CURRENT PROJECT
Food Poverty Alliance
Cambridge Food Poverty Alliance is funded by Food Power and Cambridge City Council.
WHAT IS IT
According to the Centre for Cities 2017 report, Cambridge has been named as the city with the highest level of income inequality in the UK. Cambridge City Food Bank gave 3-day emergency food supplies to 6,458 people in crisis in 2017, a 27% increase from 2016.
The Cambridge Food Poverty Alliance (CFPA), formed in October 2017, aims to work together strategically and collaboratively to alleviate food poverty in the city. In October 2018 the Alliance published a report on the scale and experiences of food poverty in Cambridge and in Sept 2019 a report on Food Deserts and Food Swamps in Cambridge.
The Steering group includes Cambridge City Council, Cambridge City Foodbank, FoodCycle, CHS Group, Church of The Good Shepherd, Cambridge Community Ethnic Forum, and Cambridge United Charitable Trust.
The Alliance also includes 25 organisations who act as members of the Alliance. If you wish to join the Alliance please contact us.
MISSION
The Alliance is working to:
share resources, best practice and information locally
research what has been done successfully elsewhere
Deliver it’s Collaborative Food Action Plan to ensure an evidence-based joined-up approach to food poverty in the City
THE ACTION PLAN
The Alliance is led by Cambridge Sustainable Food who have coordinated the work on the newly published Cambridge Food Poverty Alliance - A Collaborative Action Plan for Cambridge This Action plan, endorsed in full by Cambridge City City Council will direct the work of the Alliance for the next three years.
RESOURCES
If you or someone you know is struggling to buy food, please use our Emergency Signposting Toolkit to find resources that can help you.
If you are pregnant or have a child under four years old then you could be entitled to Healthy Start Vouchers with which you can buy vegetables, milk or vitamins. View our useful information poster for more information.
Cambridge Sustainable Food also partnered with The Edge Cafe to install a Community Fridge, where organisations and households can make perishable food that would have been wasted available to the local community.
For community food provision services, please refer to:
Church Meals (donations welcome)