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News: Response to the consultation on the Development of the London Housing Strategy, 2005.

Sustain and the Food Commission are working under contract to the LDA, to develop guidelines useful to planners, social housing organisations, local authority staff, Primary Care Trusts and local food and health organisations. The aim is to stimulate work that will improve access to healthy and affordable food in deprived areas of London.
London Food Link | Tuesday 1 February 2005

News: Royal Brompton Hospital serves up local organic 'Brompton Breakfast'

The Royal Brompton Hospital is holding a 'Brompton Breakfast' morning on Wednesday 26th January to highlight its work in the catering department to increase the proportion of local and organic food served to staff, patients and visitors.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Wednesday 26 January 2005

Reports: Grab 5! Model School Food Policy - A practical guide

The Grab 5! Model School Food Policy is a practical guide. It outlines the benefits of introducing a school food policy, and provides a specimen policy for adoption by the school governors, together with a comprehensive list of ideas for shaping and developing your school food policy.
Grab 5! | Saturday 1 January 2005

Reports: Good Food on the Public Plate: A manual for sustainability in public sector food and catering

This comprehensive 292-page manual is presented in five parts, for those wishing to introduce better quality and more sustainable food and practices into public sector catering for schools, hospitals, care settings and government food procurement. Developed by Sustain and East Anglia Food Link, the publication includes a review of food and catering in the public sector, considers what the benefits of 'sustainable food' are, has a detailed exploration of the procurement legislation and guidance for producers and suppliers wishing to supply the public sector. It also contains extensive guidance for purchasers, advice on good catering practices, a toolkit with recipe ideas and seasonality charts, a model sustainable procurement strategy, model checklists, and a directory with over a hundred links to useful organisations.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Wednesday 1 December 2004

News: Voluntary controls on junk food ads endangers children's health

In the Public Health White Paper, it is said that the Government will set out its preferred option for voluntary controls on junk food advertising to children. But Sustain's Children's Food Bill campaign argues that each year that legislation is delayed, an estimated 40,000 children will become obese.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 15 November 2004

News: Hospital Food Project - Distribution Research Report

This report highlights some of the distribution barriers which are facing local and organic food producers when selling to the London market, and for purchasing organisations such as hospitals to buy locally made and distributed foods.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Friday 12 November 2004

Reports: Rating retailers for health: How supermarkets can affect your chances of a healthy diet

The report 'Rating retailers for health' (2004) rates the UK's leading supermarkets against each other, showing big differences between the supermarkets in terms of how they promote healthy eating to their customers, and make healthier food affordable. It is one of a series of 7 reports published by the National Consumer Council, working with Sustain and the Food Commission, that also measured and reported on supermarket progress across several years, 2004 to 2009. Links to all 7 reports are provided on the "more information" page.
Supermarkets, health and sustainability | Friday 1 October 2004

News: Agricultural Trade Reform, Subsidies and the Future of Small and Family Farms and Farmers

This report is the result of a survey conducted for the U.K. Food Group / Sustain Working Group on Trade and Agriculture.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 27 September 2004

News: 205 MPs increase pressure on Reid to ban junk food ads

Sustain, co-ordinators of the campaign for the Children's Food Bill have announced that 205 MPs already support legislation to end junk food marketing to children. The announcement coincides with a keynote speech today by the Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP, in which the Secretary of State will set out the philosophy and political approach to the forthcoming White Paper on Public Health.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 22 September 2004

News: Good for the environment, Good for you: Make yours a local lunch in Farmers' Market Month

Sustain has teamed up with the National Farmers' Retail & Markets Association (FARMA) to promote strong reasons to 'Make yours a local lunch' during Farmers' Market Month this September.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Tuesday 24 August 2004