Food Partnerships | Forth Valley Food Futures

Growing a future where food across the Forth Valley is fair, healthy and sustainable.

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Forth Valley Food Futures is the home of the region’s cross-sector Food Partnerships working together to transform our food systems to positively benefit wellbeing, health, economic development and to protect nature and the environment.

Use this page to connect with your food partnership groups, for Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire:

These three partnerships are all members or are in the process of becoming members of the Sustainable Food Places Network.

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Healthy Eating on a Budget – Forth Valley College

May 31, 2023

Free two day course Healthy Eating On A Budget This new, healthy eating on a budget two-day course, will teach students how to cook various healthy two-course meals. This course consists of: • Budget management • How to plan daily meals • Making delicious, yet...

FEL is recruiting

May 22, 2023

FEL is changing our world for the better, project by project. We show people how to make everyday changes that help them, their communities and the planet thrive. FEL is now recruiting for two project officers to join our team. Come and work in our Food and Growing...

Gather Around Good Food

Apr 3, 2023

Book your free place and help create the food system you want Three conferences, to be held across Forth Valley this Spring, will celebrate food success stories and generate ideas for a local food system ready to meet the region's pressing social,...

Job Vacancy: Freelance Development Officer, Braehead Community Gardens

Mar 15, 2023

BBDCDT are looking to contract on a freelance basis an individual to undertake the following contract:

Contract Length: rolling twelve months from start date. P/T 15 hours per week Apr-Oct and March, 10 hours per week Nov-Feb

Location: Braehead Community Garden (a laptop and mobile phone will be provided to facilitate home working where necessary)

Contract Value: 670 hours @ £17 per hour = £11,390

close up image of a raised bed with squash growing in it

A Green Way to Save event for Falkirk Business Communities

Mar 14, 2023

Falkirk business communities are invited to a day of helpful tips, resources and workshops around making a climate friendly impact with your business and saving money in the process. We'll also be looking at how this transfers to your personal and employee's...

Clacks Good Food Business Breakfast – 10 May 2023

Mar 1, 2023

What is Good Food? Enjoy a blether over breakfast as we explore how Clacks ensures Food is Good for Business, as well as People and Planet. How do we make Clacks a place where the local economy has a thriving, diverse and climate friendly food sector that creates...

FORTH VALLEY SUSTAINABLE FOOD MAP

Find and explore Forth Valley’s Sustainable Food Places.

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Each food partnership has its own unique identity and will work in different ways

By clicking on each locality page you should be able to explore where in the journey to an active and sustainable food system they are.

Join them in that challenge and show your support by sharing your knowledge, signing up to food charters, or keeping in touch via their newsletter.

These food partnerships are made up of cross sector food representatives including;

Members of the Public
Local Businesses & Producers
Third Sector Organisations
Public / Statutory Services
Tertiary Education
NHS

The food partnerships within Forth Valley Food Futures are made up of cross sector food representatives including members of the public, local businesses & producers, third sector organisations, public / statutory services, tertiary education and the NHS.

Our food partnerships aim to improve the ecological footprint and support sustainable practices across Forth Valley’s food system.

As a region we come together through our broader regional aims which are to;

Help Forth Valley community to Grow, cook eat, learn about good food
Improve the health and wellbeing of Forth Valley with good food affordable to all
Support a thriving and sustainable local good food economy
Help Forth Valley businesses to thrive by supporting healthy nutritious, affordable and planet friendly food
Improve the ecological footprint and support sustainable practices across Forth Valley’s food system
Collaborate and support sharing of resources across Forth Valley

Find everything you need to be connected here and show your support for this good food movement.

A cooking group at COO Park takes place with after school pizza making. In the picture one of the volunteers helps slide one of the pizzas onto a baking tray. The other children are busy adding toppings to their pizzas.

A close up of a child holding an armful of leeks, ready for making potato and leek soup bags.

Brightly dressed children who are part of Larbert District Childminders, pose in front of their empty allotment plot ahead of having their polytunnel put up. One of the childminders is crouched down directing them to pretend to water plants in the prop planter in front of them.

People are sat down at a table, ready to tuck into a tasty local lunch of homemade quiche and salad as part of the Clacks Good Food Launch, provided by St. Mungos Community Cafe.

A smiling host of NeighbourFood Killin stands holding a box of produce from their online local food market, in front of their collection point at Killin Post Office.

Members of the Rainbow Muslim Women’s Group laugh and chat around dishes of food in a community kitchen, as one of them shares how to cook a traditional dish from her culture. They are about to sit down and eat together as part of their women’s wellbeing group.

Clacks Good Food

Let’s make Clacks a place where food is good for people, health, planet, business and community.

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Falkirk Food Futures

Follow Falkirk Food Futures on their journey to joining the Sustainable Food Places network.

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Stirling Food Partnership

Together we will make Stirling a place where food is good for all.

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Creation of this website is an outcome of Falkirk Food Futures, a partnership project funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund. The partnership comprises of Forth Environment Link, Falkirk Council, NHS Forth Valley and CVS Falkirk.

The UK Community Renewal Fund is a UK Government programme for 2021/22. This aims to support people and communities most in need across the UK to pilot programmes and new approaches to prepare for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. It invests in skills, community and place, local business, and supporting people into employment.