Hi. I’m Marta. In the summer of 2015, my husband Mark and I travelled around Poland, visiting some of the country’s most popular destinations, including the pretty towns of Sandomierz and Kazimerz Dolny. After a string of disappointing experiences with food and service at tourist-trap restaurants, I suddenly thought - why can we not just eat with a local family at their home instead? I mean, Poles are great cooks and wonderful hosts, after all. On the way back to Krakow, where we live, I decided to start the ball rolling. I put a short notice in a local travel website, and invited anyone to join us for dinner at our home, each Wednesday. Our family and friends thought we were mad. No-one will come to a stranger’s home for food, they said. Well, since that time, we’ve hosted over 600 people at our home - and every evening has been a wonderful and positive experience.

Along the way, we invited our friend Will to join us and together we started building a platform to connect home cooks and guests around the world. Today, over 500 cooks in 73 cities around the world have opened their doors like we do. We’ve seen the magic that happens when people from completely different backgrounds meet over shared home food, and how it builds our local communities - something so important in our modern world, where no-one seems to have as much time for each other as they used to. We’re now working with huge enthusiasm to spread this idea, and we hope you can join us and bring meal sharing to your own town or city too. Please pull up a chair and join us!

Founders

Marta Bradshaw
Superstar cook. A native of Krakow, Marta graduated with distinction from the Sculpture Department of The Academy of Fine Arts. Marta co-founded Local Life, and from 2008 to 2012 was Publisher of the Krakow Post, the city’s English-language newspaper. A passionate home cook, Marta is the face of Eataway, appearing in press, on TV and at conferences, and still hosting Eataway meals at her home in Krakow each Wednesday.

EC1 Capital is a leading London based web and mobile investment fund. We invest in startups from Seed to Series A rounds

We are looking to partner with ambitious, tenacious and focused tech entrepreneurs who are inventing or disrupting large markets with defensible value propositions.

We have deep connections and presence in the London technology investment and entrepreneur community.

We love to syndicate and build a strong investor base that not only provides capital but also gives access to experience and connections.

We invest for the long haul and have the ability to follow our money.

Each year billions of disposables are thrown away after just one use, many of which end up in landfill. Our vision is to live in a world where waste can be drastically reduced. We offer well designed, reusable and sustainable alternatives to takeout disposables, and believe that through education and by engaging people to make simple changes to the way they interact with food and drink to go packaging, we can dramatically reduce our carbon footprint.

Our Eco to go cups and containers can be used again and again and form part of a sustainable circular economy, where resources are in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value whilst in use, then restored or regenerated at end of life. Cups are 100% natural made from rice husk, with the  look and feel of plastic, can be reused hundreds of times and at end of life will break down in industrial compost in 90 days.

​Introducing HuskeeCup - A cup made from coffee waste - featuring coffee husk as a raw material. Coffee husk is organic waste that's produced at the milling stage of coffee production. By choosing HuskeeCup you are helping to recycle hundreds of tonnes of waste material from the production of coffee.

HuskeeCup is a new additional to Eco to go's reusable sustainable alternatives to single use disposables. Huskee cup is also ideal for coffee shops, available in 3 sizes with a universal saucer.

Choose from our range of coffee husk or rice husk cups, agricultural waste usually burnt or sent to landfill.

Going from raising your first institutional investment round to building a scalable business is hard and risky. We’ve done it ourselves as founders, and we’ve become good at helping other companies make it.

We are a seed stage Venture Capital fund, investing £500k – £2m in early stage software companies in the UK. Our eight strong team is a combination of former entrepreneurs and experienced investors. We have deep connections with Silicon Valley, where several of us have built businesses.

We are passionate about the technologies, the ideas and the business models that are reshaping the world. But most of all, we love the dreamers, the technologists and the creators that are making this happen. We want to share our knowledge with you, and we always roll our sleeves up to support our founders.

This means helping our founders across all areas of early stage company building, from hiring to refining the Go To Market strategy to making crucial introductions. But don’t take it from us, speak to the founders in our portfolio!

OUR MISSION - Together we all need to make a change to help our planet get back to being healthy and sustainable to all species.  There are so many aspects of our everyday life that need to change and Fair-Well has chosen to focus on food waste, household waste and the community.  To do this we need to make plastic free options accessible and convenient. We believe if we live healthy & sustainably, the world will be healthy. 

OUR VALUES - It's sometimes hard to find products that reflect more than one good business practice in one product. We believe in so many things but the products out there only provide us with one or the other, organic but not environmentally friendly, environmentally friendly but not Fair-trade, great product but part of a multinational company, Organic and Fair Trade but in single-use plastic packaging. So we thought, how amazing would it be if we could provide customers with products that had all these great business practices with all their products and have them plastic free?!  Our main objective is to reduce plastic usage in our everyday essential products while giving back to the community.  We home deliver organic and natural products to our customers to make buying plastic free more convenient. 

We hope to start a movement where all households do their best to reduce their plastic use!

Farming has been widely ignored by the tech community - leaving farmers stuck in the last century.FarmBackup is put into the world to change that. We are building a farm management system that is already putting smiles on the faces of farmers all around the world.We are currently focusing on Denmark, the UK, and New Zealand:farmbackup.dkfarmbackup.dk/task (new product)farmbackup.co.ukfarmbackup.co.nz

Our story began in London in 2015: Steven, our founder, wanted to solve a simple problem: to provide anyone with fresh, plant-based, reasonably-priced food available any time.

He first tested the idea in his own house, converting it into a pop-up restaurant for his friends for one night only. With an astonishing 97% thumbs up, Farmstand launched the next year, setting up its first central kitchen in Deptford and a physical showroom restaurant in Covent Garden.

From that moment on, we have sold nearly 1m meals by partnering with offices, canteens, and local food markets. We've even appeared in the New York Times!

We're making our part to reverse climate change and drawdown greenhouse gas from the air we breathe, by eliminating physical stores and by delivering your food in bulk with a recurring subscription. 

And the single biggest thing you can do? Eat more plants.

So, our mission? Help feed the world more healthy and planet-conscious food.

Founded in 2013, we are best known for work on food waste. Our campaign style is unique: over the years we have successfully combined hard-hitting investigative research, mass public participation feasts, ‘Feeding the 5000’ events and on the ground pilots for a better food system. As a result, we’ve put the issue of food waste at the very top of the business and policy agendas. Read more about our impact.

A MORE SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM?

Food waste is one symptom of a dysfunctional food system. With the arrival of a new Executive Director, Carina Millstone, we conducted a strategic review in 2017 to understand the changes required for a waste-free food system. Read about our model for a sustainable food system.

This has led us to expand our areas of work to include issues beyond food waste, including industrial meat, farmed fish, British sugar and ‘green’ energy generated through Anaerobic Digestion of edible food.

We also work on campaigns around food citizenship, food commons and new food economies, piloting alternatives to the globalised, financialised food system. Find out more about our programmes of work.

HOW WE WORK

To move towards a food system that nourishes both people and our planet will require significant changes to our food culture, the food economy and its governance. We are seeking to bring about these changes through a unique combination of campaigning and advocacy, citizen engagement and pilot programmes.

We expose systemic problems that have led to unsustainable use of resources within the food system. We act as a critical friend to industry and policy makers or, when more appropriate, we launch creative campaigns to achieve the changes that we seek (for example our campaigns Total Bull and our supermarket food waste scorecard).

We build coalitions with other civil society groups, mobilising activists around our agenda. Free public feasts are a key way in which we support the growth of diverse movements of citizens on food issues. We also use volunteering as a further opportunity for the public to ‘be the change’ and have a comprehensive youth engagement and food system education programme. We are proud of our ability to reach people from all walks of life, including those for whom engagement with our work is their first foray into environmental and food system activism, for example through our Gleaning Network.

When solutions cannot be achieved with changes to current organisations, models and practices, we roll up our sleeves and pilot alternatives – be it through gleaning or anchoring new community food economies. Through these pilots, we demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of a new food economy, and enable replication of our success around the globe through training, toolkits and engaging with citizens, civil society allies and change makers far and wide.
 

As a trusted partner of industry for over 100 years we are committed to protecting the environment through partnerships and original thinking that address and respond to the challenges ahead. We have brought a wide range of disciplines together in the fields of food, environmental safety and agri-tech including plant, animal and bee health, wildlife and food safety and authenticity that supports the agri-food chain and ultimately protects the consumer.

Situated within the National Agri-Food Innovation Campus our state-of-the-art facilities provide us with the tools to complete complex analysis activities across all of our business areas. We turn expertise and innovation into ways to support and develop a sustainable food chain, a healthy natural environment, and to protect the global community from biological and chemical risks.

We collaborate with a range of partners in the scientific, government and marketing sector to address the global challenges faced today in protecting and supporting the environment. By working closely together we can keep on creating new innovative products and solutions for the agri-food industry and make the world a better, healthier and safer place.

With over 100 procedures accredited to ISO 17025 we view all aspects of quality as critical to achieving our vision as being recognised as a worldwide centre-of-excellence and partner of choice. This is why we invest time and resources in achieving and retaining Accreditation and Certification against all relevant International Quality Standards.
 
 
 

Established in 2017, the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) is a community of organisations and individuals committed to the urgent need to transform the way we produce and consume food and use our land for people, nature and climate. We support science-based solutions and help build a shared understanding of the challenges and opportunities to unlock collective, ambitious action. We build on the work of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use and Energy (FABLE) Consortium teams which operate in more than 20 countries.

Our strength comes from a growing community of country platforms, core partners, FOLU Ambassadors, funders, connecting those who share our mission: to ensure food and land use systems play their full role in delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement to ensure the future prosperity of all people and to protect and restore our planet’s vital ecosystems.

Food and land use systems involve every factor in the ways land is used and food is produced, stored, packed, processed, traded, distributed, marketed, consumed and disposed of. We bring together the public and private sectors, the research community and civil society, to harness expertise and enable systems thinking approaches. We are committed to the urgent need for food and land use transformation to create a healthier planet and healthier people. Get involved today if you have something to bring to the table.

Food & Water Watch mobilizes regular people to build political power to move bold & uncompromised solutions to the most pressing food, water, and climate problems of our time. We work to protect people’s health, communities, and democracy from the growing destructive power of the most powerful economic interests.

Our Mission - Our food, water and climate are under constant assault by corporations who put profit over the survival of humanity. They have seized control of the very institutions that were built to protect us. We mobilize people to reclaim their political power, hold our elected officials accountable, and resist corporate control—ensuring we all have the essential resources we need to thrive. This is a fight we must win, because this planet is the only one we get.

Our Vision - We are working to create a healthy future for all people and generations to come—a world where everyone has food they can trust, clean drinking water and a livable climate. Making this happen requires involving people in the pressing issues of our time at the local, state, and federal level, building on one win after another, as we develop a larger movement that has the political power to make our democratic process work.

The Food Authenticity Network is a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) initiative to help bring together those involved in food authenticity testing.  

The network aims to raise awareness of the tools available to check for mislabelling and food fraud and to ensure that the UK has access to a resilient network of laboratories providing fit for purpose testing to check for food authenticity so consumers can have confidence in the food they buy.

The Government committed to setting up a Network in response to Recommendation 4 of the Elliott Review into the Integrity and Assurance of Food Supply[1]  which highlighted the need for standardised testing approaches. The creation of the Network will help bring together the UK’s expertise in a range of food authenticity testing techniques and ensure better collaboration and data sharing between all those with an interest.

The virtual network will be a one-stop-shop for anyone involved in food authenticity testing but will also be of interest to the food industry, government, academia, enforcers and consumers alike. With all the relevant material together in one place it will be much easier to access and disseminate information on methods and new techniques to the authenticity community while also helping facilitate communication and understanding between those working in the area.   

The project will be overseen by Selvarani Elahi, the Deputy Government Chemist at LGC, while the day to day practical aspects of coordinating the Network will be done by Dr Mark Woolfe an experienced leader in the food authenticity area.

To ensure independence the work of the network will be overseen by a management committee, consisting of key stakeholders which will report to, and be guided by, the Government’s Authenticity Steering Group.

Food Choice at Work is a spin-out company from University College Cork, Ireland that has developed a Leading Edge Healthy Eating Management System for employees. Resting on over 6 years of scientific research led by Dr Fiona Geaney and Professor Ivan Perry, our employee centric methods have been proven to improve employees’ diet and health and reduce obesity and absenteeism levels. We are informed by the World Health Organisation’s Global Action Plan for the prevention of diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancers and diabetes. Our scientific background sets us apart from conventional workplace health programmes that provide low intensity nutrition advice to employees and do not support the caterer or workplace.

Food Choice at Work deals directly with caterers, workplace stakeholders and employees to make fundamental positive changes in food purchasing, preparation and presentation. Our data-driven programme is tailored to the culture and climate of each individual workplace. For more information on our evidence based packages, have a look at our What We Do section. Meet Our Team who include leading experts and thought leaders in public health, nutrition and dietetics. Read Our Scientific Articles where we ensure that our programme remains at the forefront of scientific research. We passionately believe that every workplace should be a healthy workplace so Contact Us for help in deciding which package is right for your workplace!

Food Citizenship is a movement of individuals and organisations across the food system. It is rooted in an increasingly widely shared belief that people can and want to shape the food system for the better, given the right conditions.

The Food Citizenship movement builds from the New Citizenship Project’s Food Citizenship report, and public research gathered by the Food Ethics Council between January 2018 and January 2020.

Our most recent report ‘Harnessing the power of Food Citizenship’ was published on October 2nd, 2019. It aims to highlight the window of opportunity that is currently opening across the sector for food citizenship to take root.

Using  examples, case studies and conversations with food citizenship pioneers across the UK food and farming systems, our report invites us to reflect on how we nurture ourselves as food citizens and how we can engage with others within our organisations and beyond.