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
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.
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
Blog: Roots to Work: the food partnership officer
Community Food Partnership Officer and IFSTAL alumni, Sara Azeem, tells us about what inspired her to work in the food system and her hopes for tackling big issues through food sovereignty.
Roots to Work | Tuesday 6 February 2024
News: Sustain welcomes Better Food Traders to the alliance
Building on years of collaborative work to promote fair, farmer-focused food retail, Sustain is delighted to welcome the Better Food Traders network as a member of the alliance for better food and farming.
Sustain | Thursday 30 May 2024
Page: Recommendations for robust healthier food advertising policy implementation
Local governments have a healthier food advertising policy when their policy guidance meets the minimum standards, plus they have a strong implementation which should result in switching the spotlight away from unhealthy foods and drinks.
Commercial Determinants
Page: Good Food Local: A regional approach
Food connects community health, economic resilience, climate action and tackling inequality. Most councils recognise this - but food work is often fragmented across departments, under-resourced and not always easy to prioritise.
Good Food Local can help
Led by Sustain, Good Food Local gives councils a practical framework for improving their local food system and making measurable progress for health, equity and the environment. When regions take part together, the impact is even greater.
Good Food Local
News: New school food standards aim to boost healthier appetites
The government has launched a nine week consultation on proposed new School Food Standards for England, aiming to reduce sugar, fried foods and processed meat and boost pupil intakes fibre, fresh fruit and vegetables, beans and pulses. Sustain's parent ambassadors welcome the opportunity to push for change.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 13 April 2026
Children's Food Campaign: 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.
