Apr 14, 2025 | News, Procurement, 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...
Mar 7, 2025 | Procurement, Projects, Thriving Food Hubs
At the end of January the Procurement For Good (P4G) project team travelled to Dumfries for the first of four hub visits. The trip was planned to coincide with a round table event that was being hosted by Propagate and the Galloway Food Hub and brought together...
Dec 11, 2024 | News, Procurement, 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...
Jul 24, 2023 | News, Procurement, Projects
English Dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, mae’r Open Food Network UK wedi bod yn gweithio ar gynllun peilot arloesol i ddangos dichonoldeb cyflenwi bwyd lleol ar blât cyhoeddus Cymru. Gan weithio gyda phartneriaid o Ffermydd a Gerddi Cymdeithasol, Cultivate, Cymdeithas...
Jun 29, 2023 | News, Procurement, Projects
Cymraeg Over the past year, the Open Food Network (OFN) has been working on a groundbreaking pilot to demonstrate the feasibility of supplying local food onto the Welsh public plate. Working with partners from Social Farms & Gardens, Cultivate, Development Trusts...
Aug 3, 2022 | Data Interoperability, Governance, Projects
Here at the Open Food Network UK, we’re delighted to be hosting the Food Data Collaboration – an exciting National Lottery funded project to strengthen farmer-focussed supply chains through data interoperability. The first achievement of the Food Data...
Feb 14, 2022 | Data Interoperability, News, Projects
A new two-year Food Data Collaboration project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, is starting in March 2022. Project Coordinator Sophie Paterson explains what’s planned, who’s involved and why it’s...
