Page: Good Food Local: login
Log into our self-assessment tool to help your authority to understand where you are now, and to take meaningful action for enabling a healthy and sustainable food system and environment in your local area.
Good Food Local
Page: Carrickfergus Friendly Food Club
A local retail pilot that enables people experiencing a low income to buy organic fruit and vegetables from a greengrocer at a 50% discount via a membership model: the Friendly Food Club.
Bridging the Gap
Blog: “We need to change the recipe of our food, our system and how we do policy”: Reflections from Labour conference
From the food on our shelves to the policies shaping our health system, it’s clear that children’s health can no longer be treated as an afterthought. At this year’s Labour party conference, our Recipe for Change panel and many other discussions made the same case: if we want a fairer, healthier future, we need to change the recipe.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 2 October 2025
News: Ask your MP to join the conversation on school food
It’s time to talk about school food – will your MP join the conversation?
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 27 April 2023
News: The value of traditional markets in food deserts
Researchers from Leeds University show that Grainger Market is a thriving hub for independent local businesses, and a vital resource to the community as an accessible and affordable source of fresh food.
Sustain | Thursday 8 December 2022
Events: Free beginner food growing session on creating an edible garden in containers
In this free beginner food growing session in partnership with The Royal Parks, we'll learn all about growing food in small places.
Capital Growth | Saturday 1 July 2023
Page: Children's Food Summit 2025
Our Children's Food Campaign hosted an interactive afternoon of discussion with policy makers, public health and education organisations, researchers, parent ambassadors, young people and other key figures making a difference in the children’s food space.
Children's Food Campaign
Blog: Supporting neurodiversity in food projects
During Neurodiversity Celebration Week Isabel Rice, Sareta Puri and Vera Zakharov explore how neurodiversity can be understood and supported in community food projects.
Sustain | Thursday 21 March 2024
Page: Protecting food growing sites
Dive into our resources to learn how to use planning designations and other ways to protect your growing space, created in collaboration with CPRE London. Learn how to raise the profile and save your food growing space from development.
Capital Growth
News: Edinburgh Community Food launches affordable organic pilot with Bridging the Gap
Edinburgh Community Food has launched a new pilot scheme in partnership with Jock Tamson’s Gairden at Duddingston Loch and Pillars of Hercules Farm in Fife, to make organic fruit and veg affordable to all. With support from the Bridging the Gap programme, the pilot is subsidising the cost of climate and nature-friendly produce from these local producers to the local community in North Leith at prices that match non-organically grown produce.
Bridging the Gap | Monday 5 August 2024
Bridging the Gap: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
