This charter sets out key principles and best practice to support the work of local Food Aid providers across Leeds. The long term goal of this charter is to work together to help people build food resilience.
Resilience is the ability to prepare for, withstand, and recover from a crisis or disruption. Building food resilience can be achieved by creating pathways leading to the same shared vision that everyone in Leeds has access to healthy, sustainable and fair food.
A key task in building this resilience across the community is to ensure support is available for people in an emergency or crisis, and people needing longer term support to tackle the root causes of food insecurity. We must adopt a proactive and ambitious approach to ensure a consistent decrease in the use of food aid projects year after year.
By signing this charter, providers are agreeing to work in line with the agreed principles and play their part in working together to develop long term and sustainable approaches to tackle food insecurity in Leeds, which in turn will reduce the need for crisis support and food bank provision.
This charter has been co-developed by the Food Insecurity Taskforce and people who have lived experience of food insecurity.
A Pdf of the charter is below:
