Sign up to the campaign and encourage others to also.

Hold a meeting with a speaker on food justice.

Use our petition, either at Labour Party meetings when discussing our template motion, on a streetstall, or take it along to any community meetings that you attend.

Food Justice Campaign generic petition

Scottish Co-operative Party petition

Table our Food Justice motion for branch and CLPs at your local Labour Party branch (or GC/AMM). Take along a copy of our petition along with you.

Also, do raise the issue of food poverty and encourage the local Labour Party unit to put in a submission to Labour’s National Policy Forum consultation on sustainable food policy. We will be supplying some points that branches may wish to include.

Community Food Mapping involves finding out where people can buy, grow, and eat food in an area. It’s really very simple and can be done by one or more volunteers in an area. The information collected can be displayed on a physical map, or on an online map.

Food Mapping is a great first step, establishing the extent of the problem in a local area. It’s a fun thing to do, and has led to the emergence of numerous community responses to food poverty and food deserts. It might be something that you can carry out with local councillors, candidates, or a community group.

It also provides an evidence base for lobbying statutory agencies as you will be able to demonstrate very easily the problem in your community or ward. It’s also something which the local press should be extremely interested in once the results are collated.

There is an incredible amount of great work already being done to tackle food poverty. Some of this involves Co-operative Party members and Labour and Co-operative councillors and we are asking you to let us know about it, so that we can help promote awareness of it. In many cases you will be aware of community-led organisations working in your patch, and we would very much like to hear from you about what they are doing.

The aim here is to publicise the amazing work that is going on, and at the same time raise awareness of the extent of food poverty and food insecurity.

Talk to and visit one of the many organisations which are delivering food justice and see what practical support you can offer. It will vary from organisation to organisation and area to area.

You might end up spending a few hours encouraging donations to the local food bank, it might be helping to raise awareness about the project locally, it might be helping to recruit volunteers, or even fundraising. Reach out and see what practical help you can offer.