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  North East Land Links
Community Interest Company 34-36 New Green Street South Shields Tyne & Wear NE33 5DL |
Her first public health role was as regional food links officer for North East Land Links project, in which she lead on Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative (PSFPI) for the northeast region. She later led a national exemplar project on Green Exercise, based in North East England. Janine is a member of the programme development group at National Institute of health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), developing guidance for physical activity and environment, due to be published in Feb 2008. Janine is a board member of North East Social Enterprise Partnerships (NESEP), and a steering group member of North East Physical Activity Forum (NEPAF). Janine has been involved in the development of social enterprise across the region at both a practical and strategic level, and has a strong interest in social economics. Janine’s has an interest in social marketing and evaluation and has initiated work regionally in these areas. Janine’s work in the field of health and environment is rooted in the principles of sustainable development and primarily concerned with public health outcomes, and social benefit. Her approach to developing solutions is to consider a cross cutting policy themes, as well as individual/community level identified needs. Janine has extensive experience working with specialist and non-specialist audiences and is interested in bringing academics, practitioners and communities together to create and sustain positive change in health and environment. Janine’s portfolio has been consistently themed with work involving disadvantaged young people. She initiated North East Obesogenic Environment Network (NEOeN) in 2007.Bill is a Chartered Environmentalist who holds a first degree in Environmental Science and a postgraduate degree in Agriculture, Farm Business Management and Marketing. He currently works for the North East Centre of Excellence (NECE) and (part time) for the School Food Trust on sustainability issues, mainly in relation to the public sector food supply chain. At present his main area of interest lies in identifying practical solutions by which caterers and procurers might be enabled to reconcile the governments sustainability and efficiency agendas in relation to food procurement; and in determining how best to secure the adoption of such practices! He has initiated national level debate on these issues, which, has led to the establishment of a National Food Procurement Action Group (PAG). As part of his School Food Trust work he is currently producing national guidance (endorsed by the PAG) the aim of which is to assist caterers and food procurers to deliver a more sustainable and efficient public sector food supply chain. Bill is involved in a variety of government and third sector working groups and projects in relation to sustainable food procurement and supply chain issues. Prior to working for NECE Bill worked for the North East Community Forests on an action research project, which eventually became the North East Land Links project. Whilst there he initiated programmes of work on community food access, waste recycling to land, sustainable food procurement and green exercise, all of which have subsequently been ‘mainstreamed’ in one form or another. NELL was characterised by its cross cutting approach to policy delivery, i.e. its ability to identify how different policy objectives might be pursued through the development of appropriate forms of cross sectoral working. This systems approach continues to characterise Bills approach to problem solving. As well as being a problem solver however he also feels strongly that there is a need for environmentalists to become more effective in securing the adoption of solutions, currently he is exploring the use of social marketing for its potential as a mechanism for achieving this. |
Janine was a professional dancer and an organic farmer before becoming a public health manager.