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 Open Food Network (OFN) is a not-for-profit, open source software platform that enables farmers, growers and community food enterprises 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
The Role of Foodbanks
By the end of 2024 it is estimated that between 1 and 2 million UK households will come off ‘fixed rate’ mortgage deals, while at the same time, rents are rising and the increase in cost of essential items continues to outpace what we earn; this is about to put an even greater number of…
Food as a public good
We were waiting anxiously in hospital with our 6 year old. He was in considerable pain, and not allowed to eat or drink while he awaited an emergency operation to have his appendix out. Grateful to be offered a bed in the children’s ward, we browsed the large and attractive wall posters as we waited,…
Welcome to Chris Haydon!
We’re really pleased to have Chris Haydon join us from this week (Feb 12th) to help out with administering across the range of Partnership projects. I asked Chris about his thoughts on the role on day one… “As you know, I’ve been a supporter of the work the Greater Lincolnshire Food Partnership do in the…
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