During Covid 19 Food Plymouth’s Food Equality Project began work on a Food Access Guide for Plymouth. This was a response to the acute pressures experienced by many individuals, families and communities due to the Coronavirus lockdown and beyond. The Guide attempts to map and support navigation through the emergency food aid available in…
DetailsNew scheme to help people access food and essentials during COVID Plymouth City Council is launching a new scheme to ensure that people who are struggling to afford food and other essentials because of the impact of COVID-19 are able to access them. The Council has received almost £343,180 from the Government’s Emergency Assistance Grant…
DetailsTENDER OPPORTUNITY We are seeking dynamic, resourceful and passionate contractor to join the Food Plymouth team as our new Sustainable Food Places Partnership and Network Coordinator. This exciting new role will be responsible for maximizing Plymouth’s collective impact around food to lead the partnership, catalysing and co-ordinating activities towards our shared vision of achieving the Sustainable Food Places silver standard…
DetailsThe government wants your views on public sector food The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee is consulting on public procurement. Online consultation closes 27th August Anyone with an interest in, or information about school, hospital, armed forces, prison, or older people’s food is encouraged to submit evidence, and you have until 27th August…
DetailsWho Do you want to shop locally? Do you want to make a difference in Devon? Do you want to be sustainable? Then this is for you. What & Where A big internet shout for Devon When Wednesday 19th August How Post on your favourite social media. Post about your business, your society, or yourself.…
DetailsNational Food Strategy – first report of recommendations to Government launched The report reflects on the information gathered through the broad consultation excercise of the last year, and focuses recommendations around poverty and trade, in light of the challenges from Coronavirus, ahead of a full report due in 2021. Read Sustain’s response. Pexels Ben Reynolds,…
DetailsCampaigners celebrate reinstatement of school fruit and veg Public Health Minister Jo Churchill said to journalists that the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme will resume as normal in Autumn when all children return to school. While we wait for official confirmation, this is not the end of the campaign for more fruit and veg in…
DetailsPester Power or Parent Power? Parents want to see an end to the use of popular children’s characters and brand mascots on food and drink high in fat, salt and sugar, according to a new report Pester Power or Parent Power? published by the Children’s Food Campaign and Food Active. Credit: Shutterstock image The Pester Power or Parent…
DetailsPlymouth Food Equality Project is delighted to be taking part in a fantastic series of creative workshops by Church Action on Poverty Join online to make a live, collaborative, multi-media collage where Lisa will be collecting topical items and photos from newspapers, social media and photos to make a powerful visual statement about experiences of food…
DetailsHungry for change: Peers call for food system failures to be fixed New report by the House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment examines how to make a healthy, sustainable diet accessible and affordable for everyone. Photo by Emma Bauso from Pexels The UK’s food system is failing, putting the health…
DetailsMaking sense of it: What’s happened and what next? 14/07/2020 14:00 15:00 When it comes to food insecurity, how do we assess what’s happened over the last months to address rising need in local areas? And how can different actors and new collaborators determine what should happen next? Join Sustain for this webinar to explore how we can…
DetailsThe value of local by Alicia Miller – Website Editor on 26 June, 2020 in Business and Food, Food Movement As I wrote when the pandemic swept in, the uptake in our box scheme during the lockdown was extraordinary. Within two weeks from its start, it had tripled from our usual 60 or so boxes to 180. And through out the…
DetailsLand sharing and land sparing: We need food in harmony with nature by Patrick Holden on 26 June, 2020 in Food Policy, Food Systems Interviewing Isabella Tree for our recent podcast has given me much cause for reflection about the relationship between farmers and the land they manage. In a way, I was quite disturbed by hearing Isabella’s story of how she and her…
DetailsHungry for Change: A briefing from Lord Krebs on the report from the House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment Webinar 08/07/2020 09:30 –10:15 Food Foundation During this briefing, Lord Krebs will discuss the findings of his committee’s year-long inquiry into the challenges facing our food system. It will be an…
DetailsCity University London’s next 2020 Food Thinkers webinar will be given by Johanna Ralston, CEO of World Obesity Federation on Wednesday 15 July, 5.15pm – 6.45pm, as part of their Women Redesigning Food Systems series. The complex interplay between obesity and food systems has been exacerbated by a narrative in which words and images misrepresent the drivers…
DetailsTHE OXFORD FARMING CONFERENCE OFC 2021 Sponsors Patrons Speakers Programme Videos Delegate info Other Years WELCOME Welcome to #OFC21 Bitesize, a series of one-hour events hosted virtually via our website at 12pm on the first Thursday of every month from June to December 2020, leading up to the 2021 virtual conference in January. The 2021…
DetailsThe Covid Food Emergency in Western Europe: the role of cities during and after the crisis Wednesday 1 July 11.00-12.30 (CET) / 10.00-11.30pm (BST) A webinar bringing together Terres en Ville, Sustain: the Alliance for Better Food and Farming, the Spanish Network of Cities for Agroecology and the Italian Network of Local Food Policies.…
DetailsParents! Share your views on children and food during Covid-19 Children’s Food Campaign and Food Active have launched a new survey with parents to find out how being in lockdown during Covid-19 has affected children’s eating habits, preferences and interest in food. Credit: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels The Coronavirus emergency has thrown up all sorts of new challenges for feeding…
DetailsCity-region perspectives on providing food for the vulnerable in times of COVID-19 The COVID-19 crisis saw city-regions from across the world respond to the emergency in a number of ways, with some local initiatives truly standing out. The latter have the potential to inform other urban communities on how local and national government, as well…
DetailsNew collective funding opportunity for Social Gastronomy organizations thanks to initial funding from The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Today, in celebration of Sustainable Gastronomy Day – a United Nations-designated day of observance of those using gastronomy sustainably to create a better and healthier planet for everyone – the Social Gastronomy Movement (SGM) is launching the…
DetailsCommunity food growing post lockdown 01/07/2020 10:30 12:00 Credit: Zoe Ward Aldam Wednesday 1 July 10.30am-12pm A webinar organised by Sustainable Food Places and Sustain for Capital Growth and Good to Grow gardens and food growing networks to stay connected, share latest updates and developments, how gardens and networks are responding and adapting to the gradual…
DetailsPublic wants more action on obesity in light of Covid19 74% of the British public want to see more Government action on obesity, in light of evidence showing links between Covid19 and obesity, says new Obesity Health Alliance research. Children’s Food Campaign responds. Credit: Obesity Health Alliance New public polling by the Obesity Health Alliance has revealed that Prime Minister Boris…
DetailsBack of the net! Campaigners celebrate free school meals win Whilst footballer Marcus Rashford scored the final winning goal in the free school meals campaign, the Government’s u-turn on holiday hunger follows months of campaigning, lobbying and the threat of legal action. Credit: Shutterstock The Government has today announced a £120 million “Covid Summer School Fund” in…
DetailsGood Food Businesses: rebuilding, reopening and retaining new customers 24/06/2020 15:00 16:30 Credit: Pexels Wednesday 24 June 3-4.30pm A webinar organised by Sustainable Food Places and Sustain, with the Real Bread Campaign and London Food Link. Good Food Businesses have shown their ability to adapt during the Covid-19 lockdown by swiftly establishing new and different ways…
DetailsBetween October and November 2019, BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, carried out a survey together with 12 of its member organisations across 11 EU countries1 to investigate consumer attitudes towards sustainable food. Click below to read the full report: Consumers and the transition to sustainable food
DetailsThis report has been written for the Social Market Foundation and looks at what lessons must be learned from the policy response to the 2008 financial crisis. It’s key focus that for Britain to “bounce back” from coronavirus , business must spend more money on investing in innovation, training and start-ups. In exchange for the…
DetailsCongratulations to Green Futures Associates on securing Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Funding for the innovative Urban Agriculture Consortium. Food Plymouth has been supporting this initiative since its early days. Indeed Jeremy Iles who heads up the Consortium joined us and our partners in the Thrive Plymouth Year 5 Spaces and Places for Food Expo event in…
DetailsNew manifesto identifies ‘fast actions’ to keep food SMEs in business COVID-19 has exposed the inflexibility of the UK’s food supply chains. A report by the Dynamic Food Procurement National Advisory Board calls on government and local areas to do better in a new ‘Manifesto for a resilient, adaptable and sustainable UK food system.’ Credit: Arkwright Community…
DetailsAdmirable national and local efforts were made to identify and support 1.5 million clinically vulnerable people but this would have been much easier had the infrastructure of a thriving meals-on-wheels service already been in existence. Furthermore, the Government has been reluctant to acknowledge financial vulnerability which was already prevalent in the UK and has only been exacerbated…
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