The Food Foundation Podcast

In the first of this 12-part monthly series of The Broken Plate, we examine the findings of the Food Foundation's annual report on the state of the nation's food system.Guest presenter, Dr Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed, MasterChef winner, gastroenterologist and author of The Sunday Times bestseller, The Kitchen Prescription, explores the importance of the food system in shaping the nation's health and wealth with Food Foundation trustee, Laura Sandys, MPs Peter Aldous and Daniel Zeichner, Breadline Voices Dan White and Dominic Watters, Dr Kawther Hashem from Action in Sugar and the report's authors, Shona Goudie.To get involved with the Food Foundation, click here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Quick Bites, Tilda Ferree, Project Officer at the Food Foundation takes us behind the scenes of the Involving Citizens in Food Activism report.The veg advocate programme was launched in March 2020 as part of the Peas Please programme, its mission: to make it easier for everybody in the UK to eat more veg. Working with agents for change, this is another partnership initiative in which lived experience is the key to understanding how to change the food system for the sake of our health, the health of the planet and the economy.Click here for Peas Please and here for more information on veg advocates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.