Many small food businesses have moved their trade online during the lockdown. Sustain has currated a (non-exhaustive) list of websites which host several independent food businesses selling their produce. If you…
Written for the Sustainable Food Trust – A light at the end of the Covid tunnel? by Patrick Holden on 24 April, 2020 in Food Systems In farming and food systems, as in every other…
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system? by Honor May Eldridge – Head of Policy on 24 April, 2020 in Business and Food, Food Policy, Food Systems In the last few weeks, we…
A month of the Covid-19 pandemic has now passed and these unprecedented show no signs of easing. Food businesses, restaurants and organisations have had to make difficult decisions. Some have…
Our friends at Peas Please have developed a survey to track people’s experiences of fruit and veg access during the Covid-19 crisis. Please click the link to complete it: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQnxikQZDE4EPO7bAznwUm7kR4D7eLx9iDi2cYXwS_2bueFQ/viewform…
Visual Exhibition + 3 short ‘Food Equality Plymouth’ films of our Workshops We are excited to share with you the visual outputs of our Year 1 Workshops! These detail experiences…
The Food Foundation have launched their Covid-19 tracker to better understand how our food system is being impacted and what effect this will have on UK citizens. COVID-19 is having…
Support your local businesses and #Shop4Plymouth The current crisis affects us on both a global and local level, with restrictions on movement impacting the way we live – including the…
Is Covid-19 driving a new food and farming system? Vicki Hird is a Sustainable Farm Campaign Coordinator at Sustain, where she manages their farm policy and related campaigning. Read her…
Plymouth Food Equality Project – April 2020 We are excited to present the visual outputs of our Year 1 workshops! These detail experiences of food topics which we gathered at…
A webinar for Social Enterprises to learn how to use E-commerce ideas for new ways of doing business and maintaining customer contact. Aimed at non-technical people, and delivered by a…
THe SFC have asked us to circulate the following survey as they are currently collating information about how food producers and suppliers are diversifying their models in the UK to cope…
Good advice from the Children’s Commissioner for England With children now staying at home to protect themselves and others from coronavirus, digital technology is playing a bigger role than ever…
Together with School Food Matters, Food Foundation, Food for Life & Chefs in Schools, the Children’s Food Campaign is hosting a free webinar on Friday 17th April, 11-12.30 to hear what local…
Small emergency loan programme for food production Funding Enlightened Agriculture (FEA) is a network of organisations and individuals who wish to support agricultural and food production practices that are economically…
Veg Power resources for families at home. Though the Eat Them To Defeat Them schools campaign had to wrap up early, the schools resources are all available to download at…
Support call for an emergency “land army” package The Landworkers’ Alliance, who represent more than 1,000 small, medium, community, and family farmers in the UK, are calling for an investment of £9.3 million…
The Food Standards Agency has refreshed our long-standing community cooking guidance to reflect the welcome increase in individuals and community groups supplying vulnerable people with food during the coronavirus pandemic. …
“We won’t forget Covid-19 easily. It is a reminder that our fundamental strengths lie in the connections that exist between people. It is an opportunity to give the respect most…
Food Plymouth’s positive relationship with the REconomy Centre and Totnes 10 as well as our work with other partners in the Devon New Economies movement, leads us to share this…
Defra are publishing a daily update on the coronavirus response. This sets out the wide range of measures that the food industry has taken in recent weeks to support its…
Here is a really helpful schedule of online breastfeeding support available in the city. Please share among your networks and to those who you feel would benefit.
This helpful webinar is aimed at restaurants who are considering delivering food during this pandemic. https://foodmadegood.org/webinar-delivery-made-good/
Newsletter | 1st April 2020 https://mailchi.mp/01cfecf81c01/heart-of-the-south-west-growth-hub-covid-19-support-for-business-4371719?e=df761a64d9
We are grateful to Dr Rosalind (Lindy) Sharpe for signposting us and our fellow Sustainable Food Network colleagues to this resource to share with you all. It comes with this…
The Department for Education has announced a national cash voucher scheme for children normally getting free school meals who are now at home. Families will receive £15 per week to spend…
See below this new initiative being run by partners across the city with details of how you can get involved.