Food Access and Insecurity - Tower Hamlets Food Partnership Quarterly Meeting
Food Access and Insecurity - Tower Hamlets Food Partnership Quarterly Meeting
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THFP's Food Access and Insecurity Workstream holds quarterly meetups, to connect people and organisations working to support food access and reduce food insecurity in Tower Hamlets. It's a chance to network, to discuss common goals, and to invite collaboration. We'll also be suggesting and voting on Spotlight sessions, for the months ahead. Would you like to shine a spotlight on food insecurity solutions or problems for specific experiences people may face in Tower Hamlets?
This is a Quarterly meet-up, to continue to check in about common strategy and to set new goals together.
Please email Zoe (zoe@wen.org.uk) to add to the agenda - this will be sent out ahead of meetings to all ticket holders and you can directly add yourself.
For anyone who hasn't been part of this THFP Workstream this before, this is info about this Workstream's aims, and how we are working to achieve them, taken from THFP's overall collaborative strategy:
Strategic Theme 1: FOOD ACCESS AND INSECURITY - Support solutions to address food insecurity, through increasing and ensuring supportive infrastructure for community members to self organise to meet their own needs, improving coordination of emergency food provision, and exploring opportunities to engage in advocacy and systemic change. Why? We know we need a mixed approach to address food insecurity in Tower Hamlets in order to support self-organised long term community solutions, and to ensure comprehensive food support is available to everyone who needs it. We aim to both support the work of emergency food provision projects to reach as many people as need it with the best food possible, and to support initiatives that end the current dependence on charitable emergency food provision. We will work to end current systemic dependence through supporting grassroots autonomous solutions that provide long term increased access to food within people’s own communities, and through campaigning for systemic change to address root causes of food insecurity in our Borough.
How?
- Facilitate an interfacing space for different networks and groups to share information and resources in order to improve coordination to increase access to food support, to build up a clear picture of the landscape of food support in Tower Hamlets, and to bring together information about root causes of food insecurity in order to better advocate for change.
- People are finding solutions for their own local communities, and as this often goes unfunded and unnoticed yet is the most effective long term solution to food insecurity, we will aim to identify and increase supportive infrastructure available to groups doing this.
- There are many opportunities to address structural and systemic change, and through bringing in this work to the Food Partnership, we will be able to discuss and campaign for systemic change needed to address food insecurity in Tower Hamlets.
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