Useful Contacts
General advice for campaigning against supermarket developments

Corporate Watch
16b Cherwell Street,Oxford OX4 1BG, UK Tel 01865 791 391 email: mail@corporatewatch.org www.corporatewatch.org.uk
Corporate Watch is a research and publications group, which aims to expose corporate corruption. It produces briefings and profiles of corporations including the major food processors and retailers, publishes a bi-monthly newsletter and fortnightly email news updates. It also acts as an information service to support, strengthen and initiate grassroots campaigns against corporations. The UK food industry is currently a major focus for research.

Council for British Archaeology
Bowes Morrell House, 111 Walmgate, York, Y01 9WA. Tel: 01904 671417 email: Info@britarch.ac.uk www.britarch.ac.uk
National pressure and campaign group working with all aspects of archaeology and cultural heritage. Will offer advice.

Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE)
Warwick House, 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W OPP. Tel: 0207 976 6433. Fax: 0207 976 6373. www.cpre.org.uk
A national charity that helps people to protect their local countryside where there is threat, to enhance where there is opportunity, and to keep it beautiful, productive and enjoyable for everyone.
There are 43 local groups and at any one time several local groups are likely to be involved in campaigning against new supermarket developments. Contact CPRE to find out your nearest group. They produce a number of guides to help fight supermarket development, see page 11

Earth First! Action Update
Tel: 0161 226 6814 email: mail@actionupdate.org.uk www.actionupdate.org.uk
Publishes the monthly update of nonviolent direct action and contacts list of Earth First! local groups. Useful if your campaign is considering nonviolent direct action.

English Heritage
23 Saville Row, London, W1S 2ET. Tel: 0207 973 3000. Fax: 0207 973 3430. www.english-heritage.org.uk
A Government organisation that will advise on archaeological and cultural heritage features.

The Land Is Ours (TLIO)
16b Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BN. tel: 01460 249 204 email: office@tlio.demon.co.uk www.tlio.org.uk
A landrights movement for Britain, campaigning for access to the land, its resources and the decision making processes affecting them. Amongst its aims are derelict urban land to be used to meet basic social needs affordable homes and free recreation, ahead of destructive luxuries like superstores and exclusive housing). It also campaigns for sustainable agriculture, protection and reclamation of common space, and the reform of planning and public inquires.
The planning office of TLIO, Chapter 7, campaigns for a planning system that actively encourages sustainable, low impact and affordable homes. Chapter 7 can be contacted at The Potato Store, Flax Drayton Farm, South Petherton, Somerset TA13. Tel: 01460 249204 Email Chapter7@tlio.demon.co.uk

Open Spaces Society
25a Bell St, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 2BA. Tel: 01491 573535. www.oss.org.uk
Can advise on commons and open spaces under threat.

TDOGS
Opposition to Destruction of Open Green Spaces c/o John Beasley, 6 Everthorpe Rd, London, SE15 4DA. tel: 0208 693 9412.
OTDOGS specialises in fighting supermarket applications in sensitive areas. They have attended Tesco and Sainsbury's AGMs to ask questions about their practices. They have published a useful guide to fighting supermarket development "Save Green Spaces from Destruction by food giants: a practical guide to local action." John can give advice over the telephone and in writing. John would also be interested to hear from people who suspect that money has been paid to encourage planning permission to be granted.

Rescue: British Archaeological Trust
15a Bull Plain, Hertford, Hertfordshire, G14 1DX. Tel: 01992 553377.
An independent charity promoting archaeological interests in Britain which seeks to maintain the position of archaeology as a vital part of our nations cultural life

SUSTAIN
94 White Lion Street, London, N1 9PF Tel: 0207 837 1228 Fax: 0207 837 1141 www.sustainweb.org
A coalition of farming, organic sector, environmental and conservation, development, animal welfare and consumer organisations working together to research and promote sustainable agriculture. For details of useful publications see page 11.

The Wildlife Trusts
The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Road, Newark, NG24 1WT. Tel: 01636 677 711. Fax: 01636 670001 www.wildlifetrusts.org
A network of charitable trusts working to conserve local wildlife and wild places. Phone the national office for details of your local Wildlife Trust for help and advice on how to protect local wildlife.

Further information on supermarkets and the alternatives:

Christian Aid
PO Box 100, London, SE1 7RT. Tel: 0207 523 2418. www.christianaid.org.uk
Ran a successful campaign for Fair Trade and supermarket responsibility towards third world workers www.christian-aid. org.uk/campaign/ supermar/supermar. htm#involved
Has produced a number of briefings on fair trade:
Taking stock: How the supermarkets stack up on ethical trading February 1999. See: www.christianaid.org.uk/indepth/9902stoc/stock1.htm
Trade for Life - Making trade work for poor people November 2001. See: www.christianaid.org.uk/indepth/0111trbk/t4life.htm
The Ethical Trading Initiative www.christian-aid.org.uk/campaign/supermar/eti.htm

Foundation for Local Food Initiatives (f3)
PO Box 1234, Bristol, BS99 2PG Tel: 0845 458 9525 email mail@localfood.org.uk www.localfood.org.uk
f3 is a not for profit organisation providing consultancy services to the local food sector. FLAIR - the Food and Local Agriculture Information Resource is a partnership project led by f3, which is analysing the scale, scope and benefits of the local food sector in the UK, helping to create a national database, and to enable the development of a national food links network.

Grassroots Action on Food and Farming (GAFF)
16b Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BN Tel: 01865 793910 email: gaff@corporatewatch.org www.gaff.org.uk
GAFF is a new organisation helping to build a grassroots network of farmers, farmers groups, environmentalists and the public, to oppose the increasing corporate control of the food system and the demise of the small and family farm in the UK. GAFF aims to raise awareness about the negative impact of large scale, corporate food production and of the power imbalances in the food chain, whilst also gaining public support for small scale, localised food production.

New Economics Foundation
6-8 Cole Street, London, SE1 4YH Tel: 020 7089 2800 www.neweconomics.org
Plugging the leaks project -in modern economies money often flows much too quickly out of local economies - just like a leaky bucket. NEF aims to help communities across the UK to plug the leaks and keep money within the local economy.

Women's Environmental Network (WEN).
PO Box 30626, London, E1 1TZ. Tel: 0207 481 9004. Fax: 0207 481 9144 email: info@wen.org.uk www.wen.org.uk
Campaigns on food issues, is currently running a 'Taste of a Better Future' campaign, a network of organic food growing groups for ethnic minority women, developing growing and composting skills.