Food strategy

Go for Gold Food Grants

Posted February 5, 2020

Neil Smith Gold Food Grants are open - community food projects can apply for up to £850 to work with children, families & young people.

Becoming a gold food city: Planning, food growing and the rise of the urban orchard

Posted February 5, 2020

Give your feedback on the city's new draft Planning Advice Note on food growing and development.

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...