Good Food Nation consultation support for local authorities, health boards and communities

A more meaningful way to do Good Food Nation consultation

The Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022 sets out a clear vision: a Scotland where people from every walk of life can take pride and pleasure in, and benefit from, the food they produce, buy, cook, serve and eat each day.

We support Good Food Nation planning in Scotland through creative consultation, stakeholder engagement, food partnership development and participatory workshops. Feeldwork Futures works with local authorities, health boards and communities to create Good Food Nation Plans that are inclusive, place-based and grounded in local voices.

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what we can deliver

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  • Good Food Nation planning is not only about producing a document. It is also about building confidence within organisations to engage people well, use creative methods effectively, and make consultation a meaningful part of how food policy is shaped. We support teams and partners to strengthen their skills, widen participation, and feel more assured in delivering engagement that is thoughtful, inclusive and useful.

  • Strong Good Food Nation work depends on strong relationships. We can support the development of food partnerships that bring together local authorities, community organisations, producers, businesses and others across the food system. These partnerships help create shared direction, deepen collaboration and build the foundations for long-term action around food in place.

  • We design consultation processes that go beyond standard formats to create more inclusive, participatory and grounded engagement. By using workshops, creative methods and facilitated conversation, we help ensure that local knowledge, stakeholder insight and community voice are meaningfully reflected in the final plan.

Work With Us
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We offer support across the development of Good Food Nation Plans, from early engagement and stakeholder consultation through to facilitation, partnership-building and creative methods for public participation.

We can support with:

  • Community consultation and engagement for Good Food Nation Plans

  • Creative workshops and participatory experiences to capture the voices of residents, businesses, organisations and partners

  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement planning

  • Design and facilitation of public events, conversations and workshops

  • Food partnership development, including support to establish or strengthen local food partnerships

  • Partner and cross-sector engagement across the local food system

  • Support for councils and organisations to embed meaningful consultation into Good Food Nation work

  • Training and upskilling for staff to build confidence in using creative, inclusive and participatory engagement methods

  • Support with the food-related aspects of planning required under the Good Food Nation Act

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Our approach

We believe food planning should be grounded in place, shaped by participation and connected to lived experience.

Our methods help people engage with food through:

  • everyday life and lived experience

  • local priorities and inequalities

  • sustainability and environmental concerns

  • local food economies and producers

  • community knowledge and assets

  • imagination about what a better food future could look like

Why Feeldwork Futures?

Feeldwork Futures brings together food systems experience, creative facilitation and strategic engagement.

We have 35+ years of combined food systems experience across our team. Our founder, Gabby Morris, was a Good Food Nation Ambassador, and our wider team experience spans food systems engagement, public events, participatory practice and long-term work across food, land and community change.

Our experience includes:

  • supporting the Glasgow City Food Plan

  • delivering and designing numerous food-related events and engagement processes

  • supporting a range of food initiatives and community food activity

  • practical food systems knowledge, including involvement in setting up Scotland’s first and largest veg box scheme

  • work that connects food to place, public participation, community voice and systemic change

What makes our approach distinctive is that we do not treat food consultation as a purely technical exercise. We understand that food is lived, felt and embedded in place. We design engagement that reflects that complexity while still producing outcomes that are clear, useful and actionable.

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