Limerick Food Partnership

Limerick Food Partnership (LFP) is a strategic collaboration between voluntary organisations, community organisations and statutory agencies, hosted by PAUL Partnership. The overall aim of Limerick Food Partnership is to raise awareness, improve access and increase the supply of healthy food options to its target communities in Limerick City and County. This will be achieved through a range of interventions.

Limerick Food Partnership is managed by a Steering Group, comprising of representatives from:

Ballyhoura Development CLG
Health & Wellbeing Department, HSE
Health Promotion & Improvement, HSE
Limerick and Clare Education & Training Board
Limerick City & County Council
Limerick CYPSC
Limerick Enterprise Development Partnership (LEDP)
Mary Immaculate College
Mid West SIMON
PAUL Partnership CLG
Redemptorists, Limerick
St Vincent de Paul
West Limerick Resources CLG

Objectives of Limerick Food Partnership:

To raise awareness in local communities around healthy food and healthy lifestyle
To build individual and community capacity to enhance their food related skills (e.g. menu plan, budget preparation & cooking) through evidence based training & education programmes (e.g. Cook it and Healthy Food Made Easy)
Supporting the development of existing and new Community Food initiatives in Limerick City and County
To facilitate intercultural integration and diversity through food partnership initiatives
To create and sustain a repository of information on available food initiatives and food poverty
To explore long-term sustainability of initiatives and opportunities for mainstreaming
To influence policy related to food supply and trade
To promote the availability and sustainability of healthy food options at reasonable prices and reducing food waste, without exploiting people or the environment, locally or worldwide.

This project is being delivered throughout Limerick City and County.

In December 2020, the Limerick Food Partnership was formally relaunched by the Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, Cllr. Michael Collins. For more information about the re-launch, click here: Relaunch of Limerick Food Partnership

Eileen Humphreys, Social Policy and Local Development researcher, Limerick City and County Council, Fr Seamus Enright, Joint Chair Limerick Food Partnership, Christine Gurnett, Senior Community Dietician, HSE, Olivia O’Brien, Limerick Food Partnership Coordinator, and Cllr Michael Collins, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick.
Photo by Diarmuid Greene

Olivia O’Brien, Limerick Food Partnership Coordinator, Professor Niamh Hourigan, joint chair, Limerick Food Partnership, David Studer, CYPSC, Anne Ryan, Health & Wellbeing, HSE Mid-West, and Cllr Michael Collins, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick.
Photo by Diarmuid Greene

To find out more about the work of Limerick Food Partnership:

Contact:

Olivia O Brien, Limerick Food Partnership Coordinator

T: 061 419388

M: 087 4420995

E: oobrien@paulpartnership.ie

Twitter: @food_limerick

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