- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- 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…
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local 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
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Sustainable food news in London
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- For bread made with natural ingredients
Vote for London Food Link!
We've been shortlisted for the London Lifestyle Awards Green category. The candidate with the most votes will win, so we're calling on you to vote for us and to circulate to your network(s) to do the same.
Vote: http://londonlifestyleawards.com/vote.php
Info: http://londonlifestyleawards.com/london/
Why have we been nominated?
London Food Link is an umbrella for many different projects working to
improve the sustainability of London's food system, and has achieved the
following:
- Commitments from public sector institutions in London to redirect millions of pounds of spending on food to more sustainable options e.g. caged eggs to free range eggs (Good Food on the Public Plate)
- Supporting the creation of over 550 new community food growing spaces in London - keeping on target for 2012 spaces by the end of 2012, as part of our Capital Growth programme backed by Mayor Boris Johnson.
- Running London's only ethical eating magazine - the Jellied Eel - driving more custom to small sustainable businesses with an increased print run of 20,000 copies a quarter available free through over 80 London outlets.
- We run Ethical Eats, a free network assisting and advising London restaurants and the catering industry about practical steps and best practice to become more sustainable, with over 800 members. We helped a group of London's restaurants to be the first to receive the Marine Stewardship Council mark for selling sustainable fish, and have assisted the set up of the Sustainable Restaurant Association.
- We introduced fresh fruit and veg options into 15 shops in deprived areas across 6 London boroughs through our Buywell project, which is part of the Well London programme - this may be a small number of shops, but this makes a big difference for communities that everyone else has given up on.
- We were instrumental in getting the Olympics authorities to commit to mandatory standards to serve sustainable fish and key Fairtrade products at the 2012 games.
Please click on this link and cast your vote by the start of October.
http://londonlifestyleawards.com/london/
We'd like to thank the Big Lottery's Local Food Fund and Wellbeing fund and the Greater London Authority for funding many of the projects listed above.
For more information on London Food Link, check http://www.londonfoodlink.org/ to find out about all the benefits of joining the network, or contact georgie@sustainweb.org
Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/LondonFoodLink
Registered charity (no.