🌟 Exciting Opportunity! 🌟
Apply to join Sustain's Recipe for Change team as a Campaigns Intern!
www.sustainweb.org/jobs/campaig...
#JobOpportunity #CampaignsIntern #SocialChange #FoodAndFarming #HealthierFood #PublicMobilisation #CommunityEngagement #DiversityAndInclusion
📢 We're hiring a Public Affairs Lead!
An exciting opportunity has come up help us influence the political agenda about the impacts of the food system on our diets, our health and our planet.
More info & apply: ➡️ bit.ly/3CoZaoy
Nearly all major UK supermarkets, including Waitrose, Morrisons, Sainsburys, Asda and LIDL, back Tesco’s call for government to introduce mandatory health reporting on food and drink 👏
Great news - Sustain welcomes boost to free school meal access!
▶️ Government announces all pupils from households in receipt of Universal Credit will become eligible for free school meals
▶️ 500,000 + children will become eligible, from September 2026
www.sustainweb.org/news/jun25-f...
🗣️ 'This is a really big day for children and families up and down the country!'
Our Executive Director Anna Taylor reacts to government plans extend #FreeSchoolMeals on @bbc5live.bsky.social this morning.
Listen in full: bit.ly/3ZFd6rl
@rachelburden.bsky.social @rickedwards1.bsky.social
From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "Any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit will be able to claim free school meals from September 2026, the government has said."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK Government bows to industry: delaying TV and online advertising restrictions again
Food partnerships are delivering as a national infrastructure for local change - and need better resourcing, stronger political support, and greater collaboration at all levels to continue having impact ✊
Over two-thirds are reshaping their local food systems.
82% have influenced councillors, MPs, or mayors.
81% of food partnerships in the survey report strong engagement with local authorities.
The new SFP Impact and Priorities Survey captures the powerful role food partnerships are playing in strengthening food systems across the UK...
bit.ly/4jVK3HQ
📊 We're excited to announce our launch date for the 2025 Action Scorecards!
🚀 The 2025 Council Climate Action Scorecards will be released on Tuesday, 17th of June brought to you by @mySociety.org and CE UK!
#localgov #climateaction
📣 #GoodFoodLocal is a free national platform to assist local authorities to deliver on complex
issues such as food poverty, public health, economy and climate.
Book now for the launch on 22 May.
Sign up for the webinar 👇
www.sustainweb.org/events/mar25...
@sustainweb.org
Our quarterly newsletter went out on Friday, covering Social Network Analysis, and the two new publications from Sustainable Food Places that we've been involved in: their new anti-racism strategy, and their new impact and priorities survey report.
Sign-up below to read more!
bit.ly/3XtUgkV
Anti-racism in food systems isn't optional — it's essential.
Sustainable Food Places have released a Anti-Racism Strategy, a practical roadmap towards dismantling racism in food systems by embedding anti-racist practices across the network.
www.foodmatters.org/blog/anti-ra...
What's a place-based approach to food systems?
It’s about:
Seeing food systems holistically 🌍
Putting community at the centre 🤝
Making justice a priority ⚖️
Ben from our team explains why this matters more than ever, as part of the
@afnnetwork.bsky.social conference a few weeks ago
TBT last Tuesday when we were at the @afnnetwork.bsky.social ‘Big Tent’, sharing the stage for a panel discussion on ensuring a just transition while achieving net zero. Learn more about our work campaigning for a sustainable and just food future, here:
bit.ly/3FPioJn
📝 Do you have a knack for research?
We're looking for a Freelance Researcher to support our Bridging the Gap pilot with Alchemic Kitchen CIC. Conduct questionnaires and interviews to help improve our Queen of Greens service.
Find out more and apply now: buff.ly/ySEcx77
A sketch brainstormed by TABLE and illustrated by Roberta Aita representing a Bottom-up vision for the future of food.
Should the future of food systems be led from the bottom up?
We posed this vision to a diverse group of policymakers, community leaders, philanthropists, & academics.
We've published a report about what they agreed & disagreed on--& how to move toward food system transformation:
buff.ly/3EDqfUk
‘Serving Up’ report graphic
📢 Shifting to more sustainable healthy food in UK school and hospital meals could:
✅Save the NHS £millions
✅Fight climate change
✅Improve the nation’s health.
That's why we’ve joined @feedbackglobal.bsky.social and 25 health & environmental organisations calling for change: tinyurl.com/5etdtw2v
▶️ We're hiring! Sustain is seeking a dynamic, organised and personable individual with a keen interest in food growing to join our Capital Growth team as our Food Growing and Networks Officer.
▶️ Deadline: 31 March
🎬 Recording of the webinar can be found here: www.foodmatters.org/blog/feeding... (5/5)
Inside Time magazine covered the third instalment of our own Food in Prisons series - 'Feeding Justice: The Role of Food In Women’s Prisons' where we explored the different meanings food has for women within prisons.
Read Rachel's article here: insidetime.org/comment/what... (4/5)
For 2024/25, governors in England and Wales have been allocated £3.01 per prisoner per day for meals - suggesting that most will need to raid other budgets to top up their kitchen spending. (3/5)
In Scotland, the cost was £4.12 per prisoner per day. Data was provided by HM Prison and Probation Service, and the Scottish Prison Service. (2/5)
(A thread🧵) A Freedom of Information (FOI) investigation by InsideTime on prison food has revealed the following figures:
In 2023/24, the average cost of feeding a prisoner in England and Wales was £3.07 per day - a rise of 15 per cent from the previous year’s figure of £2.68. (1/5)
World Obesity Day graphic
🌍 This year's World Obesity Day is shining a spotlight on the fact it's our food systems - not people - that need to change!
Policymakers need to transform our food environment by increasing the affordability, availability and appeal of healthy food.
Learn more: ➡️ bit.ly/3PR0Gal
#BrokenPlate
Today, on #WorldObesityDay, we’re looking back to our recent report by @proftimjackson.bsky.social, 'The False Economy of Big Food,' which found that the health and productivity costs of our current food system are a staggering £268bn per year.
We’ll be speaking at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social tomorrow, covering how we practically approach the challenge of measuring impact across the food system. Learn more about our approach to this via the Sustainable Food Places:
📒 Evidence database- bit.ly/3DpkdvN
📈 Impact hub - bit.ly/41DaKdA
