A selection of recent prominent appearances by Sustain projects and campaigns in the press.

Grocery Gazette

Quarter of UK households with children under four experienced food insecurity this year

Vera Zakharov comments.

Monday 3 April 2023 | Visit

The Guardian

British cows could be given ‘methane blockers’ to cut carbon emissions

Vicki Hird, head of farming for Sustain, comments

Sunday 2 April 2023 | Visit

The Independent

Sadiq Khan pledges free meals during school holidays and weekends for low-income London pupils

Barbara Crowther, Children’s Food Campaign Co-ordinator, comments

Wednesday 29 March 2023 | Visit

Lambeth London Borough Council

Lambeth’s award-winning food leadership recognised

About London Food Link's 'Good Food for All Londoners' report

Wednesday 29 March 2023 | Visit

Westminster City Council

Award winning council widens access to healthy food

Quote from Kath Dalmeny, Chief Executive at Sustain. About London Food Link's 'Good Food for All Londoners' report.

Wednesday 29 March 2023 | Visit

The Grocer

India trade deal could expose UK food to harmful chemicals, campaigners warn

Sustain comments

Wednesday 22 March 2023 | Visit

The Observer

Thérèse Coffey’s ‘eat turnips’ message leaves bitter taste after UK’s biggest grower gives up

Vicki Hird, Head of Sustainable Farming,  comments.

Saturday 18 March 2023 | Visit

International Business Times

Food security in the UK: The post-Brexit reality for farming and fishing

Orla Delargy, Head of Public Affairs, comments.

Monday 13 March 2023 | Visit

Mail Online

School meals `should be free for all just like desks and chairs´

Barbara Crowther from the Children’s Food Campaign comments

Thursday 9 March 2023 | Visit

The Independent

School meals ‘should be free for all just like desks and chairs’

Barbara Crowther from the Children’s Food Campaign comments

Thursday 9 March 2023 | Visit

Wales Online

Call for universal free school meals across the UK

Thursday 9 March 2023 | Visit

Irish News

School meals ‘should be free for all just like desks and chairs'

Thursday 9 March 2023 | Visit

Public Sector Catering

UK food crisis will get worse unless supply chain gets more care

Reference of Sustain report 'Unpicking Food Prices'

Thursday 9 March 2023 | Visit

The Guardian

Should we cherish our turnips? Why the British food system may need a reboot

Vicki Hird, head of sustainable farming, comments

Friday 24 February 2023 | Visit

The Telegraph

The Tories have abandoned farmers – and risk losing the rural vote

Mention of Sustain report 'Unpicking Food Prices' within context of NFU conference

Tuesday 21 February 2023 | Visit

BBC

Free school meals: London's mayor launches £130m scheme for primary pupils

Barbara Crowther from the Children's Food Campaign comments.

Monday 20 February 2023 | Visit

The Sun

Major change to free school meals for children – will you be affected? Noa Hoffman

Barbara Crowther from the Children's Food Campaign comments

Monday 20 February 2023 | Visit

The Mirror

EXCLUSIVE: Free school meals for all primary kids in London, announces capital's mayor Sadiq Khan

Barbara Crowther of the Children’s Food Campaign contributes.

Sunday 19 February 2023 | Visit

The Independent

Free school meals for every primary school pupil in London as Sadiq Khan unveils £130m scheme

Sunday 19 February 2023 | Visit

Express and Star

Annual campaign putting spotlight on 'Real Bread'

Information on Real Bread week, coordinated by The Real Bread Campaign

Saturday 18 February 2023 | Visit

The Telegraph

The rise and fall of sourdough shows that lockdown tastes are waning

'Members of the Real Bread Campaign, which represents independent bakers, are sourdough purists who are miffed that the code permits bread containing commercial yeast to be marketed as sourdough under such weaselly locutions as “with sourdough” and “sourdough flavour”. They propose an Honest Crust Act to separate the sourdough from the sourfaux.'

Wednesday 8 February 2023 | Visit

The Telegraph

Bakers in furious row over proper way to make a sourdough

Chris Young, coordinator for the Real Bread Campaign comments.

Saturday 4 February 2023 | Visit

The Guardian

Public health groups urge Rishi Sunak to widen free school meals programme

Sustain and the Children's Food Campaign join leading public health organisations in a letter to the Prime Minister, expressing growing concerns about rising child food insecurity and obesity as a result of the cost of living crisis, and the need for urgent action.

Thursday 2 February 2023 | Visit

The Grocer

Sourdough gets first-ever code of practice from bakers’ association

The Real Bread Campaign co-ordinator Chris Young comments on new guidelines:  “The codes’ authors came late to the sourdough game but, rather than playing according to practices established over more than four decades by the UK custodians of the craft, they decided to write their own rules.”

Wednesday 1 February 2023 | Visit

The Express

Brexit outrage as EU bonfire bill raises pesticide 'cancer risk' in UK groceries

Sustain CEO Kath Dalmeny comments.

Thursday 19 January 2023 | Visit

BBC Country File

BBC Country File: Rockingham Castle 

Vicki Hird presents findings from report 'Unpicking food prices', exposing how little farmers earn on the food they produce.

Sunday 18 December 2022 | Visit

The Grocer

Healthy Start vouchers: half of families missing out, claim campaigners

Campaign coordinator Vera Zakharov contributes.

Wednesday 14 December 2022 | Visit

The Guardian

UK farmers making tiny profits as supermarkets boast record takings 

Head of Sustainable Farming Vicki Hird contributes.

Friday 2 December 2022 | Visit



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