The Food Foundation Podcast

The Food Foundation launches its Broken Plate report this week, its annual State of the Nation assessment on the British food system. And once again, it reveals that our children are still not getting enough access to healthy, nutritious food. In this week's Quick Bites, Young Food Ambassador, Saffron Steddall explains why when she was just 14 and living in food poverty herself, she joined the Food Foundation to champion the rights of every child in the UK to eat a healthy meal every day.Click here to find more about the Right2Food campaign. And if you'd like to get involved with the Food Foundation's ambassador programme, click here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation explains why the Government is wrong to withdraw its promise to introduce restrictions on supermarket multibuy offers until 2025 because of the cost of living crisis. She says that it is precisely because times are tough that we must improve access to healthy foods NOW.For more information please click here to read our publications, press releases and blogs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour MP for South Shields, Emma Lewes-Buck tells us why she introduced a Bill for a Healthy Start scheme this week to encourage auto-enrolment to the Government initiative. The NHS Healthy Start scheme is considered a lifeline for pregnant women and families with young children, providing vital access to fruit and vegetables, milk and vitamins. But more than 200,000 babies and young children in England are missing out on this nutritional safety net, with uptake rates are as low as 50% in some areas. Food poverty levels have almost doubled since last year and rising food inflation has particularly impacted products such as milk, vegetables, and baby formula.It is vital the Government acts now to ensure every child has access to healthy, nutritious meals. That's why the Food Foundation joined has joined a cross-party group of MPs and health campaigners from 27 organisations in writing to Health Secretary Steve Barclay urging him to automatically enrol all families to Healthy Start.For more information and to read Emma's letter to the Secretary of State, click here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 In this episode of Quick Bites, the Food Foundation's series of thoughts and snap analyses of news events, Rebecca Tobi, senior business and investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation shares the launch of this week's Kids Food Guarantee dashboard, our set of asks and actions that we'd like to see retailers, and manufacturers taking to support families through the cost of living crisis. Click here for the Kids Food Guarantee, and here for Food Foundation's Quick Bites webinars on our YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's volunteer week at the Food Foundation, and chef, food writer and Bake Off winner, Chetna Makan introduces us to some of the voices from the frontline of food insecurity. The Food Foundation looks for solutions to the growing challenges facing the UK's food system, and presents them to government and private sector. But perhaps its most important contribution is its team of ambassadors, young people and adults with lived experience of many of the issues it campaigns about.  We meet the core bloggers on Breadline Voices, Dan White, Dominic Watters and Kathleen Kerridge and learn how the ambassador programme at the Food Foundation has helped them to develop their presenting skills and speak directly to the people who can change policy at the very top of the food chain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 In this episode of Quick Bites, the Food Foundation's series of thoughts and snap analyses of news events, Vicky Sibson, director of First Steps Nutrition Trust tells us about the campaign for regulation on the cost of infant formula. First Steps is working with the Food Foundation to improve access to better food and nutrition from preconception to age five. Vicky explains why in the UK's formula feeding culture we need safe and appropriate access to formula, and to make sure that it is available to the most vulnerable in our society.Click here for the Kids Food Guarantee, and here for Food Foundation's Quick Bites webinars on our YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elena Vacca, Youth Engagement Coordinator at the Food Foundation takes us to the first ever Children's Food Summit in Leeds on 16 May 2023. This in-person event from Sustain's Children's Food Campaign coalition brought together leading voices from the world of children’s food and the opportunity to shape future plans with other change-makers. Click here for more information on the work the Food Foundation does on children's right to food. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, guest presenter, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall looks at how to make a case for policy change through the compelling stories of lived experience of poverty. Charities like the Food Foundation try to find solutions to the growing challenges facing the UK food system and present them to government and the private sector. But the work has to have impact. Marcus Rashford, Dame Emma Thompson and the young food ambassadors from the Food Foundation tell it how it is, while Dolly Theis of Dolitics argues that a policy merry go round makes any real and lasting change unlikely to be implemented.If you have lived experience of food insecurity and want to get involved in advocacy, do get in touch with the Food Foundation. Just click here to contact the Food Foundation team.Click here for more information on Tackling the Cost of Food Crisis presentation at Parliament and here for more on Sustain's Healthy Start campaign. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sofia Parente, head of Local Action at Sustain, looks at how campaigns can affect Government policy.She tells us about  an open letter to Government from a coalition of charities and NGOs, including The Food Foundation,about Healthy Start which led to an update in Government policy. Click for more information on Veg Cities and The Food Foundation’s campaign for better access to Healthy Start.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 different stores and how supermarkets can help. The Food Foundation talked about its new Kids Food Guarantee with some of its Food Ambassadors telling MPs how the cost of living crisis is impacting people’s lives Here, Shona tells us about the launch of 'They Know We're Here, But They Don't See Us', a new short film by The Food Foundation at the event which explores parents’ experiences of feeding their families during the cost of living crisis. She talks about its impact on an audience of NGOs, supermarkets and MPs, and the Food Foundation's suggestions of how to change the food story in Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.