Food poverty action plans

Sustain has worked with a wide range of local alliances and networks to develop strategic responses to food poverty through our Food Power programme, London Food Poverty Campaign and the Sustainable Food Places network. Below is a selection of food poverty action plans and needs assessments from across the UK. In some areas a set of actions around food poverty is included in a wider food plan, see the Sustainable Food Places website for examples.

Sustain has also published a short guide to developing food poverty action plans which offers advice on drafting and delivering local food poverty action or similar plans, based on analysis of a number of recently-produced local food poverty strategies or plans. The guide also highlights some of the impact that some of these plans have had. 

Download our food poverty action plan guide

England

East of England and Midlands

• Food insecurity in Birmingham - A city-level response? (Birmingham, 2015)
• A collaborative action plan for Cambridge (Cambridge, 2019)
• Towards a collaborative food action plan (Cambridge, 2018)
• Informing the Hertfordshire Food Poverty Needs Assessment (Hertfordshire, 2021)
• Luton Food Poverty Alliance: Action Plan (Luton, 2020)
• Food Poverty Network Pilot Project Evaluation (Northamptonshire, 2013)
• Food Poverty Action Plan (Norwich, 2019)
• Food Power Action Plan (Sandwell, 2019)
• Menu for Action (Shropshire, 2018)

London

• Food Secure Barnet: Action Plan 2019 - 2021 (Barnet, 2019)
• The Use of Food Banks in Brent (Brent, 2017)
• The Collaborative Framework for Action 2020 – 2025 (Camden, 2021)
• Food poverty in Camden and Islington (Camden & Islington, 2018)
• Food Poverty Action Plan (Croydon, 2017)
• Good Food in Greenwich Food Poverty Action Plan (Greenwich, 2018)
• Food Poverty - summary report (Greenwich, 2017)
• Food Poverty Needs Assessment - full report (Greenwich, 2016)
• Hackney Food Poverty Action Plan (Hackney, 2020) 
• Food Poverty Action Plan for Hammersmith & Fulham (Hammersmith & Fulham, 2014)
• Islington Food Poverty Action Plan 2019 - 2022 (Islington, 2019)
• Cooking Up Ideas (Kensington & Chelsea, 2016)  
• Food for thought: Food insecurity in 21st century Kingston (Kingston, 2018)
• Lambeth Food Poverty and Insecuirty Action Plan 2021-2024 (Lambeth, 2021)
• Lambeth Food Insecurity Report (Lambeth, 2017)
• Putting Food On The Table (Lewisham, 2014)
• London Food Strategy and Implementation Plan (London, 2018)
• Beyond the Food Bank: London Food Poverty Profile 2018 (London, 2018)
• A Food Poverty Action Plan for Mertion 2018-2020 (Merton, 2018)
• We are Food Secure. We are Newham (Newham, 2021 - full document/ online summary)
• Redbridge Food Poverty Action Plan (Redbridge, 2017)
• A borough-wide action plan to increase household food insecurity (Southwark, 2019, 2021)
• Food Poverty Needs Assessment (Sutton, 2015)   
• Food Poverty Action Plan (Tower Hamlets, 2017)   
• Food Poverty Action Plan (Waltham Forest, 2019)

North West, North East and Yorkshire

• Food Poverty in Doncaster: 2019 Action Plan (Doncaster, 2019)
• Food insecurity: Understanding local delivery, impact and innovation in the North (East Riding, 2021)
• Food Poverty Strategy 2021 (East Riding, 2021)
• Food Poverty Action Plan for Greater Manchester (Greater Manchester, 2019)
• Lancaster District Food Poverty Alliance: Our Five Year Action Plan (Lancaster, 2021)
• Definition of food poverty (Liverpool, 2016)
• Good Food Plan (Liverpool, 2021)
• VS6 Sustainable and Affordable Food Assembly Report (Liverpool City Region, 2021)
• Seeking justice: How to understand and end food poverty in York (York, 2019)

South East and South West

• Food Strategy Action Plan 2018 - 2023 (Brighton & Hove, 2018)
• Food Poverty Action Plan 2015 - 2018: Final progress report (Brighton & Hove, 2018)
• Food Poverty Action Plan 2015 - 2018 (Brighton & Hove, 2015)
• A Food Strategy for Exeter (Exeter, 2017)  
• Feeding the Gaps (Oxford, 2014)

Northern Ireland

• Enough is Enough: Food poverty scoping exercise (Belfast, 2015)   

Scotland

• Food poverty/ insecurity in Aberdeen (Aberdeen, 2017)
• An Action Plan for Tackling Food Poverty/ Insecurity in Aberdeen (Aberdeen, 2019)
• Glasgow, Tackling Food Poverty with a City Plan (Glasgow, 2021)
• Fairer Moray Forum Food Poverty Action Plan (Moray, 2019)

Wales

• Building resilience: Food Cardiff's five year food security plan (Cardiff, 2018) 
• Good Food Charter: Good Food for Everyone / Siarter Bwyd Da: Bywd Da I Bawb (North Wales, 2018)
• Food Poverty in South Wales: A call to action / Tlodi Bwyd Yn Ne Cymru: Galwad I Weithredu (South Wales, 2019) 

Please contact us if you'd like to include your area's food poverty action plan.