- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Free training on healthy and sustainable food for public sector caterers
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- 2,012 new food growing spaces for London by 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- Pledge to make our future an organic future
- To increase the enjoyment, production and consumption of bread made with natural ingredients
News
Careless government spending threatens wild fish survival - David Drew MP introduces legislation in Parliament to stop the public sector buying endangered fish.
Celebrity chef Loyd Grossman joins attack on government for hospital food failure - Loyd Grossman responds to the Good Food for Our Money campaign's 'A Decade of Hospital Food Failure' report by declaring 'it is a scandal that improving hospital catering remains far from the top of the NHS agenda'.
Government wastes over £50m on hospital food failure - The Government has wasted over £50 million since the year 2000 on at least 17 separate initiatives to improve hospital food, which have resulted in almost no improvement to the quality of meals served, or to their nutritional and environmental value.
Sustain welcomes Government announcement on health and climate change - Sustain's reponse to The Government announcement on health and climate change.
Contact us
Contact Alex Jackson by email at alex@sustainweb.org or by telephone on 020 7837 1228. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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The Campaign
The government spends more than £2 billion of taxpayers' money each year on public sector food. That means every individual UK taxpayer spends about £70 each year on food eaten in schools, hospitals, care homes, armed forces and all other public organisations throughout the country.
The Good Food for Our Money Campaign wants new government legislation to set standards for this public sector food, so that food bought with our money:
- is healthy
- is good for the environment
- invests in local and sustainable suppliers.
At the moment, our money pays for food that can be harmful to our health, damaging to the environment and fails to invest in local and sustainable suppliers, and in fair trade with poor countries. And there are no rules to stop this happening. The Good Food for Our Money campaign demands that government introduce new rules so that we know our money is being spent on good food.
Downloads
Report on hospital food failure
"A Decade of Hospital Food Failure" reveals that more than £50m of taxpayers' money has been spent by government on failed voluntary attempts to improve hospital food in the last ten years. Download the report here!
European food law is on our side!
Despite the confusion about EU procurement law, there is much to cheer about the influence of Europe on our public sector food! Read our paper to find out how EU procurement law encourages the purchase of sustainable public sector food.
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The Portcullis Counter
We have lots of meetings with MPs from all political parties at Westminster to campaign for mandatory health, sustainability and ethical standards for public sector food. For a bit of fun, we're showing a record of these meetings at Portcullis House by copying the security passes we needed to get in...... We'll stop when we achieve Good Food for Our Money legislation!
