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Soil Association Impact Report 2024–2025

The Soil Association's Impact Report 2024-25 opens with a foreword from its chief executive and records a demanding year for the food and nature charity across farms, schools, communities and businesses. Highlights include Food for Life, whose Served Here accreditation now reaches meals served daily across 6,723 UK schools and early years settings, the Fruit and Veg petition signed by 19,000 people, farmer programmes (the Future Farm Resilience Programme engaged 400 farmers, with 75% making changes), work with 1,356 farmers through its Sustainable Food Places and farming networks, 117 Sustainable Food Places partnerships spanning a population of over 24 million people, the 'Killing our Rivers' campaign, and the High Court ruling on chicken manure pollution.

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The Soil Association is the UK's food and nature charity, working for almost 80 years for healthy, humane and sustainable food, farming and land use through campaigning, certification (Soil Association Certification) and programmes such as Food for Life.

Key Metrics

6,723 schools and early years settings serving Food for Life accredited meals
19,000 signatures on the Fruit and Veg petition
117 Sustainable Food Places partnerships, covering a population of 24 million+

Key Outcomes

  • Future Farm Resilience Programme engaged 400 farmers, 75% changed practices
  • Organic included in the 2026 Sustainable Farming Scheme
  • High Court ruling secured on chicken manure pollution in the 'Killing our Rivers' campaign

Geography

UK-Wide

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