Food Sense Wales is latest member to join Sustain

Sustain’s Council of Trustees have approved Food Sense Wales, housed in the Cardiff and Vale Public Health team, to join the Sustain alliance.

Food Sense Wales’ focus on ‘ensuring sustainable food, farming and fisheries are at the heart of a just, connected and prosperous food system’ goes to the very essence of what the Sustain alliance campaigns for.

The organisation’s cross-sector work developing a Good Food Movement in Wales, by increasing public awareness and participation, is a key strand that will inspire and motivate other organisations within the alliance working to build the same in England and Scotland.

Ben Reynolds, Deputy Chief Excutive of Sustain, said:

I am so pleased that we are cementing a long standing relationship between our two organisations. This has been born out of years of working together, starting from its roots in Cardiff, encouraging the growth of the Sustainable Food Places network throughout Wales, pioneering programmes to tackle holiday hunger, providing leadership on sustainable fish purchasing in the public sector and so much more that has inspired the rest of the UK and beyond. Food Sense Wales is a leading light in influencing Welsh food policy, which in turn is fast setting a bar that other nations, and particularly Westminster should look towards and follow suit.

Katie Palmer, Programme Manager at Food Sense Wales said:

"Food Sense Wales has developed a strong relationship with Sustain over the last five years, working on programmes such as Sustainable Food Places, Food Power and Bridging The Gap.  Now, as a new member of the Sustain Alliance, we look forward to drawing on the broader support of the group as well as offering up our own experiences from Wales as we head into ever increasingly and challenging times for the Food System."