The Food Foundation Podcast

Shona Goudie, policy and advocacy officer at The Food Foundation tells us about an event at The Churchill Room in The House of Commons this week which brings new stories from the front line of food poverty. Co-hosted by Which? and chaired by Radio 4 Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon , the audience heard new findings on the availability of budget range options to support a healthy diet across...

Alice English, project manager at The Food Foundation is just back from the Houses of Parliament where she and the team have been asking growers, NGOs and MPs how we can boost fruit and vegetable production and consumption in the UK. As the Government develops its new Horticulture Strategy for England, The Food Foundation and SHEFs global research consortium have been analysing what mix of policie...

Dr Annie Connolly, Research and Engagement Lead at the Food Foundation , introduces us to Fix our Food, a project aiming to transform the food system in Yorkshire. As part of its work, a ground-breaking research and transformational programme, being led by the Food Foundation's Young Food Ambassadors , is currently investigating access to healthy  and  sustainable options for children wh...

This week, we're celebrating five years of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, better known as the Sugar Tax. Introduced on April 6th 2018, the tax on the production and import of soft drinks that contain added sugar has been a win:win for industry and consumers, and the result of years of campaigning from stakeholders across the sector and support from MPs from the political spectrum. Dr Rupy Aujla, a...

Barbara Crowther from Sustain , the Alliance for Food and Farming considers how we can create a world where all children can have a healthy school meal without barriers or stigma. Sustain's network of over 100 Food farming, health education, and schools groups is working to create a better food environment for children to grow up in, to learn, to eat healthily and be healthy. Barbara introduces it...

In the second of the Food Foundation Podcast’s Quick Bites, its series of thoughts and snap analyses on key news events, we’re visiting FF HQ to meet more of the team. Shona Goudie is the Senior Policy and Advocacy officer at the Food Foundation which has been tracking levels of food insecurity in the UK since the start of the pandemic. With today's update on the Food Insecurity Tracker, Shona pai...

In the first of the Food Foundation Podcast’s Quick Bites, its series of thoughts and snap analyses on key news events, we’re talking about the Budget. Zoe McIntyre is the project manager for Children's Right2Food, the Food Foundation’s nationwide initiative to ensure every child in the UK can access and afford good food. She tells us why it matters that 800,000 children living in povert...

This week, guest presenter, food writer, chef, founder of Wahaca restaurants , and trustee of Chefs in Schools, Thomasina Miers asks what opportunities the current fruit and veg shortages could offer to build resilience into our broken food system in the UK. The Food Foundation has recently published a series of briefings in collaboration with a team of researchers from the Sustainable and Healthy...

This week, Sophie Lawrence , Stewardship and Engagement Lead at Rathbone Greenbank Investments is our guest presenter. She was one of the guests who spoke at The Food Foundation’s Investor Summit, Putting Money on the Menu , which was the first of its kind to explore how the investment community can transform the UK food system. Following the  UN Food Systems Summit and the rel...

This week, Melissa Hemsley, food writer, chef and sustainability champion, joins the Food Foundation podcast to look at the factors that can stop women getting healthy food when they're pregnant and when they're planning to be. The Food Foundation's latest report Preconception, Pregnancy and Healthy Weight in Childhood shows how much a child’s health is influenced before conception, in the womb, a...

In this episode, we’re at the front line of food insecurity as we visit some of the food banks feeding migrants and asylum seekers who don’t have recourse to public funds this Christmas. We’re looking at the key findings of a new report by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and commissioned by the Food Foundation . It shows a pretty bleak Christmas for over a millio...

This week, Dev looks back at the Food Foundation 's Feed the Future event which promoted the super powers of free school meals to a hall full of MPs, campaigners and celebrity chefs. 800,000 children live in poverty in the UK, but because they’re not poor enough, they’re not entitled to free school meals. The threshold is just £7400 per household after benefits, yet expanding free school meals to...

Accompanying the publication this week of the Food Foundation's annual State of the Nation report , we look at how the Out of Home sector is woefully behind in setting health targets, and providing healthier food options for the vast number of people - including children - who eat out regularly. Presented by Food Foundation young food ambassador, Saf, we hear from Sainsbury's , Eating Better and t...

In this episode, Yumna, one of our young food ambassadors takes us to her home town of Birmingham and the Commonwealth Food Futures 2022 conference where 20 cities around the world showcase their plans to transform the food system.  Yumna speaks to Dr David Nabarro, co-leader of the United Nation's Global Crisis Response Group , nurse, midwife, activist and the first female Foreign Minister o...

This week, sisters Laiba and Rushda, two of the Food Foundation' s newest young ambassadors , report on how learning to cook, eating fresh food and growing it in nursery and pre-school gardens could help to transform our food culture and the nation’s health. At Crookfur Family Centre in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow, they find how kids learn to play with broccoli trees in the dinosaur sand pit, run...

This week, Jani looks at how a Good Food Bill could create a more resilient system, feeding people better and future-proofing food insecurity in the UK as we face a massive rise in the cost of living, food shortages, energy hikes and climate change. The waters are getting very choppy for all of us. But for some of the most vulnerable, it's really scary.  Isabel Hughes from The Food Foundation...

This week, we’re looking at Levelling Up , the Government's plan to equal out the differences between north and south to help towns recover from decades of poverty. Asha, one of the Food Foundation 's teenage ambassadors, finds out what that means in her home town of Barrow-in-Furness on the North West coast. Once known as the Chicago of England, Barrow was the largest iron and steel producer in t...

Food Foundation ambassador, Ryan McShane and Act4Food Act4Change youth leader, Dara Karakolis present this special episode of Right2Food from COP26 . With roving reporters, Dev, Bernis and Yumna joining them to bring the young person's view from Glasgow, they explain why it's so important that food and farming is on the climate change agenda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

In this episode, Food Foundation ambassadors Fayeth and Beth explore the stigma and availability of healthy options in free school meals, and the trail blazing example set by Nourish Scotland and the Scottish government. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Beth, one of the Food Foundation 's teenage ambassadors, takes us back to the heady days of summer when holiday activity programmes funded by the Government gave so many kids a chance to get at least one good meal a day. A host of parents, teachers and play scheme leaders, including the award winning Abraham Moss Warriors , explain why it's vital that the Holiday Activities and Food Pro...

Join Asha and the Food Foundation' s young food advocates as they camp out for a weekend of growth, learning and creativity at Valley Fest in Somerset. As they develop their understanding of food system transformation and their advocacy and campaigning skills in a fun and engaging environment, they're inspired by business leaders, campaigners, politicians, and policy makers, as well as young food...

The Food Foundation spoke to 426 young people across the country in September and October 2020 to find out their views and priorities for the future of food in Britain.   Twenty of those young people joined together on Zoom to dive deeper into food systems and refine their ideas and priorities. They then presented their policy proposals to invited decision makers. The report and their re...

The Food Foundation spoke to 426 young people across the country in September and October 2020 to find out their views and priorities for the future of food in Britain. Twenty of those young people joined together on Zoom to dive deeper into food systems and refine their ideas and priorities. They then presented their policy proposals to invited decision makers. The report and their recommendation...

Sixteen-year-old food activist, Saffron Stedall introduces us to some of the young campaigners behind a global youth movement called Act4Food Act4Change. She hears their stories and why they're taking their Actions4Change, the first ever list of asks of governments and businesses all over the world need in order to transform our broken food system to the UN Food Systems Summit. Hosted on Acast. Se...

Ever wondered if advertising  healthy  food to kids on TV could change the way they snack? In the final episode in this series, co-hosted with the delicious. podcast for delicious magazine , Gilly Smith is joined by Abbie ParkesHolden and Charlie Thurloe, two of the young people helping the Food Foundation to find fresh new ideas to change the food system, look at some extraordinary...