Supporting Local Food Online

Please note, this page was last updated in June 2020

Many small food businesses have moved their trade online during the lockdown. Sustain has curated a (non-exhaustive) list of websites which host several independent food businesses selling their produce and products. 

If you are a food organisation looking to sell your products online, we have collated some useful resources here

Good Food Businesses: rebuilding, reopening and retaining new customers - listen again to our webinar. 

National directories

Here is a list of national directories, many of which have a map to help with area-based searches: 

• Baker Direct - find a bakery who delivers to your door across England, Scotland and Wales 
• Better Food Traders - a map of food retailers who are both good for people and the planet 
• Big Barn - Buy produce direct from their website, or their map lists local businesses and market stalls you can buy directly from 
• Cheese Tasting  - buy from cheesemongers across the UK and Ireland who usually sell to retail 
• DeliverAll - a list of businesses across the UK who are delivering  
• Farming UK - a great directory of local farm shops 
• Farm Drop - an online shop that allows customers to buy food direct from producers via a community buying group. 
• Farms to Feed Us - a database of small-scale food producers across the UK who supply fresh produce that has been grown in a resilient farming system. 
• Food Chain - An app which used to match specialist suppliers to restaurants which has now opened up to delivery to households 
• Food Made Good - Sustainable Restaurant Association map of restaurant deliveries 
• Foodens - Buy food boxes with lowest milage from your house 
• Fresh Range - delivery of sustainably produced and responsibly sourced products across England and Wales
• Harvest Bundle - an online farmers market selling fruit&veg, meat, fish, dairy and Deli products 
• My Local Produce - a newly set up web shop for independent food businesses to sell through their platform to their local residents  
• Neighbourfood   A list of markets selling organic produce around the UK now with staggered collections and a delivery service 
• On Your Doorstep - a directory of local retailers, not limited to food
• Open Food Network - find a local producer/retailer selling locally in your region 
• Real Bread Map - a list of bakeries across the UK  
• Shopappy UK - map of small organisations across the UK where you can buy directly from the website 
• Soil Association - a map of local independent retailers, farm gates and farm shops
• Sustain List -  we have started to populate a list of organisations now providing delivery services, to add organisations, please contact ren@sustainweb.org
• The Great British Food Hub - click and collect model of lots of local food hubs, bringing together producers and retailers

Regional lists

Here are regional lists of delivery services and local food organisations. Please get in touch if your area has their own webpage so we can keep this list updated. 

Region	Webpage
Aberdeen	Community Food Initiative Food Directory
Aberystwyth	Aberystwyth Food Hub
Bath & North East Somerset	Sustainable Food Partnership
Brighton (& Sussex)	Brighton Quarantine  Florence Road Market Sussex Pheasant - mobile farm shop Takeaway & Delivery
Bristol	The Bristol Lockdown Economy  Bristol Food Union
Bucks	Hiya Bucks Takeaway Hiya Bucks Essentials The Risborough Basket
Cardiff	Cardiff Delivers Riverside Market  Shop Cardiff
Cambridge	Cambridge Local Shops
Cornwall	Tamar Valley Food Hub  Helston Food Hub
Cotswalds	Cotswald Taste and pdf list
Edinburgh	Slow Food Edinburgh
Exeter	Lockdown Exeter   Good Food Exeter
Greater Manchester	Manchester's Finest  Stockport Market
Hampshire	Hampshire Fare
Herefordshire	WISH Herefordshire (regional and local)
Kent	Kent Farmers Market
Lancaster	Lancaster District
Lincoln	Lincoln Indie Takeaways Visit Lincoln
Liverpool	Lids
London	Food businesses delivering:  Sustain List - please get in touch to add to the list Lockdown Locals  Crowdsourced list of essential goods providers and delivery  Live Local  Borough Market  Craved  Greenwich Food Traders  Wallington Farmers Market Hounslow Farm produce:  Farm Drop (also national) The Better Food Traders (also national) Nourished Communities (North & East) South London Club Veg delivery
Middlesbrough	Buy Boro
North East	North East Food Collaborative  Food and Drink North East Foodful
Oxfordshire	Bitten Oxford Cultivate Oxford Local Oxford
Peak District	Sauced Here
Scotland	Scotland Food and Drink
Sheffield	Sheffield Coronavirus Directory  Sheffield Delivery Guide Sheffield Markets  Sustainable Food Providers Collective
Stroud	StroudCo
Swansea	List from Swansea council, or download excel sheet Mumbles Traders  Swansea Indoor Market

Sustain has also collated businesses that will deliver fish to your door and check out our real bread map to support these producers