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Reports: A Growing Trade - a guide for community groups growing food to sell in our towns and cities

This Local Action on Food report highlights the commercial opportunities for community grown food and showcases initiatives that are doing it already. The report shows examples of food that is being produced as close to the market place as possible and the opportunities for community food growing projects to make links more widely in the community as well as generate income to contribute towards project costs and to lift the ambitions of the people involved.
Capital Growth | Friday 8 June 2012

News: New research by Trussell Trust suggests that almost half of food bank users during the pandemic are repaying debts to government

The Trussell Trust are calling for the UK Government to pause repayment of benefit debts in new Lift the Burden report which finds that 73% of food bank users receiving Universal Credit are repaying advance payments compared to 51% pre-pandemic.   
Sustain | Thursday 3 December 2020

News: Open call for Capital Growth’s London 2023 food growing training calendar now live!

It’s official – Capital Growth has launched its open call for this year’s training calendar. If you’re interested in helping to deliver this year’s London programme, send your proposals to the team before the seasonal deadlines.
Capital Growth | Monday 23 January 2023

Reports: A year in London’s food gardens: Capital Growth network survey findings 2022-2023

Find out what Capital Growth members have to say about their growing spaces, ambitions, and hopes for the future in the 2022-2023 network survey report.
Capital Growth | Monday 18 December 2023

Reports: A year in London’s food gardens: Capital Growth network survey findings 2023-2024

Find out what Capital Growth members have to say about their growing spaces, ambitions, and hopes for the future in the 2023-2024 network survey report.
Capital Growth | Monday 19 August 2024

News: Extending the storage time of eggs - in domestic or retail settings - would increase Salmonella food poisoning risks to consumers

This is according to a scientific opinion from The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Salmonella Enteritidis causes the highest number of egg-borne outbreaks in the EU, and extending the sell-by date from 21 to 28 days would mean an increase in the risk of infections of 40 per cent for uncooked and 50 per cent for slightly-cooked eggs.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: £5 billion potential boost to local economies through local food in public sector catering

Using local food in our school, hospital and prison canteens would boost local economies by at least £5 billion and create many local jobs.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Wednesday 16 July 2003

News: Sustain welcomes Jamie Oliver backing for sugary drinks duty and creation of fund to support better children’s food

In a UK first, the Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group will impose its very own 'child health levy’ on any soft drink with added sugar in all its UK restaurants from September this year with the much needed money raised going directly to fund food education for children and health initiatives
Sugary Drinks Duty | Sunday 21 June 2015

News: Education leaders call for a full "post-Covid reset" of school food and invite public to share evidence.

Dr Nick Capstick OBE has been appointed as chair of a new school food review working group, bringing together educational leaders, food organisations and child poverty organisations to tackle food access, inequality and health in the nation's school system, with a new public survey of school food.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 1 July 2021

News: Webinar: Emerging Practices from the Devolved Nations: Supporting Free School Meal Pupils and Food Aid Community Responses to COVID-19

Sustain member The Food Foundation invites attendees to join this online seminar, Friday 5 June 2-3:30pm. A panel of speakers from local government and policy research will discuss different approaches adopted in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to support pupils eligible for Free School Meals during Covid-19.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 29 May 2020


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