National & global food news, issues and campaigns, and food organisations we support and work with towards a greener, fairer, healthier food economy.
The Open Food Network
The OFN is an open source software platform that enables food producers, retailers, wholesalers and communities to sell produce online. The software is designed to foster co-operation, collaboration and fairness in the food system. Read more…
Food Ethics Council
A charity that provides independent advice on the ethics of food and farming, with the aim of creating a food system that is fair and healthy for people, animals and the environment.
Food Citizenship
A project from the Food Ethics Council: How thinking of ourselves differently can change the future of our food system.
Lincoln Climate Commission
The climate commission – a collaboration between stakeholders across Lincoln and Lincolnshire – is working on a road map to achieve the City Council’s target of net zero carbon by 2030.
The Trussell Trust
Our aim is to end hunger and poverty in the UK. We support a nationwide network of food banks and together we provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.
Incredible Edible
A network of food groups, with a vision to create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food.
Sustain
A multitude of different projects and campaigns to improve food and farming, with the help of our members and other supporters.
FareShare
FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 17 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups.
The first major review of our food system in 75 years.
Read our response to it here.
Making it happen in Lincoln
Local food news from our blog
Willoughby Road Allotment Association: The Power of Allotments for Community, Kindness and Learning
Allotments are often sites of surprising diversity, community, wellbeing and intergenerational connection. But the people of Willoughby Road Allotment Association have taken this to a whole new level, and show the incredible capacity for allotment spaces to bring diverse communities together, and to propagate kindness! I spoke with Paul Collingwood and Gerry Ladds, who areContinue reading “Willoughby Road Allotment Association: The Power of Allotments for Community, Kindness and Learning”
Low Fulney Family Allotments
Family Services Goes Outdoors! “We were working with a group of Young People who were permanently excluded from school, and there was this one girl who told us about her trips with her Grandad to his allotment. They were good memories. So we said to ourselves, could we have an allotment, where more young youngContinue reading “Low Fulney Family Allotments”
Growing Food at Lincoln St Faith’s
The National Food Strategy is the UK’s first comprehensive review of the food system in over 75 years. It was commissioned by the government and lays out concrete proposals for how our food system needs to be reformed to meet health, nature and climate targets. Interestingly, it has a lot to say about schools. FoodContinue reading “Growing Food at Lincoln St Faith’s”
