Lessons in Loaf is the Real Bread Campaign’s scheme to encourage people who can bake bread to share this valuable life skill with children in schools. This handbook goes beyond the fun and practical life skill of baking, containing lesson plans, recipes, information and ideas to help teachers get children at Key Stage 2 thinking and asking questions about the food they eat, where it comes from and how it is made.

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This 2012 report, complied by a coalition of gardening and education charities, highlights the benefits of food-growing activities in schools and makes the case for the Department for Education to ensure that every school provides the opportunity for children to reap these benefits.

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This guide is designed to help bring more wholefood co-operatives into the world by spreading the business model tried and tested by Unicorn Grocery Worker Co-operative in Manchester since 1996. Unicorn Grocery was established to provide an alternative to the supermarket norm. They have achieved this goal on their own premises, but say they have not fulfilled their purpose until people stop driving across the country to shop with them. The business model is just one of many alternatives, but they would love to see more places like Unicorn in a better food system.

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The report explains why government must introduce mandatory health, environmental, animal welfare and ethical standards for public sector food. It is co-written by a number of authors who are experts in their respective fields.

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This report from Capital Growth reflects on how community food growing and horticultural enterprises can support the aims of the East London Green Grid - a major regeneration and development programme working to transform East London over the coming 20 to 30 years.

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This report is one of a series that analyses opportunities for improving the sustainability and economic viability of food supply chains serving smaller and community-based food enterprises.

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This survey of 140 parks around the UK found only 11% had fountains, and in only two thirds of these parks were any of the fountains working. This encourages thirsty children to turn to sugary alternatives or go without, both of which are bad for their health.

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A second, updated report analysing government spending from 2000 to 2010 that has been wasted on failed voluntary attempts to improve hospital food. The bill for failed government initiatives continues to rise, reaching £54m over the past decade.

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A Real Bread Campaign investigation of UK supermarket in-store bakeries, concluding that many supermarket in-store bakery loaves are produced using artificial additives and processing aids and that many are not being baked from scratch on site but produced elsewhere to be re-baked at a later date as and when needed.

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A briefing document produced by the Good Food for Our Money campaign calling for legally binding sustainability standards for seafood served in public sector institutions such as government departments, hospitals, schools, prisons and the armed forces.

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