The Tweed Shire Council is hosting a two day Food for Thought Forum next month and the Northern NSW Local Health District Health Promotion team is offering to subsidise the cost for five places.
Tweed Council will present the forum which will bring together a range of stakeholders along the food supply chain. The forum will highlight existing local and regional food initiatives and identify opportunities and potential areas for investment.
The aim of the forum is to help ensure the region is making the most of the opportunities on offer by sharing lessons learnt from local food initiatives; showcasing local food success stories from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria; exploring possibilities on a way forward to boost the local food economy; and showcasing local food, agricultural industries, food tourism and sustainable economic and community initiatives.
Interested parties from along the food chain will benefit from the forum. From farmers and local producers and food wholesalers, manufacturers and retailers, to the hospitality sector and transport, distribution, storage, packing companies, tourism and events operators as well as those from the agricultural and planning and economic development sectors and community and cultural development representatives and students will find something of interest.
Speakers will include Anthony Flaccavento, president, SCALE (Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies); Kathryn Scharf, Chief Operating Officer of Community Food Centres Canada; and Dr Nick Rose, William Angliss Institute, Melbourne.
Subsidies available for food forum
The Northern NSW Local Health District Health Promotion team is looking for people who are passionate about improving access to local, healthy food and who care about food security and our capacity to grow and distribute food in an ecologically healthy regional economy to apply for a subsidy to attend the forum.
In order to apply for the subsidy, you need to demonstrate the role you play in promoting access to healthy food; be able to identify strategies or potential partners in your current role to improve accessibility to healthy local food; say what do you hope to learn from the forum and how might you apply this and why you need financial assistance to attend.
The team is offering to subsidise five places by $100 each, which would reduce the cost to $150 for the two day forum.
For more info about the forum, visit: http://www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/FoodForThought.
Registrations close August 5.
To apply for the subsidy, email your contact details and application of up to 500 words to:
Adam Guise, Health Promotion Officer, [email protected]
or phone 02 6620 2553 by Monday 1 August. Successful applicants will be contacted by Wednesday August 4.
