Pledge “VFMBristol”
"I will support the development of a Virtual Farmers Market for Bristol if it is selected as a finalist in the Nesta Big Green Challenge but only if 20 other local people or organisations will do the same."
— Connecting Bristol, Bristol's Digital Partnership (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 30th June 2008
30 people signed up (10 over target)
Country: United Kingdom
Place: Bristol (view map)
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The Virtual Farmers’ Market aims to facilitate the distribution of local food and drink from producers and allotment owners to communities in Bristol, reducing emissions at every stage of the food chain. The Virtual Farmers' Market will deploy cutting edge technology, and offer communities an easy way to order online, the exact food and drink they want and have it delivered to their doorstep. Suppliers will benefit from a wide marketing campaign and a growing online and offline community interested in local food. The proposal has already successfully passed through to the second stage of the Nesta Big Green Challenge (www.biggreenchallenge.org.uk).
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Connecting Bristol, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Kevin O'Malley
- stephen hilton
- Jennifer Everitt
- Dr Rowland Dye
- Ed Mitchell
- Carol Hayward
- Steve Clampin
- Jaya Chakrabarti
- kate whittle
- Scott Jacobs-Lange
- Liz Brinkley
- Brian Titley
- Jonathan Gadsby
- Emma Winfield
- Caroline Nash
- Claire McQuillan
- Jennie Jones
- Simon Boice
- Glenn Vowles
- Emily Nicholson
- 1 person who did not want to give their name
- 9 people who signed up in Facebook
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We are sorry to report that Bristol’s Virtual Farmers Market bid to NESTA has not made it through to the next round. NESTA’s specific feedback says,
“We are sorry not to have been able to invite you to pitch to the Big Green Challenge Judges. The overall quality of detailed plans was high, and all of the ideas worthwhile, so our decision was not an easy one.
We wanted to provide some specific feedback on your idea. Our Reviewers thought this project has great potential and could be a model for other cities and therefore of great significance in the longer term. They praised your ambition to create a step change in the attitudes and approaches of a whole town towards food. Our Reviewers suggest further planning and partnership development would be useful before running the project. The Reviewers also highlighted the large jump between 25 households and 400,000+ people and suggested that you to consider a slightly larger pilot in order to test viability.
We hope that you will continue to develop and act on your ideas, and we wish you every success with this.”
In al honesty, the core team (Matt, Kevin and I) were not fully happy with the quality of the final submission so the judges’ decision is not a surprise. On the positive side, we still believe that the VFM idea is strong and that Overlay Media’s location-aware mobile solution is very innovative. Clare Milne, the Bristol Food Links Development Worker is keen to incorporate the VFM into future Bristol bids, including to the lottery, so our efforts will not be wasted. Thanks for your support.
Stephen