News: Wandsworth to extend free school meals a year ahead of national rollout
Wandsworth Council is leading the way by expanding free school meals eligibility starting in September 2025, a year ahead of the UK government’s planned rollout for all Universal Credit households across England.
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 12 August 2025
Archive News: Sustain and allies urge MPs to address children’s food in national planning policies
Sustain, alongside other organisations including The Food Foundation and Food Active, are urging the Government to champion children's health in the current planning inquiry by stemming the flood of unhealthy food.
Planning Food Cities | Tuesday 13 February 2024
Archive News: Updated National Planning Policy for England falls flat
Sustain’s call for national planning policies for England which will achieve an environmentally friendly, healthy, equitable and secure food and farming system falls on fallow ground.
Planning Food Cities | Monday 8 January 2024
News: Quarter of UK councils depend on food partnerships to deliver on food security and public health
Sustainable Food Places network calls for MPs to recognise local food partnerships as essential national infrastructure for delivering health, climate and economic priorities.
Sustainable Food Places | Thursday 6 November 2025
News: Fair Food Futures: tackling food insecurity through local food provision
Fair Food Futures UK research team release first report on local level community food provision, highlighting examples from Bradford and Tower Hamlets, and recommendations for tackling food insecurity through local coordinated work.
Food Poverty | Wednesday 7 August 2024
News: Sustainable Food Places network urges Government to invest in local food economies
Food partnerships from across the UK convene alongside MPs in Parliament to call on Government to invest in local food economies, shorter supply chains, and community food access. The event showcases the innovative role of food partnerships in transforming their local economies and communities through the power of food.
Sustainable Food Places | Wednesday 14 June 2023
News: Government shares vision for a healthier, greener food system in newly published ‘Good Food Cycle’
Improved food environments that encourage healthy eating and fairness and transparency in supply chains to better support food producers are amongst the key outcomes set out by Defra in this latest publication.
Sustain | Tuesday 15 July 2025
Reports: Civil Food Resilience in practice: capacity-building for resilience across Sustainable Food Places
This report distils insights and research from Sustainable Food Places member food partnerships, working as ‘first movers’ in Civil Food Resilience planning across the UK, and identifies a framework of action at the local, regional and national level.
Sustain | Monday 11 May 2026
Events: Food Partnerships as a tool for local food systems change
An introduction for councils or those new to local food systems work.
Sustainable Food Places | Thursday 29 January 2026
News: New report from Food Matters puts the spotlight on prison food systems
Food Matters has launched a report demonstrating the ways in which food may be used as a force for change within the prison system to improve nutrition, wellbeing and opportunities for prisoners.
Sustain | Wednesday 31 January 2024
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