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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
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
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
Events: Webinar: Civil Food Resilience in practice
Catch up on the Sustainable Food Places session on Civil Food Resilience and find out how local food partnerships across the UK are stepping up to the challenge of strengthening an increasingly fragile food system and preparing for emergencies, centring community assets and knowledge.
Sustainable Food Places | Wednesday 13 May 2026
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
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
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
Page: Want to become a Children’s Food Ambassador?
If you’re a parent or carer with a child / children under 18, you can apply to be part of our programme, where we make your voice heard on the food issues which matter to you and your children.
We are currently taking in applications for 2027! If you are interested in joining our programme, please complete our application form.
Children's Food Campaign
News: London councils support good food work in spite of funding cuts
Sustain’s Good Food Local: the London report highlights that London councils are committed to meaningful action on food, despite years of budget cuts.
Good Food Local | Thursday 29 February 2024
Good Food Local: 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.
