Coordinator Campaigns Breakfast

Register for SFP campaigns breakfast

Join this session to hear about two new campaigns led by Sustain and opportunities to get involved. Scroll down for more information about the campaigns and launch dates.

SAY YES to School Food For All is a new coalition campaign led by Sustain’s Children’s Food Campaign calling on the nation to back a shared vision of healthy school meals for ALL pupils in the UK by 2030.

SEND INDUSTRIAL MEAT PACKING is a new Sustain campaign inviting councils to join a community of practice to stop more mega factory farms being built.

Programme

10.00 Welcome

10.05 Say Yes to School Meals campaign, short presentation followed by Q&A – Barbara Crowther, Campaign Coordinator, Children’s Food Campaign, Sustain

10.25 Send Industrial Meat Packing, short presentation followed by Q&A – Ruth Westcott, Campaign Coordinator, Climate Change and Nature, Sustain

11.00 End

SAY YES to School Food For All is a new coalition campaign led by Sustain’s Children’s Food Campaign calling on the nation to back a shared vision of healthy school meals for ALL pupils in the UK by 2030.

In this session you will:

• Learn about why we’re calling for universal school meals across the UK
• Find out about the SAY YES campaign, new film and website
• Explore how you can be involved in the campaign when it launches on 9 March 2023
• Share ideas for what SFP networks might do, and what will be useful to help you

Good nutrition is as essential to learning and pupil concentration as books, desks, chairs and bathrooms in our schools. From several US states to India and Brazil, Finland and Norway, a healthy lunch is offered to every pupil regardless of background. They’re already provided to all infant schoolchildren in England and currently being introduced for all primary school pupils in Scotland and Wales. We want our Governments to stop saying no to children and commit to the progressive ending of means testing of children for school meals. The campaign aims to unite voices across the nation, from local communities to 10 Downing Street in saying YES to school food for all.

SEND INDUSTRIAL MEAT PACKING

On 9th April 2023, the BBC will air the final episode of David Attenborough’s new ‘Wild Isles’ series. At the same time, we will launch a new campaign against the large meat companies that are imposing themselves on our countryside with industrial chicken, pig and cow sheds, dumping pollution in local rivers and air, and offering spurious – often ridiculous – environmental and economic claims to force councils to approve planning permission.

We are inviting councils to join a community of practice to try to stop any more mega farms being built. Joining means:

• Committing to assessing the impact of industrial meat in your area and developing the planning policy you need to prevent biodiversity decline and wildlife loss from these factories (This is a requirement of the new Environment Act for England – so we can help you meet that requirement)  
• Gaining access to specialist expertise, example docs and other resources, as well as a forum to share ideas

Come along and find out more about how food partnerships can help send industrial meat packing. We’d love some councils to sign up in advance, and/or when we launch, so we can do some groundwork now.