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News: How can healthcare facilities support a healthy community with food growing spaces?

Non-profit, Health Care without Harm, has published a new report outlining how green spaces used to grow food in healthcare settings offer an opportunity to support both disease prevention and treatment as well as support wider community health and health education.
Good to Grow | Tuesday 30 March 2021

News: Health experts and parents agree: a 9pm watershed on junk food advertising

As part of the Obesity Health Alliance, Sustain and the Children's Food Campaign are amongst 44 professional organisations backing a comprehensive 9pm watershed for advertising of foods high in fat, salt and sugar, as new research shows massive public backing for the idea.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 28 February 2019

News: Five London boroughs awarded food poverty action plan funding

The Greater London Authority has awarded funding to Croydon, Enfield, Merton, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets to develop food poverty action plans. Thanks to funding from Trust for London, Sustain will advise and assist the boroughs with their plans over the next six months.
Food Poverty | Monday 20 February 2017

News: Research partner wanted to evaluate Good Food Local programme in London

Following 12 fruitful years of tracking council action on food in London, Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming are looking for a research partner to evaluate their Good Food Local approach in London.
Good Food Local | Friday 10 May 2024

Blog: How can Local Enterprise Partnerships put better food and farming at the heart of economic recovery

When choosing how to allocate large sums of investment funding, Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) should invest in values-led food, farming and fishing to deliver the goods they seek to bring to local areas. Merav Shub highlights some of the main arguments from Sustain's new report which looks into this issue.
Sustainable Food Places | Tuesday 27 October 2020

News: Plymouth’s cost of living plan champions joined up approach to food

Plymouth's City Council Cost of Living Plan includes both short and long term action on food including investment in food co-ops to secure affordable, good quality food for residents.
Good Food Local | Friday 13 October 2023

News: Harriet Harman joins celebrities and experts in new campaign to protect children from junk food adverts

Over 50 health, consumer and children's organisations, and celebrities such as Raymond Blanc, Antony Worrall Thomson and Prue Leith, have written to senior politicians urging them to protect children from junk food TV advertising before 9pm
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 4 June 2007

Reports: Survey findings: Food insecurity among families with no recourse to public funds

Sustain's survey to local frontline health professionals and community organisations reveals a grim picture of rising food insecurity among families with no recourse to public funds while support services struggle to meet the level of need. Respondents overwhelmingly support extending Healthy Start Scheme to families with NRPF to ensure a nutritional safety net at the start of life.
Sustain | Monday 20 November 2023

News: Record number of places recognised for innovation and leadership on healthy and sustainable food

A record 14 food partnerships are awarded Sustainable Food Places awards, bucking the challenging context of chronic financial constraints in local government and showing innovation and leadership on healthy and sustainable food.
Sustainable Food Places | Friday 9 August 2024

News: Thousands of women and children miss out on healthy food scheme in 2018

As seen in an article in the Huffington Post today, charities and health groups have warned Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock that low-income women and children in over 130,000 households are missing out on £28.6m of free fruit, vegetables and milk due to poor promotion of the Healthy Start voucher scheme.
Food Poverty | Saturday 1 June 2019


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