Blog: 'Impact Matters' for this year's National Inclusion Week
The 2024 theme for National Inclusion Week is Impact Matters, which is why we strive to move beyond tick box diversity initiatives and have launched a programme of support to enable other organisations to do the same.
Roots to Work | Tuesday 24 September 2024
Reports: Briefing: Sustain response to proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework
Proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) risk making it easier for large-scale intensive livestock units to expand in rural areas, despite the risk they pose to UK food security, water and air pollution, biodiversity loss and animal welfare. Sensible adjustments to the draft NPPF will unlock the potential of sustainable farming, building the essential resilience the UK needs in the face of global instability, creating more and better jobs and increasing the production of healthy food.
Sustain | Monday 16 February 2026
News: Sustain and Foodrise shortlisted for the SMK National Campaigner Awards 2026
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation has recognised the work by Sustain, Foodrise and local residents to successfully stop one of Europe’s largest proposed megafarms. The campaign established climate change as a valid reason for councils to refuse factory farm planning applications.
Sustain | Tuesday 19 May 2026
News: Legal challenge finds national climate plans unlawfully inadequate
The High Court has ruled that the UK government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP) is inadequate to deliver necessery emissions reductions and must be revised within one year.
Food for the Planet | Wednesday 29 May 2024
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: 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
Sustain: 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.
