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Campaigns

GM Freeze

Resources

• Community Land Advisory Service
• Community supported agriculture, information from the Soil Association
• The Ecological Land Co-operative, supporting and enabling low-impact development in the UK ^W
• Everyday Growing Cultures, site includes a toolkit to help getting started with community growing
• Master Composters, Garden Organic has trained over 600 Master Composter volunteers from around the UK to spread the home composting message. ^W
• Master Gardeners, Garden Organic's Master Gardeners Programme trains and supports mentors and community growing initiatives around the Country working with Local Authorities, Housing Associations and NHS Health providers to support networks of Master Gardeners and volunteers. ^W
• Open Food Network, "An open marketplace that makes it easy to find, buy, sell and move sustainable local food."
• Protect your plots, information from the the National Allotment Society
• Tips for swap and share stalls, Rock Abundance
• Wittenham Hill Cider Portal

Community allotment

see for example About Southend in Transition community alloment

Local food

• Resources from Making Local Food Work, a BIG Lottery project which ended in 2013

Apps for sustainability

• Landshare, high-profile national garden sharing project in England, spearheaded by celebrity chef and TV personality Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, in conjunction with public-service broadcaster Channel 4. Growers, landowners and volunteers can, at no charge, register their interest in participating in a share in their area. There are over 55,000 members. Although this is a number that have registered since 2009 when the social enterprise was first publicized widely, since then its activity has decreased. ^W
• LandSpot, mapping derelict land across the UK that could be put to growing use
• LetsGrow, helping to get your council take your request for an allotment seriously!

Events

Sustain's website includes an online Food Calendar

Maps

FoodTrade

Research

Rethinking Britain's Food Security - Soil Association, pdf, 2008

Video

More Video:

Local Food Roots, a film celebrating the local food movement in the UK, 35 minutes

Everyday Growing Futures (13 minutes, 2013) on youtube

Tim Lang & Andrew Simms in Conversation, on youtube, 2009

See also

• Food, sustainable community action
• local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
• Towards sustainable economies UK

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Food bank, United Kingdom, Food waste in the United Kingdom

External links

• Abundance Network, a group of volunteers passing on information and support between some of the fruit harvesting groups across the UK
• FareShare, fighting hunger, tackling food waste.

FareShare is an award-winning charity aimed at relieving food poverty and reducing food waste in the UK. It does this by rescuing good quality surplus food that would otherwise have gone to waste and sending it to over 700 charity and community projects across the United Kingdom.

FareShare only redistributes food inside its best before and use by date; in 2012 they rescued 3,600 tonnes of food which would have otherwise gone to landfill. FareShare works with all sectors of the supply chain; producers, manufacturers and retailers. All of the major UK food retailers have encouraged their suppliers to work with FareShare to minimise food waste. FareShare has also run two successful food drives with both Sainsbury's and Tesco.

FareShare contributed towards more than 8.6 million meals in 2012, which equates to feeding 36,500 people a day. This food is delivered to a broad range of grass root organisations all across the UK including homeless shelters, day centres, women’s refuge centres and children's breakfast clubs. ^W

• FoodCycle, a UK charity that rescues surplus food that would otherwise be wasted and uses these ingredients to create healthy three-course meals for vulnerable people in the community. The organization is headquartered in London, England and has operations throughout the United Kingdom ^W
• The Food Assembly's Blog
• Food For All, "...registered charity based in London (also in other parts of the UK), which distributes over 1,000, spiritually enriched nutritionally balanced vegetarian meals, to different groups of people, including the homeless, disadvantaged, financially challenged and the ‘needy’ on a daily basis, for free!"
• Gleaning Network UK
• Incredible Edible network, global network originating in, and with many members in the UK
• Pesticide Action Network UK
• Reclaim the Fields
• Soil Association, charity based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1946, it has over 27,000 members today. Its activities include campaign work on issues including opposition to intensive farming, support for local purchasing and public education on nutrition; as well the certification of organic food. It developed the world's first organic certification system in 1967 – standards which have since widened to encompass agriculture, aquaculture, ethical trade, food processing, forestry, health & beauty, horticulture and textiles. Today it certifies over 80% of organic produce in the UK. ^W
• Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming
• Sustainable Food Cities

Food growing

• Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
• National Allotment Society

Local food

• f3, local food consultants

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