Sep 8, 2025 | News, Projects
English Over the past year, the Open Food Network UK has been working on an innovative pilot scheme to demonstrate the feasibility of supplying local food to the Welsh public plate. Working with partners from Social Farms and Gardens, Cultivate, Development Trust...
Jul 9, 2025 | News, Procurement, Projects
Open Food Network UK’s Nick Weir was our man in the field at Lannock Farm in Hertfordshire for Groundswell 2025. What did he get up to and what did he learn? Groundswell was a wonderful combination of heroic people, inspiring stories of world-changing projects,...
Apr 14, 2025 | News, Procurement, Procurement for Good, Projects
Continuing our series of hub visits as part of the Procurement For Good project, we travelled to London to visit the Better Food Shed, a thriving sustainable food procurement hub In March, the Procurement For Good project team travelled to London to visit project...
Mar 28, 2025 | News, Projects, Story
We are very pleased that The Flower Grower Collective (FGC) has been awarded funding through the prestigious Farming Innovation Programme. This exciting research project – co-funded by Innovate UK and Defra – is being led by flower farmers Zanna Hoskins...
Jan 20, 2025 | News, Story
The Open Food Network is now an ambassador for the EU Proximity and Social Economy Platform! Diesis is a global network of social entrepreneurs supporting the development of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social innovation. The Network aims to...
Jan 4, 2025 | Ambassadors, Governance, News
We are very pleased to welcome Manda Scott as an ambassador. This is what she said about the OFN: “You’re being the change we need to see. At a core level, we need total systemic change and shifting our food/farming system to something based in...
Dec 11, 2024 | News, Procurement, Procurement for Good, Projects
We are extremely excited to announce that we have started work on the Procurement For Good (P4G) project as of the beginning of October 2024. Procurement for Good (P4G) is a £1.9m research project led by Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and...
