Establishing Food Ladders means ensuring that the ladders are complete and available to everyone in the place where they live. Critical to this is having an understanding of what already exists and where the gaps are. This tool explains the rungs in more detail, provides some examples of activities that fit on each rung, and supplies a printable template that you can use to evaluate the activities that different organisations offer against the ladder’s rungs.
Consider the following when you start mapping activity onto rungs:
- Start with an area (ward level is about right), and consider the activities as they occur at a particular time in that area.
- Use a different colour for each activity; for example, if a community organisation offers a free food parcel on a Tuesday with a referral service, and on a Thursday, another group (or the same) provides a social eating activity with asylum seekers who help prepare the food, then use one colour for the Tuesday activity, and another for the Thursday activity. You will also want to keep a key that identifies the colours with the activity and the organisation that offers it.
- For each activity, think about the outcome and how it is done. Also, think about who is involved and how they are involved. You may want to review the parts of the ladder and also the case study examples just to remind yourself what you are looking food.
- With support, you can ask organisations to plot their activities onto the ladder themselves or ask community members to consider what is available where they live. We have provided this downloadable template and workshop guide.
Time to read:
1–2 minutes
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