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Coronavirus Food Alert

Sustain campaigns for a healthy, fair and sustainable food system. This means a system that can survive shocks and be socially and environmentally sustainable, whilst ensuring that everyone can eat well and that the system provides decent livelihoods and working conditions.

These pages aim to communicate how the Sustain alliance is striving to secure a resilient food system during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. We are organising ourselves around three headline issues:

We are also working on three cross-cutting themes:

Read Sustain's statement on priorities and principles for our response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus news and blogs

The Real Bread Campaign says buy local!

The Real Bread Campaign urges people to take action now to help ensure that our food shopping options during and after the COVID-19 crisis will still...

Are Universal Infant Free School Meals being cut on the sly?

While the introduction of Free School Meals vouchers was welcomed earlier this week, the new scheme will not cover those receiving Universal Infant...

Why food markets need to stay open to help us through this crisis.

As the country faces both a health and economic crisis, we need to support small food businesses providing healthy food that reach places others...

British pensioners need meals on wheels to beat Covid-19

It’s time to revitalise neglected meals on wheels services; and to redeploy professional cooks, chefs and restaurant staff. Let’s re-open...

Important changes to adult social care in the Coronavirus Bill

An emergency Act of Parliament Bill has removed some key obligations for local authorities and adult social care provision.

Call for freeze on personal debt payments in response to Covid-19

Nearly 80 civil society leaders and academics are calling urgently for a freeze on personal debt payments and to write-off existing Council...

Government food parcels should come with a health warning

The Government has stepped in to distribute food parcels to the one and half million people clinically vulnerable people being shielded from the...

Government responds to children's food organisations on free school meals

Children's Food Campaign, School Food Matters and other organisations have written three times to the Department for Education about free...

Microbaking in the new abnormal

Real Bread Campaign ambassador Ian Waterland gives an insight into how things have changed for his business since the UK went into lockdown.

Campaign to entice new workers onto UK farms

Farming bodies have launched a #FeedTheNation campaign to get UK based workers onto UK farms at this crucial time. Sustain takes a look,...

Free school meals during Covid-19: new vouchers & guidance launched

The Department for Education has announced a national cash voucher scheme for children normally getting free school meals who are now at home....

People Power: Five food actions we can all take to get us through the Covid-19 emergency

How do we act effectively, safely, and for long-term resilience when personally supporting local food aid efforts, asks Sustainable Food Places Local...

Covid-19 and food: Charity is not the answer

Letter from Kath Dalmeny of Sustain and Professor Tim Lang of City, University of London in response to food bank appeal by the Evening Standard and...

New London Community Response Fund to tackle Covid-19

The new London Community Response Fund is now open to applications, to help voluntary and community sector organisations help vulnerable Londoners...

National Emergencies Trust launches Covid-19 appeal

Grassroots charities can get grants to support vulnerable people through Covid-19, via Community Foundations supported by the National Emergencies...

Covid-19 food parcels may fail to help many people most in need

As food parcels start to be delivered to 50,000 extremely vulnerable people shielding from Covid-19, many more vulnerable people will struggle...

Real Bread Campaign to do list

How you can help with what needs doing right now during the COVID crisis.

True scale of Covid-19 coronavirus food aid need exposed

Food Foundation analysis shows that Covid-19 will leave millions of people unable to access the food they need.

Real Bread bakers' letter to the PM

Letter emailed to the UK Prime Minister on 25 March 2020

Five ways to support our farmers in the time of Covid-19

How is the current crisis affecting British farmers and growers, particularly the smaller farm business sector? Are they getting the support they...

Emergency independent food banks ask: "Can we stay open?" as UK goes into coronavirus lockdown

Hundreds of independent food banks and other food aid providers serving the most vulnerable people in the UK are worried they may have to close due...

‘Your NHS Needs You’ – NHS Call For Volunteer Army

The NHS is “rallying the troops” for the war on coronavirus, with volunteers being called up to help vulnerable people stay safe and well...

Covid caring and coping

What Real Bread bakeries and baking schools are doing to look after their customers, staff and other people in their local communities.

Coronavirus Food Alert: Call for government action on food for vulnerable people

Government must release funds so that people can buy the food they need to be able to self-isolate.

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Sustain's work on food resilience in the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.We are helping secure food for vulnerable people and supporting local emergency responses.

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