About the Food and Climate Action Project
Based on years of collaborative action in Glasgow and beyond, the Food & Climate Action project aims to work alongside local communities to co-create a more resilient food system that is fairer and kinder to both people and the planet.
Led by Glasgow Community Food Network and funded by the National Lottery, the 5-year project is a partnership between Urban Roots, Glasgow Eco Trust, The Wash House Garden, St Paul’s Youth Forum and Central & West Integration Network. We'd also like to acknowledge The Space who was a host organisation until 2025. We wish them the best of luck in their future work - you can donate to their project The Dream Machine to help keep their good work going.
The project has five key strands of activity including: increasing urban agriculture within the city, engaging and empowering people of all ages through food education, establishing community-led green assemblies, collating all learning in an online food hub (via our Find Local Food Services map and our Resources page) and, previously, supporting action around COP26. The work connects to wider action on climate and food through policy and campaigns activity including the aims of the Glasgow City Food Plan.
For more information about Food & Climate Action, please get in touch at [email protected]
Project Highlights
Take a look at our recent and current key focuses of the project, including updates on the development of the disused Ruchill Golf Course into a market garden (Urban Agriculture) and our professional development programme for workers who run cooking or growing activities (Climate Crumbs).
Urban Agriculture
How we're promoting food production across the city
Movement Building 2025; The Life Cycle of Food
Our 2025-26 campaign exploring climate actions across a full growing season.
Composting for the Future
Our 2024-25 campaign focusing on climate action with composting.
Transformative Evaluation Report
An insight into the impact of the FCA project
Climate Crumbs
Professional development for community practitioners.
What's On
Beginner's Learn to Grow Course: Tuesdays
Have you ever wanted to learn to grow? Join our completely free beginner’s learn to grow course!
West Glasgow: How to Grow 1/6: Planning Your Growing Space
Interested in growing your own food but not sure where to start? This series is for you!
Compost Connections - Alexandra Park Food Forest
Come join us at Alexandra Park Food Forest for Compost Connections, where we'll learn all about hot composting and worms!
Beginner's Learn to Grow Course: Saturdays
Have you ever wanted to learn to grow? Join our completely free beginner’s learn to grow course!
Supper Club - Fortnightly
an intergenerational cooking club - fortnightly
Find Out More
Huge thanks to Northern Star who have been working with us to evaluate our Food and Climate Action project through the ‘Transformative Evaluation’ methodology.
Specifically, this evaluation sought to answer two questions:
- What changes do people and organisations experience as a result of engaging with FCA?
- What elements of FCA’s practice contribute to these changes?
Welcome to the first issue of the Food and Climate Action (FCA) Project West News. The FCA Project works with local communities to promote healthier food options for people and planet.
As always, our Food and Climate Action team have been busy across Glasgow delivering a range of events, walks, workshops and discussions. From facilitating storytelling sessions enabling folk in Blackhill to tell their own food stories to foraging walks and climate conversations our team has worked hard to provide fun, engaging and free events to communities across Glasgow.
The Food and Climate Action team kick-started 2023 with a bang, offering a whirlwind of events from a mini film-festival at host organisation The Space, in collaboration with Take One Action, to soil and composting workshops with our old colleague , Mark Hanlon, as well as a continuation of our community meetings.
In The News
Glasgow schools are serving up new dishes of butterbean macaroni cheese and a bean wrap after a campaign to encourage more eating of the pulses.
Glasgow Community Food Network was established in 2017 to develop a flourishing food system in Glasgow. They want to see a city where high quality, fresh, local, organic produce is available and affordable for all and where good food is a celebrated part of our culture.
Their Food and Climate Action project have launched the results of their Demand for Land campaign: a resouce pack which helps local people and organisations to access underused land in Glasgow. Rounding off a year of activity highlighting the need for more accessible land for growing in Glasgow, their pack includes:
- Route maps for Glasgow organisations and individuals to understand the processes for acquiring land for growing;
- Inspirational media for highlighting the potentials of underused land;
- Results from their Demand for Land Survey;
- Testimonials from real people on the importance of access to land; and
- A toolkit for market gardening.
Prefer listening to yours news? Get an earful of our Food and Climate Action project.
Community groups across Glasgow have kick-started food and climate action projects after splitting a share of a £15,000 funding pot.
Glasgow Community Food Network (GCFN), which was established in 2017, has teamed up with the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund to donate £1500 to 10 groups throughout the city.
The funding comes as part of GCFN’s Demand for Land Campaign, which is focused on growing spaces in Glasgow in response to a surge of interest in community gardening, allotments, and food cultivation.
Another chance to listen on the go... hear us featured on BBC Sounds!
Today on Sunny Govan Community Radio we're chatting to Donna & Rebecca, both community activators with Glasgow Community Food Network on their roles supporting communities who are taking climate action. Tune in to hear about the work they're doing in Govan and beyond 💪🏼🌱
