At the moment, there are only three places in the whole of the UK that are Gold Sustainable Food Places – by the end of this year, Cardiff is aiming to join that group!

The award will recognise all the work happening across the city towards the Cardiff Good Food Goals. Food Cardiff is co-ordinating the bid, but the award is for Cardiff as a city, so all good food activity can be included (even if Food Cardiff hasn’t been involved).

This is your opportunity to showcase and be recognised for your food, cooking or growing activities – or for the work you’ve done for one of the Good Food Cardiff pledges.

If we are successful with the award we will also provide you with a communications pack so that you can help us celebrate our collective achievements.

Businesses, organisations and community groups are all encouraged to take part.

Please complete this online form to tell us about your Good Food success stories.

If you have any questions please contact Pearl at foodsensewales@wales.nhs.uk

Here’s some example submissions:

Edible Cardiff

Edible Cardiff is a vibrant grassroots network of 188 growers from 113 growing groups – local people, groups and organisations growing their own produce. Since January 2021, the network has held over 120 events, distributed over 5000 plug plants, 1500 home growing kits and small grants for groups to help over 2000 people growing.

Cardiff Council Hubs and Advice

Cardiff Council ran two Healthy Cooking Challenges in 2021 where 100 families were challenged to create a week’s supply of delicious family meals by following the online video tutorials or easy-to-follow, budget-friendly recipe cards, whilst being provided with all the ingredients and equipment.

Secret Garden Cafe

Around 80% of the ingredients used by the Secret Garden Cafe are organic/support nature friendly farming. This is extremely important in helping to mitigate the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis as well as offering a higher quality and more nutrient rich food, supporting healthy soils. 

Orchard Cardiff

In 2022 during 20 harvests we saved over 60 crates of fruit, mostly apples and pears, which we share with community food projects, such as Oasis, Trinity Refugee Centre and Splott Community Volunteers. We also bring communities together through workshops where we create space for skill-sharing in juicing and cooking with surplus fruit.