Cambridge Achieves Silver Award

Cambridge Sustainable Food is proud to announce that the city of Cambridge has received a Sustainable Food Places Silver Award. This award recognises and celebrates the success of places achieving significant food system change. Cambridge is one of only five other UK cities to have achieved this prestigious standard demonstrating the city's dedication in tackling issues such as climate change, food justice and diet-related ill health.

Sustainable Food Places is a partnership programme led by the Soil Association, Food Matters and Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming. Since achieving a Bronze Award in 2016, Cambridge Sustainable Food Partnership, along with many organisations, businesses and community members have been working hard towards silver.

This award is a testament to the hard work of Cambridge Sustainable Food and the wider city. Congratulations all!

The Silver award recognises the City’s commitment to positive change across six key objectives. In order to achieve this standard, Cambridge has demonstrated significant progress across all of these.

Explore the full scope of the city-wide work that led to Cambridge being awarded the silver standard:

Issue 1: Taking a Strategic and collaborative approach to good food governance and action
Issue 2: Building public awareness, active food citizenship and a local good food movement
Issue 3: Tackling food poverty, diet related ill-health and access to affordable healthy food
Issue 4: Creating a vibrant, prosperous and diverse sustainable food economy.
Issue 5: Transforming catering and procurement and revitalizing local and sustainable food supply chains