Food Resilience Toolkit
“In Leeds, we want to provide people with pathways to food independence, whatever their situation.”
FoodWise Leeds has collaborated with food aid providers to co-produce the Building Food Resilience Toolkit. This Toolkit offers practical help to frontline workers, volunteers and organisations providing or looking to provide food aid to people experiencing food insecurity.
Following on from the First Edition of the Building Food Resilience Toolkit, the central approach remains the same: to support a city-wide approach on how to provide compassionate, practical support to people experiencing food insecurity, while aiming to build resilience, so that food aid users are less likely to need emergency support in the future.
The Building Food Resilience Toolkit is divided into three sections:
- Building organisational resilience
- Helping the people we support build resilience.
- The bigger picture of food resilience.
The Toolkit seeks to establish a city-wide approach on how to provide compassionate, practical support to people experiencing food insecurity and aims to build resilience, so recipients are less likely to need support in the future. We would also like to recognise the immense progress that food aid providers have made in responding to these challenges, which has meant adapting and evolving their provisions, whilst continuing to meet the growing needs of food poverty in Leeds.
Our toolkit contains advice on emergency and crisis support and helps create pathways to independence
Food resilience workshops
In March 2021, we held a workshop with food aid providers to gather their insight and experience of providing emergency food provision during the pandemic. In April 2021, we held a second workshop and heard from food aid providers and how they are transitioning their community food offer away from crisis support towards building food resilience and a more sustainable, longer-term offer including food pantries, clubs, recipe stations and more. Both webinars are available below.
Webinar 1 March 18th This session provides an overview of food aid provision in Leeds and introduces the concepts of food resilience and food citizenship.
Webinar 2 April 21st In this webinar we hear from Food Power, Fareshare Yorkshire and Rethink Food. We also learn about specific projects including New Wortley Community Centre, Health for All, Family Action, BARCA, Inn Churches and Holbeck Together.
