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Better Health Bakery
A social enterprise bakery based in Haggerston, East London. They are part of The Centre for Better Health, a long standing Hackney-based mental health charity. They offer trainee placements in our bakery to adults recovering from mental ill-health.
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Brewdog
A business taking the concept of shareholders to a new level with its 'equity punks', putting collaboration and love of craft beers at the centre of everything they do. A great example of what purpose-led business can do.
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HISBE Food CIC
HISBE Food is a new type of supermarket, built and run on a purpose-led social enterprise business model, for the benefit of local people, local economy and local community.
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The Open Food Network
The Open Food Network (OFN) is a growing network of small to medium and community food enterprises, independent producers, retailers and distributors, dedicated to building a stronger, fairer food system in the UK. We believe that by working together, sharing skills, ideas and resources, we can provide good, nutritious, affordable food to everyone.
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Abundance
Abundance is a network of urban harvesting project which identifies fruit growing that would otherwise go to waste, and redistributes it to charities or community groups that will make good use of it. Through local initiative, it aims to protect nature in urban settings and involves the local schools and communities to get involved. A great way to get people to reconnect with the local land and build a sense of community around it.
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Citizens Assembly
Not food specific, but a great example of citizen engagement and participation. A Citizens’ Assembly is a representative group of citizens who are selected at random from the population to learn about, deliberate upon, and make recommendations in relation to a particular issue or set of issues.
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Divine Chocolate
Set up to challenge the chocolate trade over 20 years ago, it is very much centered around the cooperative of farmers that produce the cocoa in the first place, showing another business model to ensure producers are at the centre of the business. It is 44% owned by farmers, and the success of the brand and its storytelling shows just how much people care about good ethical food systems.
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Good Food Nation Ambassadors
With the Scottish government opening up the question of what a Good Food Nation is and should deliver in Scotland, a coalition of NGOs have called upon Good Food Nation Ambassadors to engage with their local communities, increase awareness and momentum for the consultation, and campaign for a brighter future for Scotland’s food system. A great example of empowering people to voice their values and beliefs to government.
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Cafédirect
Cafédirect was founded in direct response to the coffee crisis of 1989, when prices plummeted and farmers were struggling to break even, let alone make a profit. In 2010, Cafédirect raised the bar even further and created Producers Direct.
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Incredible Edibles Network
"If you eat, you're in" The Incredible Edible movement has been building food communities for decades and is a flagship example of what empowering people through food can do. Started in Todmorden and now across the globe, the movement showcases"lives lived in connected communities, built out of the power of their own will, their own imagination and grown through the power of small actions."
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