The Government set a legal requirement for the introduction of weekly food waste collections for all households by 1st April 2026. Shropshire Council says that funding provided is not sufficient due to the rurality of our county and the complexity of its contract with Veolia. As a result, it may not be able to provide weekly collections until 2039.Reducing food waste has been identified as a key “emergency brake” action to reduce climate change impacts but also helps reduce t

Sometimes resilience starts with something as simple as a shared meal, a packet of seeds, or learning what to do with a bag of vegetables you’ve never cooked before. Over the past six months, the Feeding Resilience Pilot in Telford & Wrekin has been quietly building something powerful through cooking, growing, sharing food, and creating spaces where people feel welcome. What started as a community-led pilot has reached around 200 people directly, with the impact spreading muc

Corporate Social Responsibility has become an expected part of modern business practice. Yet too often, volunteering risks becoming a symbolic gesture rather than a strategic contribution. A team spends a day painting a fence. A cheque is written. A photograph is taken. But what if we asked a deeper question? What does meaningful volunteering look like in 2026? Moving Beyond the One-Off Communities working to strengthen local food systems do not need sporadic help. They need

We need to talk about this new report from the Economist Impact (note: Funded by Agrichem Giant Cargill). This report is a ranking of 60 Nations according to their Food System Resilience according to the pillars of 1. Affordability, 2. Availability, 3. Quality and Safety, and 4. Climate Risk and Responsiveness, broken down into a range of metrics. Shockingly, the UK is ranked in a high position at 3 rd out of 60 Nations. As a grassroots food practitioner and a food syste

I was at the Oxford Real Farming Conference in January, sitting in a talk ( with Hodmedods , TastEd and Malika Basu )about pulses, school food, and the quiet revolution happening across the country. Someone said, almost in passing, that “food is echoed in fairy tales.” It lodged itself in my brain, I keep coming back to it. Because of course it is. Long before nutritional labels, procurement frameworks, and strategy documents, food lived inside stories. It appeared as breadc