ARCHIVE: Eat Somerset working party members
During the first phase of the project, Eat Somerset benefited from the support of a wide range of organisations and individuals, who shared their time, expertise, contacts, and sometimes financial support - either in kind or directly. Eat Somerset also ran a working party to share information and help develop the work of the project. Members in the first phase of the Eat Somerset project (now finished) included:
- Christina Ballinger, Somerset Organic Link
- Jonathan Bayne, Londis
- Alison Belshaw, Sustain, Eat Somerset Project Officer
- Rosie Blackburn, Sustain, Good Food on the Public Plate Project Officer
- Steve Bone, Government Office for the South West
- Alan Bonner, Radstock Cooperative Society
- Liz Bowles, English Farming and Food Partnership
- Chris Brannagan, South West Regional Development Agency
- Shane Brennan, Association of Convenience Stores
- Sue Chant, Somerset Primary Care Trust
- John Cotterell, Gundenham Dairies
- Kath Dalmeny, Sustain, Deputy Co-ordinator
- Christine Goodall, Natural England
- Ann Guilding, Agricultural Development Officer, Sedgemoor District Council
- Chris Head, Envolve
- Vicki Hird, Friends of the Earth
- Mary Hughes, Independent consultant
- Mike Johns, South West Regional Development Agency
- Dan Keech, New Economics Foundation
- Andy MacLachlan, Co-op
- Steve Marriott, Bristol City Council
- Christine Marshall, South West Food and Drink
- Andrew Moore, Somerset Food Links (Chair)
- Sue Morris, Taste of the West
- Helen Pinnock, Bristol City Council
- Kirsty Righton, Soil Association
- Nicky Saunter, Somerset Food Links
- John Sheaves, Taste of the West
- Toni Smith, Food Standards Agency South West regional coordinator
- Veronica Talbot, Long Sutton village store
- Judith Ward, South West Food and Drink
- Nick Webber, South West Rural Enterprise Gateway Project Officer
- Jan Wheatley, Booker
- John Wilcox, Booker, Taunton
- Jane Wildblood, Bath and North East Somerset Council
Retailers, producers and producer groups were also invited to join the working party as and when they became involved in project activity.