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Reports: Growing Connections: Guide to an inclusive and welcoming community garden

This guide outlines the principles to age-friendly and inclusive volunteering, shares best practice and provides a tool to self-review community food projects’ inclusivity. Growing Connections is a project of Sustain, funded by the Centre for Ageing Better and DCMS through the Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering programme.
Capital Growth | Monday 3 August 2020

News: New guide to support age-friendly volunteering in community gardens

A new guide and toolkit have been launched to inspire age-friendly and inclusive volunteering in community food gardens.
Capital Growth | Monday 3 August 2020

News: National Food Strategy - first report of recommendations to Government launched

The report reflects on the information gathered through the broad consultation excercise of the last year, and focuses recommendations around poverty and trade, in light of the challenges from Coronavirus, ahead of a full report due in 2021. Read Sustain's response.
National Food Strategy | Wednesday 29 July 2020

News: The government wants your views on public sector food

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee is consulting on public procurement.
Sustain | Wednesday 29 July 2020

Reports: Food and Covid-19: How local authorities can support recovery and resilience

Guidance on the principles, processes and partnerships that contribute to a strong council response, as well as suggested actions for improving food access.
Food Poverty | Tuesday 28 July 2020

News: Get ready for Sourdough September!

How YOU can get involved, particularly if you run a Real Bread business.
Real Bread Campaign | Monday 27 July 2020

News: Government confirms 9pm watershed for junk food adverts amongst raft of policies to tackle obesity.

Read Sustain's response to the Government’s new obesity strategy, which will include a 9pm watershed on junk food advertising and similar restrictions online, which food charity Sustain has been calling for through its Children’s Food Campaign for over a decade.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 27 July 2020

Events: Foraging for Medicinal Plants

Discover medicinal plants you can forage and use at home.
Capital Growth | Wednesday 22 July 2020

Blog: Orchards and agroforestry - big green ideas to tackle the climate and nature emergency?

I was asked to give a presentation on orchards and agroforestry for an RSPB webinar on ‘Nature in the Green Recovery: Big Ideas for where Nature-Based Solutions can go next’. The task was formidable to deliver a 4-minute presentation, on the science, opportunities, and barriers to this nature-based carbon solution. This blog explores these in more detail and how, alongside agro-ecological farming, we can gain win wins from ‘food trees’ for climate and nature. [1]
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Wednesday 22 July 2020

Events: Pester Power or Parent Power?

Join the Children's Food Campaign and Food Active in a free 60-minute webinar, to hear first hand the findings from research with parents and carers on the use of child-friendly characters on food and drink packaging.
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 21 July 2020