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
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
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: 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
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
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 email Naema Jannath at naema@sustainweb.org
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.
