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Making Local Food Work is a partnership of seven organisations, each with its own area of expertise.
 | CPRE, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, is a charity which promotes the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England. It advocates positive solutions for the long-term future of the countryside. Founded in 1926, it has 60,000 supporters and a branch in every county. President: Bill Bryson. Patron: Her Majesty The Queen. http://www.cpre.org.uk |
 | Co-operativesUK is the trade association for all types of co-operative enterprise throughout the UK. It believes that co-operatives and the wider social enterprise sector make a substantial contribution to the UK economy, and provide effective sustainable solutions to many of the social and economic challenges of modern society. http://www.cooperatives-uk.coop |
 | Country Markets Ltd is a co-operative social enterprise that organises and promotes individual Country Markets throughout England, Wales and the Channel Islands. Members of the co- operative sell their high quality, genuinely home-produced baked goods, honey, eggs, fruit, vegetable, plants and crafts at over 400 weekly Country Markets, Farmers' Markets and other outlets throughout the country. Country Markets Ltd is a proud supporter and sponsor of British Food Fortnight. http://www.country-markets.co.uk |
 | The National Farmers' Retail & Markets Association (FARMA) is a co-operative of farmers, local food producers and farmers' market organisers who sell direct to the public. FARMA member farmers' markets are independently inspected and certified to ensure that they are "the real thing". FARMA works across the UK and internationally to develop the direct sales sector through proactive networking and supporting members through change. http://www.farma.org.uk/ |
 | The Plunkett Foundation is an educational charity, based in the UK near Oxford, which supports the development of rural group enterprise world-wide. With 80 years' practical experience to draw on, we advocate and support economic self-help as a means of enabling rural communities to meet their changing needs. To solve the challenges which face them such as social exclusion and deprivation we work with a range of public and private sector partners to set up social enterprises such as local food initiatives, community-owned village shops and community transport schemes. The result is more self-help solutions, and more rural groups establishing and running enterprises that provide them with essential services. In the process, more rural economies are stimulated, more jobs and training opportunities are created and English rural life can flourish as we wish it to. http://www.plunkett.co.uk/ |
 | Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity. Sustain represents around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level. http://www.sustainweb.org/ |
| The Soil Association is the UK's leading membership charity campaigning for sustainable food and farming. We believe that the health of soil, plants, animals, people and the planet are all interconnected. For more than 60 years we have worked to promote truly sustainable farming systems and a vibrant, healthy food culture that is accessible to all.
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