Jamie Murphy
FoodFutures Partnership Chair, Community Connector at Lancaster City Council
“I feel that food is central to how communities work. It has such a significant effect on our health, environment, culture, relationships and understanding of each other. Joining a network of people dedicated to making a difference about food locally, as a community development worker, was clearly something I needed to be part of and help to contribute to. FoodFutures is a broad, wide-ranging and welcoming network that has had a positive impact in all our communities across the North Lancashire District.”
Jamie regularly attends the FoodFutures Heart Group, Community Food Skills Working Group, Lancaster District Food Justice Partnership, and Comms and Engagement Working Group meetings.
Rachel Marshall
Healthy Food & Environment Working Group Lead, Closing Loops Project Coordinator, Eggcup Trustee
“It’s been fantastic to see the Closing Loops project emerge from the FoodFutures strategy process and I’m so excited to have this opportunity to make some of them come to life. I am holding all the different strands of the project together, whilst making sure it stays connected with all the other great work happening across the district and the FoodFutures partnership.”
Rachel regularly attends the FoodFutures Heart Group, Local Food Economy and Procurement Working Group, Healthy Food and Environment Working Group, and Comms and Engagement Working Group meetings.
Silvia Rossi
At Global Link: Closing Loops Food and Chefs Network Coordinator
“My role allows me to combine a passion for preparing healthy food with the opportunity to contribute to building community resilience around sustainable locally produced food and cooking skills. I feel privileged to be in the position to coordinate a network of passionate community cooks and professional chefs sharing the FoodFutures vision of a local food economy that is healthy, resilient and fair, and have fun along the way!“
Silvia regularly attends the Community Food Skills Working Group, and Healthy Food and Environment Working Group meetings.
Nina Osswald
Closing Loops Engagement Coordinator
“Part of my role is to engage people living in North Lancashire in the Closing Loops project – at events and by telling the world about what we’re trying to do, from composting and gleaning to cooking skills and supporting local regenerative economy projects.”
Nina regularly attends the Comms and Engagement Working Group meetings.
Jo Haughton
Communications Coordinator for Gather, The Plot and FoodFriends
Food affects our relationships, our ability to think and make good decisions, our energy and stress levels – our mental and physical health, our opportunities to enjoy and appreciate nature. We solve the food problem, we solve NHS problems and lots more besides – that is why I am here working for FoodFutures working alongside so many folks committed to making this crucial change in our society happen.Anna Clayton
FoodFutures Coordinator & Claver Hill Co-Chair
“It may seem obvious, but food is essential for life. You could say it is the currency of life. I’m involved with FoodFutures as I have seen first hand how food can be grown, processed and shared in a way that builds communities, human health and healthy environments. I want to support a movement that is working to build a just, fair and resilient food system here in North Lancashire that is aligned with groups and communities around the world that are doing the same thing.”
Anna regularly attends the FoodFutures Heart Group, Community Food Skills Working Group, Local Food Economy and Procurement Working Group, and Comms and Engagement Working Group meetings.
Ellen Pearce
Economy & Procurement Working Group co-lead, FarmStart & Northern Real Farming Conference Coordinator
“I’m passionate about local food and really committed to increasing the amount of people locally growing food, and the amount of fruit and veg grown locally.”
Ellen regularly attends the FoodFutures Heart Group, Local Food Economy and Procurement Working Group, and Comms and Engagement Working Group meetings.
Jo Stocking
Closing Loops Pots of Possibility Coordinator
“I’ve always been inspired by creative ways to minimise and reuse waste – making something from nothing seems magical somehow. I enjoy facilitating collaboration and learning, so having the opportunity to do this as part of my role is great. I look forward to supporting people, organisations and communities to get involved in building a thriving regenerative local economy here in North Lancashire.“
Jo regularly attends the Local Food Economy and Procurement Working Group meetings.
Jay Godden
At Eggcup: Gleaning Network Coordinator
“I organise gleans in the local area’s farms and growing spaces to capture food that would otherwise go to waste. I also work closely with Eggcup to find food that can’t be sold but that is still good to eat, which Eggcup redistribute to those in our district who are on a tighter budget.”
Jay regularly attends the Healthy Food and Environment Working Group meetings.
Kathy Barton
Claver Hill Co-Chair, Compost Champion and Environment Champion
“I love food and nature. I have an ongoing experiment to not buy fresh veg but eat what we grow at Claver Hill all year round. In other words, eat seasonal.”
Kathy regularly attends the Community Food Skills Working Group meetings.
Catherine Stott
Community Cooking Coordinator, Closing Loops Project
I work closely with Silvia to deliver cooking workshops in the local community. This also includes supporting the Landed Community Kitchen’s Pilot, looking at how we can provide community spaces for people to enjoy meals that use and celebrate ingredients from local organic growers. Basically, I spend a lot of time thinking about cooking and food…
Catherine regularly attends the Food Economy Working Group meetings.
Nick Lakin
Marketing and Communications Coordinator, Comms & Engagement Working Group Lead
Nick regularly attends the FoodFutures Heart Group, Community Food Skills Working Group, Local Food Economy and Procurement Working Group, Healthy Food and Environment Working Group, and Comms and Engagement Working Group meetings.
Beccy Whittle
FoodFutures Fundraiser & Community Food Skills Working Group Lead
“I love being part of FoodFutures because food is a fabulous way of bringing people together and helping us figure out how we can tackle big problems like climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality in the place where we live.”
Beccy regularly attends the FoodFutures Heart Group and Community Food Skills Working Group meetings.
Joel Stewart
Development Worker, Lancaster District Food Justice Partnership
“Everyone should have access to affordable, healthy, local food and the chance to share it with others. It is a privilege to work with local people building their own communities around just and sustainable food systems.”
Joel regularly attends the FoodFutures Heart Group and Lancaster District Food Justice Partnership meetings.
Andi Chapple
Communications Coordinator
“I work on developing the FoodFutures seasonal markets and THRIVE magazine, and work with people who have an eye on system change – this balances my tendency to focus on small-scale projects and on individuals.”
Andi regularly attends the Comms and Engagement Working Group meetings.
Diana McIntyre
Community Composting Coordinator
“I remember my grandparents’ vegetable patch and their ways of making use of everything; their enjoyment and the everyday-ness of their relationship with food (growing) and compost has been passed down to me. The community composting role is giving me an amazing opportunity to work collectively in response to the current climate, biodiversity and food challenges we all face.”
Diana regularly attends the Healthy Food and Environment Working Group meetings.
Bridget Cook
Community gardener and Food Friend
Loss of biodiversity, climate change, soil erosion, food poverty … it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the global scale of these issues. For me, it helps to tackle them at a local level and to join forces with people who share the same concerns. Being involved with Food Futures helps me to feel part of an amazing network of people in North Lancashire who are doing what they can to reverse these trends.
Bridget regularly attends the Community Food Skills and Healthy Food and Environment working groups.