The Stockport Food Partnership started in August 2022. It began in the Stockport Council Public Health team to look at the Stockport food system and how we improve this.

• In 2013 there was a similar Food Partnership, called ‘Feeding Stockport’

• In 2015, a company called ‘Food Sync’ looked at how Stockport could tackle obesity through improving the food system. This framework looked at the whole food system and we used this in the updated Food Partnership. 

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This previous work helped us build from strong foundations. With support from Sustainable Food Places we looked at the whole food system rather than problems (i.e. food insecurity, lack of access to healthy food, obesity and food waste). We wanted to look at what was great about our food system, and how we could build on the good work which was already going on.

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Steps along the way - 

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• Autumn 2022 - looking at what food policies and food work is already going on, learning about Sustainable Food Places model.

• November 2022 - April 2023, 3 workshops open to anyone in the Stockport food system, understanding what the food system looked like and how we could make a difference 

• November 2023 - 1st Stockport Food Partnership meet up, to develop ways of working together, share what people are doing, decide priorities and a set up a steering group

• April 2024 - community workshops on reducing food waste and improving community food education 

• November 2024 - 2nd Stockport Food Partnership meet up , updates on all the work and priorities, developing ideas for a funding applications

• February 2025 – got funding from Sainsburys Foundation to host a Food Coordinator for 12 months. Re:dish  (a charity in Reddish, Stockport) agreed to host this post. ​

• June - December 2025, our part-time Food Coordinator helped build our Good Food Stockport branding and develop projects with our Food Partnership. ​

• February 2026 - 3rd Stockport Food Partnership meet up, sharing the good work which our Food partners have been undertaking, sharing information and a community lunch. 

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Stockport Food Plan 

In our workshops, we built the foundations for:

• What the Stockport food system is (yellow circle)

• What are the priorities in our food system (coloured circles, petals)

• Our Vision and Approach (text boxes at the top)

• Focus areas - who are we working with in the food system? (boxes on the right)

• Outcomes - how will we know we are making changes? (box at the bottom right)