Food for Health not Wealth

A community conversation about the food system in Bradford and Leeds with special guest Cormac Russell.

FoodSavers isn’t just a response to food poverty: we’re built on a vision of a community-owned food system built on trust, dignity, and the gifts already in our communities.

Come and help us name what we already have in Bradford and Leeds, imagine what’s next, and decide together how we take ownership of our food future.

Cormac Russell is the founding director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, at De Paul University in Chicago.

He has spent 30 years helping communities discover that the answers are usually already here in the people, the gifts, and the connections we haven’t yet made.

Programme

10:00 Keynote talk – Community-centred leadership: what it means and why it matters

11:00 Local voice – Sam Kirkby (pantry host and community leader at Sutton Centre) in conversation with Cormac

11:45 Keynote talk – The role of funders: what does good funding look like when communities lead?

12.30 Lunch together (included with ticket) – time to connect, rest & continue the conversation

13:15 Workshops – real dilemmas: the “To–For–With–By” frame and the “swim lanes”: building mutual alliance between communities & institutions

14:15 Debrief and whole-room discussion: What did we discover? What needs to shift?

14.45 Keynote talk – Reading the tea leaves: the future of food sovereignty

15:00 Onwards together