Multiple dates: Met with staff running Norwich- and Norfolk-based food banks and social supermarkets, to explore ways to provide additional fresh, seasonal food to their service users. This including gaining a better understanding of service provision by volunteering at the Norwich Food Bank on two days. 3 October 2024: Held a stall at a Norwich Society conference on “Adapting our city for climate change” to help attendees learn about the links between food and climate change (both mitigation and adaptation), the scale of the issues, and what we can do to change our food system to address climate change. 15-16 October 2025: Attended the annual, national Sustainable Food Places conference. This is an opportunity to learn about what other food partnerships are doing around the country and bring ideas back to Norwich and Norfolk. 12 November 2024: gave a presentation on the “Farm Starts” model of supporting the development of market garden businesses at the Suffolk Food Summit. 13 November 2024: Participated in Sustainable Food Place’s Day of Celebration and Action in Westminster. Lobbied MPs on the importance of food partnership working to address a wide range of social and environmental concerns. 12 November 2024: gave a presentation on the “Farm Starts” model of supporting the development of market garden businesses at the Suffolk Food Summit December 2025: attended a presentation on “Food vs Nature and the role of community food growing” hosted by the Incredible Edible and the Right to Grow Learning Network. Incorporated some of the learning from this session into the SFN response to Norwich City Council’s consultation on parks and green spaces. December 2024: SFN responded to a Norwich City Council consultation on their Parks and Green Spaces strategy, to advocate for the greater incorporation of edible plants in the city strategy, moving towards Norwich becoming and edible city. This can help address both food and nutritional poverty, while also improving biodiversity. SFN also encouraged a wide range of partners to also response to this consulation. 8-10 January 2025: Attended the Oxford Real Farming Conference, gathering ideas and inspiration for projects in Norwich and Norfolk. 21 January 2025: attended Tim Lang’s talk on “Civil food resilience and UK preparedness for food system shocks.” Incorporated his findings in future SFN presentations to stakeholders and the general public. 25 January 2025: Participated in the Reimagine Norwich strategy day, to ensure all the aspects of food that Sustainable Food Norwich addresses are included in the work of Reimagine Norwich. 13 February 2025: NISD invited Emily Norwich to give a presentation on “Farming in 2050: a 25-year vision for England's food, farming and land use”. At the Norwich Science Festival (22 February 2025), Sustainable Living Initiative’s open gardens day (25 April 2025), Bugs and Beasts at Henderson Community Park (13 August 2025), and the Aylsham Show (25 August 2025), gave interactive “soil sponge” demonstrations throughout the day, so people can visualise the difference between dirt and soil and how this impacts the landscape; understand the links between farming/gardening methods and the soil sponge; and discover how a healthy soil sponge can help mitigate the effects of climate change, particularly droughts, flooding and wildfires. These demos give people a greater sense of agency in addressing climate change. At the Norwich Science Festival (19 February 2025) and the Lefoy Road Community Garden Open day (22 September 2024), we ran interactive sessions throughout the day on the research of Prof Tim Spector and team on the health benefits of eating 30 different plant varieties each week, highlighting the link between our diets, our gut health and our physical/mental health. This included fun activities for children to engage them in menu planning for a week; showing what is possible using free, nutritious, forageable foods; and free take-away menu planners and list of plant foods. Children, parents and grandparents said they felt inspired to increase their consumption of plant foods. 18 March 2025: held a stall at the University of East Anglia Climate Week, to discuss with students how they make food choices and what the university could do differently to help them afford nutritious food. 17 April 2025: Met with the head farmer at Easton College, to explore ways to improve links between the college and the Norwich Research Park. 24 April 2025: Gave a presentation to Level 2 agriculture students at Easton College, covering how farming practices can affect climate change, biodiversity, water supplies and more, for the better or for the worse. 29 April 2025: Held a stall at the UEA Medical School’s Green Day, to highlight the links between diet and health; to show innovative approaches to UK hospital catering and food procurement to improve patient outcomes; to highlight the work of the Lancet Commission on the links between climate change and health; to demonstrate the links between climate change, food security and public health, and to demonstrate the financial impact on the NHS of food poverty and malnutrition. This has an impact on Medical School staff and students who attended. 1 May 2025: Gave a presentation to the Norwich Climate Commission on the links between food and climate change. This resulted in the Commission inviting representation from SFN onto the Commission and Norwich City Council beginning to explore how to incorporated food into its climate change strategy. 18 June 2026: participated in the roundtable discussion of the UEA’s 10th annual Blaikie Lecture, highlighting the potential of deeply regenerative thinking around food systems for addressing social and environmental concerns. 25 June 2025: participated in the Royal Norfolk Show, holding a stall in the STEM tent, reaching out to young people about food and farming.

We have consulted with Norwich- and Norfolk-based providers of emergency food and social supermarkets, to explore ways the partnership can support the provision of nutrient-dense foods to people experiencing food poverty. In response, we have approached the city council to establish a programme for allotment holders to grow a row of fresh produce to supply to local food banks and social supermarkets.

No remuneration was received by either Natasha Grist or Josh Smith. Sabine Virani was remunerated £2,000 for her work work drafting two papers for Norwich City Council regarding the need for a sustainable food action plan for the city.

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