Food activism UK resources

This article is an offshoot of Food activism UK.

More Video:

• Gleaning Network UK on Vimeo
• The Big Lunch 2013 (longer version) on youtube
• Everyday Growing Futures (13 minutes, 2013) on youtube
• Tim Lang & Andrew Simms in Conversation, on youtube, 2009
• Local Food Roots, a film celebrating the local food movement in the UK, 35 minutes

• Moving food markets and farmers' markets online, community.openfoodnetwork.org.uk, added 16:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
• How to start a community gardening group, April 9 2016 telegraph.co.uk
• How Your Neighbourhood Can Have Its Own Community Allotment, August 14, 2015 huffingtonpost.co.uk

• Find a better food trader, betterfoodtraders.org, added 14:45, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
• Community Orchards map from People's Trust for Endangered Species
• FoodTrade

• The UK suffers from low levels of food security, and imports around 46 per cent of the total food it consumes.
• Research shows urban farms could supply up to four times the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables that the UK currently imports.^[1]

Article series: A People's Food Policy

A comprehensive proposal for a more just and sustainable food system in England^[2]

A ground-breaking manifesto outlining a people's vision of food and farming in England that is supported by over 80 food and farming organizations. The report draws on 18 months of extensive, nation-wide consultations with grassroots organizations, NGOs, trade unions, community projects, small businesses and individuals. It has resulted in a set of policy proposals and a vision for change that is rooted in the lived experiences and needs of people most affected by the failures in the current food system.

A People's Food Policy is an extensive report, extending to 100 pages across 9 thematic chapters covering governance, food production, health, land, labour, environment, knowledge and skills, trade and finance - each with an in depth analysis and policy proposals for transforming the food system in England. June, 2017

• The National Food Strategy, An independent review for government, July 2021

• Innovative Farmers, "network of farmers and growers who are running on-farm trials, on their own terms."
• Agroforestry Research Trust
• Rethinking Britain's Food Security - Soil Association, pdf, 2008

Daylesford Foundation

• 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!

• FOOD CITIZENSHIP, How thinking of ourselves differently can change the future of our food system. Findings of the Future of Food: a collaborative innovation project, added 19:15, 17 May 2020 (UTC)^[3]
• 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
• Feeding Body and Soul, Year-Long Photographic Exploration of An Agrarian Renaissance
• Master Composters, Garden Organic has trained over 600 Master Composter volunteers from around the UK to spread the home composting message. ^W
• Growing for change: creating good livelihoods for a better food system, A guide for community food enterprises sharedassets.org.uk
• Community Fridge, Hubbub Foundation
• Local Land Economies, from sharedassets.org.uk, see also Land Explorer, a project from Shared Assets, helping you find information on land in the UK
• Local economic resilience: the role of community food enterprises, a guide for local authorities, from sharedassets.org.uk
• 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
• Protect your plots, information from the the National Allotment Society
• Tips for swap and share stalls, Rock Abundance
• Wittenham Hill Cider Portal
• Saving allotments with the community rights, Locality
• Allotments Law & Community Growing, farmgarden.org.uk

FoodCycle is 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, people at risk of food poverty and social isolation. The organization is headquartered in London and has operations throughout the United Kingdom ^W

• FoodCycle, Map of project locations, foodcycle.org.uk, links checked 13:57, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

• End Child Food Poverty

see for example About Southend in Transition community alloment

• cofarm.co, added 16:03, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Growing for change: creating good livelihoods for a better food system, A guide for community food enterprises sharedassets.org.uk

• Food for Life

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

How to Farm Regeneratively at Home, Feb 23, 2021, loddingtonfarm.co.uk

2019

See also: Commons UK

local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages