Our Projects

Local food matters. It connects people to the land. It creates opportunities for farmers to provide food directly to their customers and helps communities to build skills, trading systems, networks and resilience. Local food can also have many benefits for the local economy, community regeneration, health and the environment.

Funded by the Big Lottery Fund as part of its Changing Spaces programme, Making Local Food Work is rooted in the belief that the needs of consumers, producers and the land are interdependent, and that community enterprise can renew and strengthen these links to the lasting benefit of all.

Over the next five years, £10 million will be invested into local food initiatives across rural and urban England, increasing access to fresh, healthy food with good, traceable origins.

The Plunkett Foundation is leading a group of organisations, who are using their expertise and specialist knowledge to offer advice and practical assistance to a range of enterprises. Together, we are developing and promoting sustainable ways to reconnect land and people through food.

Please use the links on the left hand side to find more information about the different ways in which we're working and how you can get involved.
At any point, you can sign up for our email updates and find out who to contact for more information.

For a handy overview of the programme, you can now download our overview of Making  Local Food Work.