| Agenda No | Item | Notes | Action Points |
| Introductions/ ApologiesPresent: PJ, BA, LH, GR, LM, RT, LB, ST, LM, NF | |||
| Silver award celebration | Recap and thanks for coming! | ||
| Governance and Finance – New funding sources/projects since last SG meeting [Selina & Natalie] N.B. Current Budget spreadsheet See below for FoF Work SCC x ShefFood projects until August 2024 Formalising consultancy & workshops offer [Rachael] | New projects around LFAP; governance and long term strategy; community food coordination; kitchen mapping All starting in March. 18 month grant. Food coordination role needs some handover. We will be hiring a deputy partnership coordinator to add some capacity. New set of outcomes. Consultancy offer: formalising what we already do. Deciding if this a local/regional or national offer? Working towards it being an offer that can expand the reach of consultancy for partners. Need to consider the insurance and liability around consultnacy | ||
| FixourFood Project [Selina]Co-i an potential partners sheet 1 pager on Towards More inclusive policymaking Drawing on involvement of co-is | Around increasing participation in local food policy. Action-based research project. | ||
| Comms [Lorna] Work in 2024 – Technical updates to the website/domain to reduce plugins which has improved speeds, and reduced spam/spoof emailing. (See screenshots below) Also added to the site is new partner filtering, a partner map, EDI statement, and updated copy. New social media banners and campaigns (#goodfoodmovement #steeltogold) Ongoing articles with telegraph are well received, Ongoing with Now Then, help from SHU ongoing. Future plans – Creating a welcome/promo pack for partners Building consultancy page Development of working group pages Further technical improvements to reduce carbon emissions | All agreed- thank you Lorna Leon to maybe run through National SFP support available | ||
| Developing Sheffield’s edible fruit tree system / economy / community [Gareth] | “Legacy Launch” of Eat Trees Sheffield project Establishing edible fruit tree theme to Food & Composting WG meeting series | ||
| Working Groups Update Good Food Economy [Selina] – Still waitting for a response from ToS about the bid, Next meeting 12th March around ‘shopping lists’ Food Ladders [Selina]- Having a break in between meetings Food, Health, Obesity Board Composting and Growing [Rachael] – 31st Jan: ‘New Year New Idea’ meeting at RegatherTBC timing: Future meeting focusing on land availability Good Food Movement [Rachael] – Next quarter: March 20th: ‘In the Kitchen’ book club, March 22nd: Green Supper hosted by Grove Rd Environmental Group TBC April 23rd: ‘Rooted’ Film Screening & panel discussion | |||
| AOB | Changes at SHU with offers of redundancy packages for staff – GR Work on draft Local Plan – GR | ST and GR to meet re meeting for Local Plan |
