Changes to the way card payments are made
You may be aware that legislative changes have arrived that change the way shoppers make card purchases online. The changes are known as Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). These changes have been implemented to protect customers from fraud when making card payments...
Voices from our first Community Gathering
Last Wednesday producers, retailers and representatives from community food organisations met in The Friends of the Earth Warehouse, Birmingham, with the OFN UK team. It was a unique opportunity for people, from as far and wide as Cornwall to the Outer Hebrides, to...
We’ve got new funding!
We’re very pleased to announce that Open Food Network UK has been awarded funding from the Big Lottery Community Fund Digital Stream. The BLCF Digital Fund aims to boost the social tech sector in the UK. The fund is supporting charities to use digital to transform the...
Want to grow your community food enterprise in 2020? – OFN Group Coaching
In February OFN UK will be launching our next Group Coaching Programme. This programme is perfect for anyone wanting to grow their sales and customers for their community food enterprise. A community food enterprise can be any enterprise that distributes food for the...
Join us at the Oxford Real Farming Conference!
Getting produce to customers and managing the distribution, retail and admin stuff is often a real sticking point for food enterprises. So the Open Food Network has been set up by a group of community activists who are passionate about setting up local food systems...
Big Improvements to your Shopfront
The latest release of the Open Food Network was deployed this week. Although it doesn’t look different we’ve made some big changes to improve the performance of your shopfront behind the scenes. Shopfronts with up to 10,000 products will load within 2 seconds. This is...
In support of Extinction Rebellion
Several people in the Open Food Network (OFN) have been drawn to support the Extinction Rebellion (XR) in recent days. They are joining thousands of ordinary people from all walks of life who are taking the extraordinary (for them) step of taking to the streets and...
Win a Marketing Support Package for your Shop!
At the Open Food Network, our primary mission is to help food enterprises to thrive! So we’re offering two of our food enterprises the chance to WIN bespoke marketing support to help promote and build your enterprise in the lead up to Christmas and beyond. Two...