Food strategy

What do you think are the best ideas for improving the food system that the city has to offer?

Posted October 2, 2019

Help shape the food system of the future by sending your ideas to the Government's call for evidence for a National Food Strategy.

Veg City Challenge

Posted September 24, 2019

Calling all caterers and chefs: are you up for an exciting challenge to help inspire teens and young adults to eat more veg?  

An extraordinary year rewarded with not one but three awards

Posted August 7, 2019

To our pride and astonishment we have been rewarded with three very different awards over the last year.

City signs international food pact supporting sustainable, healthy, affordable food for all

Posted August 5, 2019

Brighton & Hove’s signing of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact marks another step towards the city becoming the UK’s first gold Sustainable Food City.

Help Brighton and Hove become the first Gold Sustainable Food City

Posted November 27, 2018

We marked the launch of the city’s bid to become the UK's first Gold Sustainable Food City, and the unveiling of the city’s new five-year Food...

Top marks for our Food Poverty Action Plan is good – but not good enough

Posted June 28, 2018

Brighton and Hove has been given a massive thumbs-up as a report assessing the progress of its Food Poverty Action Plan showed an impressive 93%...

Cooking up a food strategy for Brighton and Hove

Posted May 23, 2018

A ‘whole city’ approach to food has to combine the different contributions of food waste activists, policymakers, restaurants, health professionals, farmers, urban food growers, council...

Why giving the Living Wage to Brighton and Hove school caterers matters to us all

Posted April 16, 2018

We welcome the news that Brighton and Hove school caterers are to be paid the Real Living Wage.

City prepares battle plans for war on waste

Posted April 12, 2018

Food providers discuss ways to reduce the 70,000 tonnes of food waste produced each year in Brighton and Hove.