Glasgow Food Policy Partnership

On Tuesday we were delighted to officially launch our Summer Bucket List and Events list, at our Going for Gold campaign launch which took place in the City Chambers. We were joined by P3 pupils from Sacred Heart Primary School, who shared with us their favourite food-related activities!

The Summer Bucket List is a list of activities for families and individuals to take part in over the summer holidays. We have compiled a list of resources and links to help you complete the activities. If you complete any of them, let us know by posting a photo and tagging your picture/s and some text on social media using

https://goodfoodforall.co.uk/projects/glasgow-going-for-gold/bucket-list-for-the-summer

The Events list is a list of food-related summer activities that are largely free and open to the public.

https://goodfoodforall.co.uk/projects/glasgow-going-for-gold/events-calendar

Thanks to the teachers and pupils at Sacred Heart Primary School, Cllr Elaine McSporran, the Comms team at Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Glasgow City Council for hosting us, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, The Scottish Pantry Network, Soil Association Scotland Food for Life, Jill Muirie from the Glasgow Food Policy Partnership, and McLays wholesalers for their stalls and engaging activities.

Dig In Community Food Market in Govan is hiring!

With the threat of a late frost finally behind us, June is a month where everything is buzzing with life! Lots of varieties of vegetable can be sown right now. Just watch out for weeds taking over, and slugs attacking those new leaves.

For those keen to start growing, or already with green fingers, check out our suggestions of 'What to Grow This Month'.

Last week the GFPP team visited Sacred Heart Primary School in Bridgeton to talk to pupils about the Going for Gold campaign! The children made food faces with fruit and vegetables, and even tried some foods they hadn't tried before.

The P3s also came up with some fantastic activities for our ‘Fun food-filled summer activities’ bucket list! This will be a list of fun food-related activities for families and individuals, to take part in, over the summer holidays. It will be up on our website soon, and available as a handout at our upcoming launch event on 16th June.

Thanks to Sacred Heart Primary School for having us.

Do you have a food-related event you wish to promote this summer? It could be a school fayre with a growing focus, or a community market, open day, meal, street party or anything else promoting good food in the city! Let us know on this form and we will promote it as part of our campaign. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MO7nVXFmC8DqlupIu6B9gLGnMT_gFaD7Xo047hMvqE4/edit

The first event for our Going for Gold campaign is our Going for Gold Campaign Launch. This will host various food-based organisations who will be promoting various fun family activities you can take part in over the summer. We will eventually compile all these activities into a Bucket List Of ‘Fun Food Filled Activities For The Summer' for children and families to enjoy together. Come and find out about activities available over the summer holidays and how you can get involved!



Everyone is welcome, but spaces are limited, so booking is required. Follow this link https://lnkd.in/ec2RBEYy

Big Announcement! We are pleased to announce that GFPP have been invited to apply for a Sustainable Food Places Gold Award, to reflect all the amazing work that has gone on in Glasgow over the past 5 years and more.

So, today we are launching Glasgow Going for Gold - the campaign to support Glasgow’s bid for a Gold Award. This is not an award for any one organisation - but an award for everyone in Glasgow who eats, grows, and works towards a better food system.

A big focus will be on children, young people and families, and how they can get involved. We hope you will support our campaign, and over the next few weeks we will be sharing ways that you can get involved.

In honour of World Therapeutic Horticulture Day, which was yesterday, 18th May, we are sharing a podcast episode with Fiona Thackeray, the CEO of Trellis Scotland and founder of World Therapeutic Horticulture Day.

Enjoy!

Episode 48 – A Conversation with Fiona Thackeray | Soil to Supper Episode 48 – A Conversation with Fiona Thackeray May 13, 2025 | Podcast, Therapeutic Gardening & Wellbeing Welcome to The Wellbeing Garden. In this episode I’m joined by Fiona Thackeray for a wonderful conversation in The Wellbeing Garden. Fiona is the CEO of Trellis Scotland and founder of Worl...

Competition open to all Secondary School Pupils in Glasgow! Please circulate widely. You can also follow the link to enter here. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0XjvvJiV_lPXHYXeHmnp4SnBI5a9d_7ISwEl4Zyjj3jdXrA/viewform

If you support more community growing spaces in the city, or disusued public spaces being brought back into community benefit, you might want to take a look at this survey and support this new community venture.

Thornwood Community Green Glasgow Eco Trust have been working in partnership with Love Thornwood and others to find out if the local community want to see the Thornwood Primary blaes pitches improved.