Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming

School Food Matters uses Sustain's 7 principles when defining 'sustainable food'. You can download see them by clicking on the link below.
7 Principles of Sustainable Food

The South East Food Group can put you in touch with local producers. They also work with New Covent Garden Market on 'Local to London' to get more local food on the capital's plates.
www.sefgp.co.uk

Richmond's Go Green Portal supports the government's Sustainable Schools framework with a gateway dedicated to food and drink
Go Green Richmond

Click below to download the School Food Trust's guide to sustainable procurement for school food.
www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk

If you are a London school or caterer looking for supplies of more sustainable food and drink, this London Food Link database is for you
www.sustainweb.org/localfoodfinder

London Food represents the diversity of London's food system and helped develop and deliver a London Food Strategy to improve the health of Londoners and make London's food sustainable over the ten years to 2016.
www.londonfoodstrategy.org.uk

Local Action on Food is a network that supports local and regional activity promoting healthy and sustainable food. Established in 2008, it seeks to represent and help members of the network, by running projects, organising events, sharing good practice and offering members other support services.
Local Action on Food

Farmer's Choice is Abel & Cole's non-profit fund-raising scheme for schools. Parents and teachers sign up for a bag of freshly harvested organic fruit and vegetables which will be delivered each week to your school. The school then receives 25% of the price of every bag sold.
Farmer's Choice

Freedom intercepts fresh yet unwanted fruit before it goes to waste and transforms it into healthy, delectable treats. Freedom's educational outreach team engages schoolchildren with the problem of wastage in the food industry using fun interactive games.
A Taste of Freedom