Providing ‘good food for Powys’ lands a prestigious award

A partnership that is helping to provide healthier food across Powys has been recognised with a national award.

Bwyd Powys Food has won a prestigious Sustainable Food Places award, recognising its work to promote healthy, sustainable and local food and to tackle some of today’s greatest social challenges from food poverty and diet-related ill-health, to the disappearance of family farms and the loss of independent food retailers.

Bywd Powys Food is the Sustainable Food Partnership for Powys, working to create food systems change. It vision is providing ‘good food for POWYS! Where local, sustainable and healthy food supports communities, its people and the environment’.

The Sustainable Food Places Award is a national, evidence-based recognition and celebration of places taking a joined-up, holistic approach to sustainable and healthy food. Awardees have demonstrated activity and impact across their food system by the food partnership and their stakeholders to create a local ‘Good Food Movement’.

This is recognition of the excellent work of the food partnership and of stakeholders across the area.

Richard Edwards, chair of Bwyd Powys Food, said: “We are delighted to have achieved this bronze award in recognition of all the hard work of all the partners in creating food system change in Powys.”

The partnership is hosted by Cultivate and includes:

●      Powys County Council

●      Powys Teaching Health Board

●      Social Farms & Gardens

●      Our Food 1200

●      Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

●      Black Mountains College

●      Natural Resources Wales

●      Neath Port Talbot Group of Colleges

●      Mach Maethlon

More about Bwyd Powys Food who work deliver on the Powys Food Strategy and Action Plan 2024-2028. Actions already achieved include:

●      Joining the Welsh Veg in Schools programme, getting Welsh, organic vegetables into school meals in Powys.

●      Supporting the Future Farms project, enabling new entrants farmers to access land for horticulture farming using the Powys County Council farm estate

●      Launching the Powys Food Map, showing the food system across Powys, from community growing to emergency food provision, local food retailers and food events across the county.

●      Piloting subsidised veg boxes for low income families, coupled with cooking classes and shared meals in Brecon and Newtown.

To find out more about Bwyd Powys Food and become part of the good food movement in Powys, sign up to the Powys Food Charter.