Reports: Spring Budget 2024 submission
In this pre Spring Budget 2024 submission, we focus on considerations for the Treasury in five main areas: cost of living, education, health, environment and rural affairs and business.
Sustain | Wednesday 24 January 2024
Reports: Fairness in the food supply chain debate
The UK's food supply chain has become inefficient, unfair, and inflexible, making it vulnerable to shocks. This briefing document addresses critical issues and proposes actionable measures to increase our national food security.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 22 January 2024
Reports: Would the National Food Strategy’s Sugar and Salt Reformulation Tax unfairly impact on households with low incomes?
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, written by the Food Foundation in February 2022, explores the impact of a reformulation tax on households with low incomes, based on the National Food Strategy’s recommendations.
Recipe for Change | Tuesday 19 December 2023
Reports: A year in London’s food gardens: Capital Growth network survey findings 2022-2023
Find out what Capital Growth members have to say about their growing spaces, ambitions, and hopes for the future in the 2022-2023 network survey report.
Capital Growth | Monday 18 December 2023
Reports: Every mouthful counts: How metropolitan councils are tackling the climate and nature emergency through food
Find out how the UK's 36 metropolitan councils performed on food and climate and nature, and how they can unlock a good food revolution across the UK.
Food for the Planet | Wednesday 6 December 2023
Reports: Annual report 2022/23
Read the review of Sustain’s activities and achievements for the financial year April 2022 to March 2023.
Sustain | Friday 1 December 2023
Reports: Reflections on Rootz into Food Growing
This new report reflects on the outcomes of Rootz into Food Growing, the collaborative project to understand and reduce barriers to entry into social enterprise food growing. It calls for new spaces for BPOC growers to come together and a Black-led accredited training programme for growers.
Capital Growth | Wednesday 29 November 2023
Reports: Survey findings: Food insecurity among families with no recourse to public funds
Sustain's survey to local frontline health professionals and community organisations reveals a grim picture of rising food insecurity among families with no recourse to public funds while support services struggle to meet the level of need. Respondents overwhelmingly support extending Healthy Start Scheme to families with NRPF to ensure a nutritional safety net at the start of life.
Sustain | Monday 20 November 2023
Reports: Growing food on urban fringes: a briefing for councils and landowners
This briefing presents the social, economic and environmental case for more commercial, agro-ecological fruit and vegetable production across the United Kingdom.
Fringe Farming | Monday 6 November 2023
Reports: Protecting a food growing site for the future
Two first-of-their-kind guides from Capital Growth and CPRE London explain how to protect food growing sites from future risk or help save ones that are already under threat. They can help you understand how to use designations and political campaigning and legal actions you can take.
Capital Growth | Monday 30 October 2023
