Gloucestershire Community Food Survey

During the Covid pandemic, Food Security was highlighted as a real risk to community members across the county. As a result the Gloucestershire Food Partnership would like to ask your help to explore Food Security, Food Access and Food Equality.

If you are a resident in Gloucestershire please help us by answering this survey. We will use your feedback to help develop a strategy about food and access to it for the county.

Q2	Please tell us about where you live:
	District Council Ward or Parish Council

	District Council

	First section of your postcode (e.g. GL7, GL54)

Access to food

How confident are you that there will always be food for you to buy locally?

Very confident

Confident

Not confident

How would you rate the quality of the food you can buy locally?

Good

Average

Poor

Where do you currently get the majority of your food? (you can tick more than one option)

Supermarkets

Local stores

Farm shops

Grow your own

Q6	How confident are you that food will be available to you in another extreme event from the following sources?
Q6		Very confident	Confident	Not confident
	Supermarkets	Supermarkets Very confident	Supermarkets Confident	Supermarkets Not confident

	Local stores	Local stores Very confident	Local stores Confident	Local stores Not confident

	Farm shops	Farm shops Very confident	Farm shops Confident	Farm shops Not confident

	Growing your own	Growing your own Very confident	Growing your own Confident	Growing your own Not confident

Food locally produced

"Local food" is defined as food or drink that has been grown, raised or made within 30 miles of the point of sale, or in the same county as the point of sale.

Do you currently have access to locally produced food?

Yes

Q8	Please place the following in order of importance to you when buying food:
Q8		Most important	Somewhat important	Least important
	Price	Price Most important	Price Somewhat important	Price Least important

	Organic	Organic Most important	Organic Somewhat important	Organic Least important

	Locally produced	Locally produced Most important	Locally produced Somewhat important	Locally produced Least important

Q11

What are the barriers or perceived barriers for you in buying locally produced food? Please tick all that apply:

I don't know what local food is produced in my area

I perceive it to be more expensive

I don't know where to buy locally produced food in my area

There are no barriers

I don't have transport to get to local suppliers

Other

	If other, please tell us:

Q12

Would you be interested in supporting any of the following? Please tick all that apply:

Local veg box scheme

Local shops selling local produce

A Community Supported Agriculture scheme (where you pay a farmer to grow food for your community)

Allotments

Community Orchards

Food bank

Land available to the community to grow food, other than allotments

Your local farming community to supply food to you

Q13

Do you have a project in which members of your community get together to grow food?

Yes

Don't know

Q14	If yes, please tell us about it:

Q15

Do you think your community would be interested in a project where people get together to grow food?

Yes

Don't know

Food and Farming

We want to support local farmers to grow locally produced food for us, as well as supporting them to adopt healthier farming practices in food production, improving air, water and soil quality, biodiversity recovery, and adopting more natural flood management practices. All of these actions combined will help support our local economy, creating jobs for our communities.

Q16

Would you prefer to buy local food produced in this way if it was affordable?

Yes

Don't know

Q17

Would you like to become more involved in supporting the farming community, either in food production or in helping to reduce environmental impact?

Yes

Don't know

Q18

If yes, which of the following would be barriers that would prevent you from becoming more involved?

Transport

Availability

Other

	If other, please explain:

Q19	Are there any comments you would like to make?

Q20	Would you like to be involved in developing the Gloucestershire Food & Farming Strategy? If yes, please provide your contact details below then tick the consent box to confirm. We will only contact you about opportunities relating to this project. Funding is available for participation for those interested to shape Gloucestershire's food vision.
	Name

	Email address

	Telephone number

Q21

Please tick to confirm you would like to get involved with and be kept informed about Gloucestershire Food Strategy and consent to your contact details being kept and used for this purpose.

I agree

This survey is being conducted by GRCC on behalf of the Gloucestershire Food Partnership. GRCC and Gloucestershire Food Partnership commit to keeping your personal data secure and will not share your contact details with anyone else without your permission. Your contact details will be retained securely in keeping with GDPR and will only be used to contact you about opportunities relating to this project.

GRCC is a registered charity (no. 1054282) and a Company Limited by Guarantee (no. 3181755).

Thank you for taking part!