Members in the Spotlight- September
September, 2026
It has been a busy summer for our members across the network.The Compleat Food Group published its ESG Report 2025/26, the third we have worked on with them since their inaugural report, covering resilience, health and the continued integration of sustainability into core business strategy. PepsiCo released its ESG Summary 2025, and Hilton Foods published a blog on ESG metrics and data that is worth your time if you are wrestling with what to measure and how to make the numbers usable. Across all three, the same shift is visible. A report that once catalogued what had been measured is increasingly expected to explain how decisions get made, and good reporting now has to make genuinely complex material accessible to audiences well beyond the sustainability team.
Image credit: Phoebe Davies, Culture Roots Collective
We are also pleased to introduce Culture Roots Collective, a hub building inclusion, representation and opportunity across the sustainable food and farming sector. Through its platform, events, networks and partnerships, the Collective connects individuals and organisations with lived experience, talent and practical resources, and for Global Majority individuals it offers a route into opportunities, connections and the systems that shape our future food landscape. Working with them means more than access to a network. It is a chance to engage with underrepresented voices, strengthen inclusive leadership and understand why justice and diversity belong at the centre of a fairer food system. The Collective is collaborating with the NFU and the British Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society on AgriFuture Forum 2026, in London on Thursday 22 October, bringing together people from agriculture, veterinary practice, food and environmental sectors to share lived experience, academic insight and practical ideas for building more inclusive industries. They would like to hear from members interested in partnership projects, funded initiatives, knowledge-sharing, research, or simply joining them on the day.
Elsewhere, Chris Manley has launched Agri-AI alongside Scott Quilter of Techosaurus and Amy Hughes of EmpowerAg, offering practical AI skills and support to farming, food and supply chain businesses. The focus is on the admin that eats the week: reporting, coordination and the data businesses already collect but rarely use. It is early by design, with an interest list open to shape the first sessions around real demand.
The Food Foundation published its Food Prices Tracker for August 2026, and we have now opened the second phase of our joint consultation with them on the Good Food Bill. The headline findings from the first round sit alongside the new survey, Industry Views on Regulation for Healthy and Sustainable Diets, and the more perspectives we gather from across the sector, the more useful the research becomes.
Got news of your own to share next month? Get in touch with the Future Food Movement team, we'd love to feature it.This