- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Free training on healthy and sustainable food for public sector caterers
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- The best possible round-up of sustainable food news in London
- 2,012 new food growing spaces for London by 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- To increase the enjoyment, production and consumption of bread made with natural ingredients
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- About the campaign
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- Press releases
- Campaign coverage
- News update
- Useful links on public sector food
- Campaign supporters
News
MP acts to address ‘bog’ standards of public sector food - Joan Walley, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, today launched a campaign for legally binding standards to improve public sector food
Senior government adviser calls for legal standards for hospital food - Professor Tim Lang, a leading expert in food policy and prominent government adviser, today joined campaigners to call for legally binding standards to improve hospital food.
The Portcullis Counter
We have lots of meetings with MPs from all political parties at Westminster to campaign for mandatory standards for public sector food. For a bit of fun, we're showing a record of these meetings at Portcullis House by copying the security passes we needed to get in...... We'll stop when we achieve Good Food for Our Money legislation!
Take action now
We urgently need your support - send a message to your MP asking them to back the Bill for better public sector food. Send your message now
The Campaign
Each year the government spends more than £2 billion on food served in the public sector - including in schools (£600m per year), hospitals (£300m per year), care homes and the armed forces (£135m per year). The Good Food for Our Money campaign is calling on government to introduce mandatory health, animal welfare, ethical and environmental standards for this food.
Find out more about the campaign here
A new Bill to transform
public sector food
On 30 June 2010, Joan Walley MP for Stoke-On-Trent North introduced to Parliament the 'Public Bodies (Sustainable Food) Bill'. If passed, this Bill would:
- require government to create health, environmental and social standards for all public sector food
- develop these standards over time
- set out a framework by which the standards will be introduced by all public sector organisations
The Good Food for Our Money campaign is working to support Joan's Bill. We will update the website with more information about how you can help us to do this soon. Read Joan's statement about the Bill here.
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Contact
Contact Alex Jackson by email at alex@sustainweb.org or by telephone on 020 7837 1228. You can also follow us on Facebook.
