Blog: Funding for local food infrastructure and projects: what’s happening with Levelling Up funding?
From the announcement of the projects awarded with the second round of funding of the Government’s Levelling Up Fund, to progress in UK Shared Prosperity Funding, to the recent announcement of Rural England Prosperity Fund. This blog summarises opportunities and misgivings of levelling up funding streams, and implications for food partnerships.
Sustainable Food Places | Friday 28 April 2023
News: New legal challenge over "hidden" GMOs in food
Sustain member Beyond GM launches legal action against the UK government over new regulations that remove labelling requirements, claiming the changes violate citizens' right to know what's in their food and risk damaging the environment.
Sustain | Monday 7 July 2025
News: Food Diversity day to celebrate and promote diversity in foods
Sustain supports the first Food Diversity Day on Friday 13 January - an initiative designed to celebrate Britain's most endangered foods and to help get more food diversity onto our plates. You can join talks, presentations and discussions on so many great topics.
Sustain | Wednesday 11 January 2023
Page: Connecting Community Food Enterprises Case Study: Oldham Community Vegbag
Find out how Oldham Council are working with the community to improve local availability of fresh fruit and veg with their vegbag scheme.
Good Food Enterprise
Reports: Serving Up: aligning public procurement of food for UK public institutions with healthy sustainable diets
In this policy briefing, we provide recommendations for how public procurement policy could support healthy sustainable diets.
Food for the Planet | Monday 17 March 2025
Events: Community Food Growing Convos #1 - Community Harvest
Join us for Community Harvest, the first in our series of our Community Food Growing Convos.
Capital Growth | Wednesday 25 January 2023
Events: Our children, our future: A parents’ manifesto for healthy children’s food
Join our webinar to hear findings from research with over 2000 parents from across the UK and engage in an interactive discussion on parents’ top priorities for the future government.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 25 April 2024
News: Sustain at the Labour Party Conference 2025
Sustain will be speaking Monday 29 September on Labour's Food Strategy, alongside The Food Foundation and the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.
Sustain | Tuesday 16 September 2025
Reports: Investigating the impact of a salt and sugar tax on health and environmental outcomes
Recipe for Change is a campaign calling for a new industry levy to help make our food healthier, while raising revenue that can be invested back into children’s health. This policy briefing, published by Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems and Recipe for Change in March 2024, explores the impact on both health and the environment of consumers substituting frequently consumed foods for lower salt and sugar alternatives, based on the National Food Strategy’s recommendations.
Recipe for Change | Friday 21 June 2024
News: Leading charity Garden Organic seeks new chair of trustees
Garden Organic is looking for a new Chair to lead their Board of Trustees. The new Chair will build on the charity's successes, having the responsibility to deliver Garden Organic’s strategy and provide leadership to the wider board. Deadline for applications: 23 January 2023.
Capital Growth | Wednesday 11 January 2023
Capital Growth: 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.
