Wider Alliances

Wider Alliances

Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming

advocates for food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.

The Poverty Alliance

The Poverty Alliance is a network of activists, NGOs, community orgs, unions and academics working together to end poverty in Scotland. The Alliance works to influence policy and practice, support communities to challenge poverty, build the anti poverty movement, change attitudes and provide evidence through research.

End Child Poverty

The End Child Poverty coalition is calling on the Government and all political parties in the UK to set out ambitious and comprehensive plans to end child poverty.

"We know that child poverty responds to policy interventions that increase and make more secure family and household incomes. We would like to see a pledge to end child poverty, with commitments to measure the impact of policies on levels of child poverty."

Scottish Food Coalition

The Scottish Food Coalition aims to transform the food
system in Scotland so that it contributes to everyone’s health and wellbeing, values the work it takes to put food on the plate, supports high animal welfare, and sustains wildlife, natural resources and environment for generations to come.

"We believe in working collaboratively to make a more significant impact on the way we produce, process, and eat food. Ultimately, using different strengths and focuses to work together for food justice."

Disability Benefits Consortium

The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) is a national coalition of over 100 different charities and other organisations committed to working towards a fair social security system. Using our combined knowledge, experience and direct contact with disabled individuals and carers, the DBC seeks to ensure Government policy reflects and meets the needs of all disabled people.

Carer Poverty Coalition

The Carer Poverty Coalition campaign to end poverty amongst carers by advocating for policy change that adequately values, recognises and supports unpaid carers. Aims include to reform the benefits system to better support carers financially in the short and long term, bring in better systems to support carers to continue with paid work, build awareness of carer poverty with Government, parliamentarians, decision makers and the general public.

Fight Inequality Alliance, UK and Europe

The Fight Inequality Alliance is a global movement that has brought together over 300 groups across borders and organisations in the fight for a more equal world. They are a growing collective of UK-based non-profit organisations, civil society organisations, trade unions, social movements, activists and artists who have come together to fight the growing crisis of inequality in the UK and across the planet. They work collaboratively beyond organisations and labels in order to build collective power against global systems of oppression.

Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition

The Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition is an initiative of public interest CSOs and social movements - peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, landless people, consumers, urban people living in poverty, agricultural and food workers, women, youth, and indigenous peoples - that recognize the need to act jointly for the realization of the right to adequate food and nutrition.

Global Solidarity Alliance for Food, Health and Social Justice

This group of non-governmental organizations, national networks, grassroots activists, and scholars began to emerge two years ago out of relationships built at Trans-Atlantic conferences and meetings, resulting in a growing shared analysis of and reaction to the increased use of private philanthropy and transnational corporate food banking as a response to “rich world” hunger and poverty.