

The Food Foundation Podcast
The Food Foundation
The Food Foundation podcast is the voice of the charity that tackles the growing challenges facing the UK’s food. Reporting from the frontline of food insecurity, it reveals the gaps in the food system and the inspiring initiatives that are fixing them. From the stigma of free school meals to the enormous impact of holiday activities and food on hungry children, we find the stories that change lives, bind communities and make the politicians sit up and listen. The podcast, then named Right2Food, was the winner of the 2021 Guild of Food Writers' Awards for Investigative Food Work.Producer: Gilly Smith for the Food Foundation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 14, 2021 • 34min
Special - National Food Strategy Youth Consultation
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 recommendations fed directly into the National Food Strategy. In the second episode, our group of twenty debate some tough food issues, before preparing and presenting their policy proposals to invited guests from government, business and the National Food Strategy team. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 14, 2021 • 23min
Special - National Food Strategy Youth Consultation
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 recommendations fed directly into the National Food Strategy.In this first episode, our group of twenty explore what it means to be a citizen and an advocate, they explore what a food system looks like for different products and they consider the problems, causes and solutions of food system issues and how they interact. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 17, 2021 • 35min
Actions4Change
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. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 21, 2021 • 21min
Messaging For Good
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 examples of positive messaging that could reduce obesity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 14, 2021 • 29min
Unravelling The Food Chain
This week Gilly Smith is joined by Subhan Shan, one of 426 young people who the Food Foundation consulted to find fresh new policy ideas for the National Food Strategy. They explore the ways in which we have to count the carbon footprint of our current food system and how we begin to start looking for solutions. And... they find the answer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 7, 2021 • 35min
The Rise of the Food Club
In a special collaboration with the delicious. podcast for delicious. magazine, Gilly Smith introduces us to a group of young people, some of whom have experienced first-hand food poverty, to explore how to make the food system fairer. All four episodes of the delicious. podcast have been produced in partnership with the Food Foundation and the Right2Food podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 31, 2021 • 23min
The Influencers
In a special collaboration with the delicious. podcast for delicious. magazine, Gilly Smith introduces us to a group of young people, some of whom have experienced first-hand food poverty, to explore how to make the food system fairer. All four episodes of the delicious. podcast have been produced in partnership with the Food Foundation and the Right2Food podcast.In this episode, listen to Dame Emma Thompson, Marcus Rashford, Melissa Hemsley and a host of young ambassadors discussing the issues of food poverty, and the ways in which people, no matter their status, can make their voice be heard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 20, 2020 • 28min
Rice, peas and plantain
When refugees and migrants were plunged into food insecurity at the start of the pandemic, losing zero hour contracts and part time jobs, Brighton’s Minority Ethnic Community Partnership (BMECP) became much more than a food bank with its culturally appropriate foods and friendship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 19, 2020 • 32min
Ital: Rasta food and friendship for Lambeth's poorest families
Sister Marcia and Sister Stella of the Rastafari Movement UK are proud to be able to use their Rasta creed to feed the most vulnerable in their community in South London. By gathering surplus organic fruit and veg from their members’ allotments, they deliver ital, the rasta word for nutrition, to those who can barely afford to feed their families throughout the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 15, 2020 • 32min
Our Kitchen on the Isle of Thanet
Sixty nine-year-old food campaigner, Sharon Goodyer shows Food Foundation ambassadors Felix and Fayeth how her private members' food club, Our Kitchen on the Isle of Thanet in Margate could radically change the food system and enable the poorest to afford to cook and eat healthy, delicious food every day of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


