Projects and campaigns

The main way that Sustain fulfils its aims is through running a multitude of different projects and campaigns to improve food and farming, with the help of our members and other supporters.

This page lists all of Sustain's active projects and campaigns; and links to key archive information from completed Sustain work.

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Good Food Bill

New legislation is necessary to transform our food system, giving successive governments clear goals to ensure the country is well-nourished in an increasingly uncertain world, while providing food...
A tractor ploughing a dry field.. Credit: Shestakov Dmytro
Big Ben Copyright: Moussa81 | istock
Vegetable display at a UK supermarket in Lincolnshire. Copyright: Matylda Laurence | shutterstock

Sustainable Farming Campaign

Pushing for the integration of sustainable farming into local, regional and national government policies.
School chef James Taylor in a Hackney school, as part of Sustain's Bridging the Gap programme. Copyright: Eleanor Church | Sustain
A farm track and wild hedgerows. . Credit: Paul Nash: Shutterstock
Tractor ploughing agricultural field in Dorset. Copyright: savoilic | Istock

Bridging the Gap

Demonstrating ways to make organic food more accessible via farmer-focused supply chains.
Pulses. Credit: Pexels
Buying organic veg at Tower Hamlets Food Co-op. Credit: Eleanor Church
Organic North warehouse. Copyright: Sustain

Children's Food Campaign

Campaigning for policy changes so that all children can easily eat sustainable and healthy food.
School kids enjoying snacks during lunch break. Credit: LightFieldStudios / iStock
Children's Food Awards banner. Credit: Sustain
Primary school students eating school meals. Credit: Monkey Business Images

Commercial Determinants

Supporting policymakers and councils to introduce healthy food advertising policies.

Girl shopping in a supermarket. Copyright: © 2023. Provided by Impact on Urban Health licensed via a?CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
. Copyright: petrenkod | Istock
Child watching TV. Credit: Pixabay

Recipe for Change

Coalition coordinated by Sustain calling for an industry levy to help make food healthier.
Children's yoghurts in a shop. Copyright: © 2023. Provided by Impact on Urban Health licensed via a?CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
Girl shopping in a supermarket. Copyright: © 2023. Provided by Impact on Urban Health licensed via a?CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
Recipe for Change panel LPC 2025. Credit: Sustain

Food for the Planet

Helping local authorities to tackle the climate and nature emergency through food.
A group of people in a field looking to the sky. Credit: Teasel Coop | Phoebe Davies | Culture Roots Collective
Schoolboy holding food tray in canteen. Copyright: wavebreakmedia | shutterstock
Participants from the fellowship standing in a group. Credit: Bertha Challenge

Good Food Local

Supporting local authorities to create more healthy and sustainable food systems in their local areas.
Good Food Local - North East report. Credit: Sustain
Good Food Local: Map. Credit: Sustain
Food Box from Food Co-Ops, Plymouth. Credit: Kelly Fritzsche, Food Co-Ops Coordinator, Plymouth

Food Poverty

Championing people-powered projects that tackle the root causes of food poverty.
Plant roots. Credit: Woodland Farm, Phoebe Davies for Culture Roots Collective
Young woman with small child buying tomatoes.. Copyright: andreonegin | shutterstock
. Copyright: 71gazza | istock

Local Food Plan

Creating a plan to grow the local food sector 10x by 2030.
Seasonal vegetables sold in a stall at Brockley Market, London. Copyright: Paolo Paradiso | Istock
Food Hub. Copyright: Rachel Jones
Veg box Sitopia Farm. Copyright: Rachel Jones

Sustainable Food Places

Network bringing together over 100 local food partnerships.
Fruit and food distribution truck.. Credit: Aleksandar Malivuk / Shutterstock
Community hot meals in Newham. Credit: Newham Food Alliance
Sustaianble Food Places attendees outside of Portcullis House, Westminster, 2025. Credit: Jonathan Goldberg

Capital Growth

Connecting a network of London growers.
Critter Consultant trinaing at Kentish Town City Farm. Credit: Lula Wattam
Garden with hosepipe in drought conditions. Credit: Lula Wattam
Jade from Black Growth CIC harvesting courgettes. Credit: Black Growth CIC

Good to Grow

National network of local community gardens helping to support more people getting into gardening.
Good to Grow Day 2022 at Cranbrook Community Garden. Credit: Cranbrook Community Garden
An Incredible Edible Prestwich volunteer planting . Credit: Incredible Edible Prestwich
Garden of Earthly Delights in Hackney . Credit: Fi McAllister

Real Bread Campaign

Finding and sharing ways to make bread better for us, our communities and planet.

Labelled with loaf. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Dough for women in food. Credit: Canva
UK cities with most indie bakeries per 100k people. Copyright: Hiscox Experts

Archived projects and campaigns

#50Fountains Challenge
We are calling on local areas to provide 50 working public drinking fountains.

Better Food Britain
We want everyone to be able to enjoy food that is good for our health, produced in a way that supports good livelihoods, reduced waste and greenhouse...

Better Hospital Food
The campaign represents a coalition of organisations calling on the Westminster government to introduce mandatory nutritional, environmental and...

Brexit
We stand at a cross-roads. When the UK leaves the European Union, will our leaders uphold good standards for our food, farming, fishing and trade...

Bucks Food Partnership
Providing the framework to generate and support local action to improve the food system in Buckinghamshire.

Children's Health Fund
Set up by Jamie Oliver and Sustain in August 2015, the aim is to get restaurants to volunteer to put a 10p levy on non-alcoholic soft drinks with...

Climate Change and Nature
Sustain has taken a keen interest in the rapidly accumulating evidence about the effect of food and farming on climate change and nature, as...

Food Co-ops
Building community wealth, supporting the planet and championing farmers.

Food Learning Forum
The Food Learning Forum is a peer-learning network of food focused organisations that connects and develops the food and farming sector through...

Food Power
Food Power is an exciting new programme working with local communities across the UK to strengthen their ability to reduce food poverty.

Food Waste
Sustain supports a reduction in food surplus, loss and waste.

FoodSHIFT 2030
Leading an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon, circular future.

Fringe Farming
The Fringe Farming project is a collaboration with partners across the UK to understand barriers, identify land opportunities and local actions, and...

Good Catch
Good Catch provides practical information for chefs, caterers and restaurateurs, making it easier for them to serve more sustainable seafood.

Good Food for All Londoners
In our annual Beyond the Food Bank and Good Food for London league tables and series of good food maps, we shine a light on each council's...

Good Food For London
How London boroughs can help secure a healthy and sustainable food future

Good Food Trade Campaign
Campaigning for good trade that benefits people and the planet at home and overseas.

Growing Health
Growing Health is a national project run by Garden Organic and Sustain, which is funded by the Tudor Trust, to see how community food growing can be...

London Food Link
London Food Link brings together community food enterprises and projects that are working to make good food accessible to everyone in London to help...

National Food Strategy
Launched in two parts over 2020-2021, the National Food Strategy is an independent review commissioned by government to set out a vision and a plan...

Older People's Food Campaign
Meals on wheels services support thousands of older people every day to stay independent in their own homes and enrich their lives.

Olympic Food
Sustain ran a five-year programme of work to win healthy and sustainable food standards for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Organic Sector Development
We are helping to bring the organic message to the UK consumer with the Organic. Naturally Different campaign.

Parents' Jury
Giving a voice to parents concerned about the food environment their children grow up in.

Planning Food Cities
Shaping the future of local areas to create a more sustainable and local food system.

REUL
Campaigning for high food and farming standards and for trade deals that don’t undermine them.

Right to Food
Everyone has the right to enjoy safe, nutritious and sustainable food. This project advocates the realisation of the Right to Food in UK law.

Save Our Antibiotics
The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics is a coalition of health, medical, environmental and animal welfare groups campaigning to stop the overuse of...

Sugar Smart UK
Want your local area to become Sugar Smart?

Supermarkets, health and sustainability
Sustain has worked in particular with the Greening Supermarkets, Healthier Supermarkets and Race to the Top initiatives to stimulate changes in...

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

Sustainable Food
What you can do - and ask others to do - to help make our food and farming system fit for the future.

Urban Food Fortnight
Urban Food Fortnight, the annual celebration of London's local larder, September 2019

Veg Cities
We need your help to get your city or local area growing, cooking, selling and saving more vegetables.

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