Fancy joining the Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory?

Our goal is not only to map and showcase the most socially and environmentally responsible venues throughout the city. We exist to help businesses to improve their practices whether they’re a member or not.

︎GSFD Sustainability Resources (Mar 2025)

We’ve made our resources available for use by all as it’s important that everyone is helped along their journey to becoming more responsible. It’s a non-exhaustive list of our
top resources and sustainable Scottish suppliers & producers. Please let us know if you have any further suggestions!

Apply to the Fourth Edition

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 5PM, 30TH MAY 2025

With funding from Glasgow Centre for Population Health to develop the 4th edition, we’re excited to be refreshing the application form based on feedback from businesses, partners, and also directory members.

There’s a maximum of 40 questions (depending on your venue type) taking no more than 30 minutes to complete.

Restaurants & café’s︎︎︎

Food shops, retailers and bakeries︎︎︎

Benefits of being included

1 Recognition as one of the most sustainable places to eat/shop at in Glasgow

2 Publicity opportunities with the launch of each edition of the directory

3 Become part of the Good Food Movement in Glasgow, benefitting from the partnerships of Glasgow Food Policy Partnership and Slow Food Glasgow.

4 Be able to connect and learn from other businesses in the directory to help continue improving your environmental and social policies

5 Receive invites to sustainable food events and keep up to date with the latest development in Glasgow

6 NEW You’ll also recieve a vinyl window sticker and be featured in an limited edition riso-printed map distributed across the city

In the future, our team hopes to develop the directory further to include a Sustainable Food awards structure and accreditation. It’s a slow process, but watch this space!

The application process

With advice and support from our partners at Dear Green Coffee, Open Seas and Zero Waste Scotland, we’ve honed the marking criteria to be more specific and relevant to the type of business you operate. Applications scoring 75% or above of the maximum points available to their business type are successful.

The questions we ask food outlets and shops covers 4 areas:

the food they sell/serve, including its origin and environmental sustainability
health, relating to the proportions of vegetables served and how processed their food is
wider environment, including food waste and packaging
wider community, covering accessibility, inclusivity, staff training & wellbeing

Still undecided on whether to make an application?

Join us on the 13th May at Civic House for our first sustainability training and networking session! It’ll be an opportunity for members and non-members to hear from some of our expert partners, exchange notes with like-minded businesses and speak to some of our favourite Scottish suppliers.