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Inside Future Food Movement: Your July Update
July 2026
Inside Future Food Movement: Your July Update
This month: convergence, resilience and the signals shaping what food leaders do next.
Something is shifting. Climate, health, sourcing, policy, consumer demand: issues that used to sit in separate meetings are now landing on the same desk, yours.
Appetite is changing, resilience is climbing the agenda, policy is getting louder. The businesses making sense of it fastest are pulling ahead.
This month, we're helping you read the signals: what's moving, what matters, where to focus next.
Kate
This month's thinking
July 2026
Direct from the Network - your insider intelligence
Inside this issue: 8 strategic signals reshaping commercial decisions and 6 questions every leadership team should be asking now.
Estimated reading time: 10-12 minutes
Get this month's strategic signal readoutThe conversations are converging. Is your organisation?
Kate's latest Field Notes on what once sat in separate workstreams, health, sustainability, resilience, commercial growth, is increasingly landing as one leadership challenge. It closes with a question worth putting to your own exec team before your next strategy session: who actually owns health in your business?
Read Kate's latest Field NotesThe board pack nobody's building yet
Read Helen's latest articleFarmer-Led Working Group comment on the 2050 Farming Roadmap
Read the commentLondon Climate Action Week 2026: through our eyes
Read the articleThe real risk from Groundswell 2026 isn't the one everyone's talking about
Groundswell through our eyesWhat's coming up
Learn with us: Food Systems Essentials Accelerator
September cohort open
The job you're doing today won't look the same in two years. Build the judgement, language and system view to get ahead of that. Spaces are £675 per person (ex VAT).
See if the Accelerator is right for you or your teamSee the months ahead at a glance
Your H2 2026 member calendar is live. Every session, briefing and touchpoint for the rest of the year, in one place.
Bookmark the H2 2026 membership calendarSeptember Expert Event: When Appetite Changes: How Food Brands Grow in a Market Being Rewritten
Thursday 10th September · 10-11am · Online
As GLP-1, reformulation pressure and changing consumer expectations reshape the market, we look at how marketing, NPD and innovation strategies can be proactive as well as respond with confidence and grow share.
Join via Teams link on the dayFarmer-Led Working Group - with Business Members
Tuesday 15th September · 10-11am · Gold and Platinum members
Hear an honest, practical picture of the realities shaping supply, delivery and decision-making.
Join the session on the dayMeet the network drinks
Wednesday 16th September · 5.30-8pm · Lucky Saint Pub, London · All members
Join members for an evening of relaxed drinks and good conversation.
Join the waiting listStay informed: Signals Intelligence Briefing
Wednesday 23rd September · 10-11am · Platinum members
Decode the market, consumer, policy and supply chain signals shaping the quarter ahead with founder Kate Cawley.
Join the briefing on the dayHave your say: Contribute to the Good Food Bill
Want policymakers to understand what you're actually dealing with? Here's your chance to make sure they do.
Complete the surveyLearn with us: Thinking Partner Network
Designed for sustainability leaders, it offers a trusted peer space to sharpen judgement, strengthen influence and navigate competing pressures more effectively.
Apply for the next cohortOr forward this to the person leading sustainability in your organisation.
Want the full picture? Every session between now and November, with dates and access levels, is on our events page, so you can plan.
Meet the network
Case study: How The Compleat Food Group brings climate risk into the heart of decision-making
See how they did it
Only 4% of UK adults hit their daily fibre target, and nobody's fixing that by reading a label at 6pm on a Tuesday.
Mark Evan's case for solving it
We took a wicked problem our members are facing, closing the scope 3 accountability gap, and interviewed Helen Ireland (Future Food Movement) and Stephanie Lambert (Foodsteps).
Read how the data layer and the decision-making layer close the gap
Susan Thomas, one of our expert coaches, reflects on the risk of "we'll be fine" thinking at a time when many organisations are underestimating how quickly change is compounding.
Learn from Susan
Tim Parton's book signing at Groundswell, Emma Victor-Smith reviews Intelligent Farming and what it means for businesses backing the regenerative transition.
Read Emma's review of Intelligent FarmingMembers in the Spotlight
It's been a busy month across the network: award wins, new product launches, new programmes and a few sobering reminders of just how much resilience this work still demands.
Be inspired by Quorn, Arla, ShareAction, Waitrose, The Compleat Food Group, AHDB, Warburtons, Tesco, SDG2 Advocacy Hub, Brakes (Sysco), ABP Food Group, Mallika Basu, The Food People and Cool Farm.
What did you missGet practical: Technical Deep-Dive Clinic: Health
Silver, Gold and Platinum members
What's stalling progress on health inside food businesses?
Use the takeaways to sharpen your health strategyUnderstand how power is shaping change: July Expert Event
How are influence, accountability and leadership interacting across food? Find out from Hannah Brinsden (The Food Foundation), Catherine Howarth OBE and Polly Mackenzie (Zinc Innovation Partners).
Use the takeaways with your teams or watch the sessionGet strategic: London Climate Action Week: Future-Proofing Food Infrastructure
In partnership with Mitie and Climate X
Climate risk is becoming harder to ignore in estates, assets, operations and long-term business continuity.
Use the briefing to inform your resilience planningUnderstand what farms are facing: Farmer-Led Working Group
In partnership with Regenagri and Cool Farm
Find out what's being felt on farm right now.
Understand what this means for your sourcing decisionsWhat's caught your attention this month
Here are the five stories most popular with members:
- Evidence is key to unlocking value in regenerative agriculture
- Half of British farmers are now farming regeneratively, Barclays says
- Calls are growing for a UK food security and resilience law
- Ecosystem collapse is being framed as a national food security threat
- Consumer pressure is still reshaping commercial decisions
Every signal we track lives in our Weekly Food Industry Edit, your weekly scan of the regulatory, supply chain and market shifts shaping the sector.
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From Direct From The Network intelligence, Founder Field Notes, Strategic Signals briefings, Expert events, Technical deep-dives, Leadership briefings and Cross-sector connections, everything is designed around one objective: helping you make better decisions, faster, by understanding where the food system is heading before it becomes obvious.
Thank you for being part of the movement. See you soon,
Kate and the Future Food Movement team