Sitopia Farm CIC

Sitopia Farm is a not for profit social enterprise. We are a modern, urban farm in Greenwich, SE London. We grow vegetables and flowers using organic, regenerative, and no-dig principles and sell direct to our local community, to chefs, and to florists. Through our farming and events, courses and community volunteering, we reconnect people to the soil, the joy of good food and flowers, and to each other. We live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia. At the moment, we live in a bad Sitopia. Our food system is broken. The world is in the grip of multiple crises: the climate emergency; food poverty; diet-related mental and physical disease; and many of us feel totally disconnected from the natural world. We're on a mission to change this. We have a vision of a world where the food we eat nourishes both people and planet. With thanks to the generosity and vision of our partners and landowners, the Woodlands Farm Trust, we grow on two acres of their wider farm. We are proudly female-led and have an entirely female farm team. Our Advisory Board is also 60% female and 40% BAME and our Directors are 67% female, 33% BAME. This report is the first full annual report for our new financial reporting year, running April-March. During the period April 2025-March 2026, we achieved the following: ● Further enhanced our productivity and sales and wider community reach and engagement, reaching £166k in turnover, the majority of which, £95k, was from produce. ● 6+ tonnes of fresh, nutritious organic vegetables, herbs, and fruit grown ● 20,000+ stems of flowers cultivated ● 250+ different varieties of crops nurtured, and 300+ new trees and hedgerow planted, adding to the biodiversity on site ● Enhanced the reach and customer base for our hyperlocal veg bag and flower subscription distribution scheme, delivering 4388 veg bags (c.20,000 meals) to 137 customers' homes or community pick up points, all within a few miles’ radius of the farm ● 128 new volunteers were welcomed to the farm and 1450+ community volunteering hours facilitated, over the course of 48 weekly sessions on the farm with a diverse range of volunteers (25% BAME, 24% under 30; 10% over 60), creating community and enhancing physical & mental health, new development and healthier food behaviours ●Provided over £2.5k of fresh produce at subsidised rates to low income households and donations to local charities and community groups - one subsidised subscriber recently shared “With the absence of governmental tax breaks for organic producers, pesticide free food is more expensive, not less expensive, as it should be. Your discount makes an enormous difference to us. Organic food has somehow become a luxury item, rather a common right, as it should be. So thank you so much for your hard work and help.” ● Further expanded the reach of our educational visits programme and created a firm footing on which to build and deliver new grant funding awarded at the end of this year to support school growing programmes in 2026/2027 ● Ran 6 day-long food and flower growing courses, training 87 people in organic horticulture and providing 20% places free to those on low incomes (targeted at ethnic minorities under-represented in horticulture). We also trialled 4 new autumn and winter workshops. ● Hosted 13 team days for c. 200 individuals from companies from a broad range of sectors.100% of attendees left having learnt something new about the food system and committed to a personal action to create a better food system; 100% of companies also committed to an organisational action to help create a better Sitopia. Within this we trialled a new winter team day offering with 3 groups. ● Undertook a range of events on the farm to engage our local community and raise awareness of our work including Open Days and participated in Open House London weekend, hosted a Community wassail, Autumn soiree for veg bag/flower customers; florist tour; Family Plant to Plate event together with Woodlands Farm Trust for local families during the summer holidays, to visit both farms and learn about where food comes from. ●Continued to enhance our local and national platform advocating for changes in the food system, including hosting the Soil Association for their Organic September press event and DEFRA’s food strategy division team day; speaking on panels including the British Library Future of Food event and Oxford Real Farming Conference Emergent Generation session, a youth network working to build an agroecological and regenerative food system ●800+ visitors to farm ●Expanded our social media and newsletter followers by over 25%; now reaching 11.5k plus instagram followers. ●Attracted significant local/national media coverage including BBC Radio London, Channel 5 Winter on the Farm, the Financial Times, Borough Market magazine ●Further expanded our team, moving two team members onto permanent contracts, creating new jobs and contributing to the local economy. ●Appointed a freelance fundraising consultant, working part-time to support development and delivery of our eco barn capital fundraising campaign. ●Successfully passed annual Soil Association inspection and organic status renewed ●Some of these activities were supported by a generous grant from the City Bridges Trust, and Davines supported planting of new perennials.