The Food Foundation Podcast

Leticija Petrovic, the local food policy lead at the Food Foundation revisits a subject we covered a few months ago in our series of Pod Bites, how place-based, community-led food initiatives can help people access affordable, healthy and sustainable food. She looks more deeply into just three of the 10 models in this collaborative study by the University of Leeds and the Food Foundation, using th...

Bee Wilson , author of ground-breaking books First Bite, The Way We Eat Now and most recently, The Secret of Cooking on TastEd , the food charity which shows how teaching kids to taste in school can lead to them learning to eat more healthily. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here for the Food Foundation Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul McDonald,Chief Campaigns Officer of Health Equals on this summer's Make Health Equal campaign. Where you're born in the UK can cut your life short by up to 16 years because of factors from income to housing, air quality, access to healthy food and community connections. The Make Health Equal campaign demonstrated that change is possible for the next generation, and Paul explains how it worked...

Rebecca Tobi, senior business and investor engagement manager at the Food Foundation on a new piece of research exploring plant based alternatives to meat.  In a report called Rethinking Plant-based Meat Alternatives, the Food Foundation creates a taxonomy of the best plant-based options for meeting health, environmental and affordability objectives. Click here for the report, here for the Fo...

Fayeth Jones, one of the original Food Foundation Young Food Ambassadors on this year's Residential or 'Resi' in York. The Young Food Ambassadors are a diverse group of more than 40 activists from around the UK, many of whom have lived experience of food insecurity. As part of the Food Ambassador volunteer programme, they go to events, meet up with policy makers and do media interviews to cam...

Michelle Patel , Deputy Director of Analysis at the Food Standards Agency The Food Standard Agency is the Government department that regulates for food safety and looks out for consumers in the food system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Michelle explains what it knows about people's concerns about food prices and food affordability, both for those in household food insecurity and for peop...

Dan Parker, CEO of Veg Power on how to encourage more kids to eat school meals. As part of Veg Power's annual survey of 3000 parents of primary school aged children and their children, Dan's team asked what's going on at home that's driving decisions about the take up of school meals. And they found that at any given lunch time, 25 to 30% of the children who are entitled to a free school meal, cho...

This week, Myles Bremner, Chief Executive of Bremner and Co talks about the Food Standard Agency's recent report on a pilot scheme to monitor school food standards compliance.  Click here for more information, here for the Food Foundation manifesto and here for the FF Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Pod Bite, Dr Gemma Bridge, research fellow at the University of Leeds tells us about the scaling up and out place-based food initiatives project that a team from the University of Leeds has conducted in collaboration with the Food Foundation. Place-based community led food initiatives include food banks, social supermarkets, community cafes and community supported food growing...

Shona Goudie, policy and advocacy manager at the Food Foundation tells us about new data it published this week which shows just how difficult it is for families on a low income, specifically those with children, to afford a healthy diet. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at The Food Foundation analyses The King's Speech for the new Government's commitment to putting food at the centre of the health of the nation. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Pod Bite, Mali Evans, Head of Engagement and Advocacy at Feeding Bristol tell us about Food Justice Fortnight, its series of summer events to celebrate the city's communities and make space for important conversations about food. Click here for more on Feeding Bristol's Food Justice Fortnight, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here to sign up for the Food Foundation Newsle...

This week, Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation hosts a special panel discussion with four representatives from food businesses and the investment community to discuss what they want and need from the first 100 days of a new government. This is, typically, a really interesting and critical time for new governments to set out their direction of t...

Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation digs into the Labour and Green Party manifestos and assesses their commitment to fixing Britain's broken food system. Click here for the Food Foundation's own Manifesto, and here to sign up for the Newsletter . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the third in a special series of Election Pod Bites, Shona Goudie , Policy and Advocacy Manager at The Food Foundation tells us about our latest report , A Neglected Generation. From the reduction in height of 5 year-olds to the rise in obesity among 10-11 year-olds by 30%, to Type 2 diabetes among under 25s up 22%, we remind a nation about to vote of the shocking deterioration in chi...

In the second of the Food Foundation's Election Special Pod Bites, Executive Director, Anna Taylor responds to the policy issues in the Lib Dem and Conservative manifestos as well as the relaunch of Labour's child health plans. Head to the Food Foundation Manifesto to find more on what we need from the next Government to fix the broken food system. Click here to sign up for the Food Foundation New...

In the first of this series of Election Special Pod Bites in which Anna Taylor, Executive Director at the Food Foundation, tells us about what's been happening in the world of politics and food since the general election campaign has kicked off, we hear her thoughts on the first leaders' TV debate. Click here to read the Food Foundation Manifesto You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure yo...

This week, to kick start a series of Food Foundation analysis on the Election campaign, Lucy Upton, paediatric dietitian, feeding therapist and founder of The Children's Dietitian looks ahead to the 2025 food Foundation's Broken Plate report. This annual flagship report reveals the health of our food system, its impact on our lives and the remedies we need to put in place. Dr Alice Wiseman, Direct...

Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation looks at the impact of the Kid's Food Guarantee, a roadmap of actions for retailers and a set of asks for Government, a year on. Click here for more information on the Kid's Food Guarantee , and here for the Food Foundation's latest report on the packed lunches. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto Yo...

 In this week's Pod Bite,Melanie Vaxevanakis, founder of the Mazi Projec t in Bristol tells us about the importance of choice and dignity within food provision for marginalised young people, and why we need a call for an overhaul of the food system. Click here for more information on Mazi, and here for the Food Foundation manifesto. You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear ab...

On this week's Podbite, Kathleen Kerridge , one of the adult food ambassadors for the Food Foundation, reports back after giving evidence to the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee. One of the questions she was asked by Baroness Rosie Boycott was how much she spends on food in a week. Here she breaks that down to show just how hard it is to feed a family healthily on a low income. Clic...

In this week's Podbite, Veg Power' s CEO, Dan Parker tells us about Simply Veg's new initiative to support families and kids in eating more vegetables, highlighting the challenges faced by parents. He says that the launch of a new e-learning platform which was developed with the involvement of nutritionists and child psychology experts, emphasizes the importance of personalized experiences in heal...

This week, ahead of the mayoral elections on May 2nd, Theo Michaels chef and author of Cypriana, looks at why children's health should be a priority for all the candidates, but particularly those in London.  Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation explains the link between poverty and mental health in the capital where one in five children between eight and 16 repo...

In this week's Podbite, Leticija Petrovic , local food policy lead at the Food Foundation tells us about how the Feed the Future campaign initiated in 2020 by Marcus Rashford comes to West Midlands this month. Please add your voice to our campaign - it only takes two clicks of a button: https://bit.ly/3rlmvWK Click here to read the Food Foundation Manifesto You can also sign up to our newsletter t...

On this week's Pod Bite, Holly Gabriel, nutritionist and campaign lead for consumer health at Share Action, tells us about the shareholder resolution that a coalition, including The Food Foundation is filing at Nestle to calls on the company to increase the amount of healthier food it sells. Click here for more on the coalition behind the initiative, and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto. You...