel CSA) in Wadebridge and a board member of CSA Network UK.
She is a keen gardener and environmentalist and a regular volunteer for the National Trust at Trerice and for Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Open Garden Scheme.
For many years she kept and bred free-range poultry. She spent her entire career as a journalist and journalism trainer working in print, broadcasting and online.
Hetty is the Sustainable Landscapes Manager for Newquay Orchard and a Volunteer Organiser for the Landworkers’ Alliance.
She loves growing food for her community and is passionate about food sovereignty and working on this in Kernow. She has worked with food crops for over 25 years in both tropical and temperate environments.
She strongly believes that working with and caring for the land, and practicing sustainable agriculture, is one of the greatest solutions to solving the climate crisis.
Previously Chief Exec at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall and Cornwall Food Foundation, Matthew has worked in social enterprise for most of his career, as well as in mainstream business, and now works for a variety of clients.
A chartered waste manager as well as a food activist with a hospitality background, he has been working with food systems for over 15 years including commercial food service, food skills capacity building and community development with food and compost.
He was a co-founding member of the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Leadership Board and Cornwall Food Access Alliance, and is on the boards of Regenerative Food and Farming CIC, food rescue charity the Hive Cornwall, and Pendennis Leisure CIO.
Peter is an environmental network facilitator, currently running the Green Futures Network at the University of Exeter.
He has held previous roles with Cornwall Council, and the Eden Project, and as Co-Chair of the international Transition Network.
While running the Community Action Group Project in Oxfordshire, he co-founded a number of community food projects including Feeding the Gaps and the Oxford Food Surplus Cafe.
He is also involved in the annual Oxford Real Farming Conference.