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Working for a healthy, sustainable and ethical food system for the capital. Through our projects and campaigns we strive for a food system that benefits all Londoners.

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The London Food Link projects

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      Capital Growth

      The campaign offers practical and financial support to communities around London to help more people grow more food, and to have greater access to land and growing spaces for community benefit.

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      London Food Poverty Campaign

      What are the steps that London’s local authorities can take to reduce food poverty beyond the foodbank?

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      Food Waste

      Sustain is pleased to be working on the FoodSave project to help small and medium-sized food businesses in London to reduce their food waste.

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      Sustainable Fish Cities

      A campaign to protect precious marine environments and fishing livelihoods, and call for fish to be bought from sustainable sources.

    • Urban Food Fortnight

      London Food Link’s celebration of the fabulous produce being grown, made, cooked and saved on our doorstep.

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      Good Food for London

      Our annual league table shines a light on London's local authorities taking straightforward and significant steps to improve food in their borough - as well as those lagging behind

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To celebrate the amazing people who grow, make and brew our food, London Food Link has developed a unique set of gifts. All proceeds support our charity.

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Grow, produce, teach, peddle or simply enjoy good food in the capital? Annual support starts from less than £2 a month and you get a load of great benefits in return.

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Publications

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Good Food for London 2017

The Good Food for London report measures progress and encourages London councils to take action on good food. It measures action on 11 different good food measures, from food growing, encouraging breastfeeding, school food, Fairtrade and fair pay. Scores range from 88 to 13 per cent. The Good Food for London league table 2017 is topped by the London Borough of Greenwich, followed by Islington, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Waltham Forest.

13/10/2017

Beyond the Food Bank London Food Poverty Profile 2017

Beyond the Food Bank 2017 is the third edition of London’s comprehensive food poverty profile. The report looks at what local authorities are doing to reduce food poverty across a range of measures. 

13/10/2017

Jellied Eel 55

Features in this issue include: Urban Food Fortnight pullout guide, Community souperheroes, Chef Supported Agriculture, Chef Tom Hunt's sauerkraut tips, The Eel goes to… Bristol, Good food review: Rabbit.

04/09/2017

Jellied Eel 54

Features in this issue include: DIY Diners, Chef Tom Hunt's BBQ ideas, The Eel goes to… Liverpool, Get Sugar Smart, Good food review: The Good Egg, Radical retail on campus, and the London Food Link / Jellied Eel crowdfunding campaign.

08/05/2017

Jellied Eel 53

Features in this issue include: The circular economy, The Eel goes to… Brighton & Hove, Rosie Boycott interviews Abi Glencross on the future of meat, Beyond the Food Bank, farmers who feed London and London grows wild.

17/01/2017

Good Food for London 2016

The Good Food for London report measures progress and encourages London councils to take action on good food. It measures action on 11 different good food measures, from food growing, encouraging breastfeeding, school food, Fairtrade and fair pay. Scores range from 95 to 15 per cent. The Good Food for London league table 2016 is topped by the London Borough of Islington, followed by Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Merton.

15/11/2016

Beyond the Food Bank: London Food Poverty Profile 2016

Beyond the Food Bank 2016 is the second edition of London’s comprehensive food poverty profile. The report looks at what local authorities are doing to reduce food poverty across a range of measures. 

13/11/2016

Jellied Eel 52

Features in this issue include: Tom Hunt's Urban Food Fortnight, peri-urban farming, food incubators, your Urban Food Awards finalists, and loads more on the people who grow, make, forage, cook, and save good food in the capital.

12/09/2016

Jellied Eel 51

Features in the summer issue include: Tom Hunt's peak salad recipe, Sheila Dillon interview, Good Food Jobs - The London Brewer, TTIP - trading food safety for corporate profit?, Holiday Hunger, The Eel Loves...Finsbury Park, new London Grows initiative, plus a free Point the Fishy Finger superhero kit and much more.

18/05/2016

Vote good food: A London Food Link briefing on the London Mayoral Election 2016

At London Food Link we believe there are food related challenges the new Mayor of London should be tackling head on and opportunities for them to seize.

06/04/2016

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The latest news from London Food Link and its projects

Love to make good food? Check out London’s first festival for makers

Makemore Festival are bringing five fantastic days of making and doing to Victoria Park this August Bank holiday weekend, with plenty on offer for those who love good food.

14/08/2018

Grow, Make, Cook or Save food in London? Get involved in Urban Food Fortnight

London Food Link’s new interactive online map and directory is open, so you can list Urban Food Fortnight events and help promote London’s local larder from 20th September to 7th October 2018. 

08/08/2018

New Good Food Map launched for London

London Food Link have launched a new Good Food Map ahead of this year’s Urban Food Fortnight. Dubbed the place to find good food places, it is set to celebrate those championing ethical and sustainable food across the capital.

31/07/2018

Summer gathering in Tower Hamlets

Sustain member the Women’s Environmental Network host a summer gathering of the Tower Hamlets Food Growing Network.

26/07/2018

Sustain call for Meals on Wheels case studies.

Sustain and the National Association of Care Caterers (NACC) are raising awareness about the potential Meals on Wheels services have to combat malnutrition, food poverty and social isolation in older people, as well as other wider benefits such as preventative support and local employment or volunteering opportunities.

23/07/2018

Do you live in Newham, Hillingdon, Hammersmith and Fulham or Sutton?

Get your local authority to tell us what it is doing to address food poverty!

20/07/2018

Young Londoners grow entrepreneurial flare at pop-up market

Around 35 budding young growers from nine schools took part in Capital Growth’s School Marketplace at City Hall on 13th July 2018. The event gives London schools the opportunity to sell their produce, preserves, and other school garden goodies.

19/07/2018

Win a FREE ad in The Jellied Eel magazine worth up to £300!

London Food Link supporters have an opportunity to win an ad slot in the September-December 2018 issue of The ‘Eel, the capital’s good food magazine.

04/07/2018

Two weeks left to shape the future of London’s food

There are less than two weeks to respond to the draft London Food Strategy, to shape the way that we grow, make, cook, eat and save food in London.

26/06/2018

Pitches from food and farming start-ups wanted for FoodBytes

A sustainable food, agriculture and food tech competition is coming to London in September.

08/06/2018

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Food events calendar

The following events are taking place over the next week

Fri 17 
Sat 18
Sun 19London Farmers' Markets: various locations
 
The Food Market Chiswick
 
Duck Pond Foodies' Market: Ruislip
 
Rosewood London's Slow Food & Living Market
 
Noel Park Market
 
City & Country Farmers' Markets: Alexandra Palace, Eltham, Herne Hill, Kentish Town
 
Brentford Market
 
Peckham Farmers' Market
 
Wapping Market
 
Abbeville Road Produce Market
 
Kew Village Market
 
Earl's Court Farmers' Market
Mon 20International Cuisine (Public Health) every Monday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm from Monday 22nd of February to Monday 14th of March
Tue 21International Cuisine (Public Health) every Tuesday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm from Tuesday 23rd February to Tuesday 15th March
Wed 22
Thu 23

Visit the events calendar for full details

 

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