SFP Day of Celebration and Action 2025

The Sustainable Food Places (SFP) annual Day of Celebration and Action takes place this year on the morning of 5th November in the Attlee Suite of Portcullis House, Westminster, London SW1A 2LW.

The event is open to representatives from SFP network member food partnerships, as well as MPs and government officials. The event gives food partnership and community representatives a chance to strengthen their relationships with their parliamentary representatives, discuss food-related issues that matter most to their communities, and identify ways to advocate collectively for Government action to transform the food environment to benefit public and environmental wellbeing.

A central call of the SFP network is to ensure all communities benefit from food system improvements by having a food strategy at every strategic authority level, developed and delivered in partnership with cross-sector organisations and communities. 

Read the Sustainable Food Places policy positions in full here.

This year is a key moment in food and farming, including the development of a national Food Strategy that recognises the role of vibrant local food cultures, the transformational work of place-based actors such as food partnerships, and need for whole system approach to good food. Government is also investing in communities through the Plan for Neighbourhoods and Pride in Place Impact funding offering an opportunity to use food to improve health, create jobs and strengthen communities. And English devolution and reorganisation ushers a new layer of governance and decision-making, and calls on food partnerships to step up in how they support food systems transformation and represent community priorities.

The Sustainable Food Places Network brings together 123 pioneering food partnerships from towns, cities, boroughs, districts and counties across the UK that are driving innovation and best practice on all aspects of healthy and sustainable food. Sustainable Food Places is a partnership programme led by the Soil Association, Food Matters, Sustain, Food Sense Wales, and Nourish Scotland. It is funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.