The Food Foundation Podcast
The Food Foundation
The Food Foundation Podcast takes you inside the UK’s fight against food insecurity, exposing the gaps, holding big food to account, and celebrating the initiatives that make a real difference. From the impact of nourishing school meals to getting more beans on plates, we tell the stories that shape communities and drive change.This month, we are banging on about BEANS in a special series hosted by chef Melissa Hemsley, tune in every Tuesday!The podcast, then named Right2Food, won a 2021 Guild of Food Writers Award.Producer: Gilly Smith for the Food Foundation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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.
Aug 5, 2020 • 31min
Bristol Food Club
This week the Food Foundation's food ambassadors Dev and Asha report from Bristol on the weekly food club which brings early years education and food surplus together to provide local families with quality food boxes and a community that cares about what we eat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 29, 2020 • 28min
Cook It!
This week The Food Foundation's young ambassadors Shane and Anna report from Portadown and the summer Cook It course, a 4-week cookery programme which supports members of immigrant communities and kids on free school meals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 19, 2020 • 28min
Evelyn Community Store
This week, Food Foundation's ambassadors Rabiya and Saffy tell the story of The Evelyn Community store in Lewisham and hear from three single parents and their children who have found a lifeline in this local community centre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 12, 2020 • 32min
Lockdown Life
Jani, Beth and Jacob are among the Food Foundation young ambassadors reporting from the front line of food poverty. Here they tell how COVID-19 has affected the most vulnerable groups in British society, from access to food and free school meal vouchers to the threat of holiday hunger and food insecurity for thousands of children this summer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 25, 2020 • 24min
Right2Food: The Pilot
An introduction to Right2Food, the loud hailing podcast of the Food Foundation to campaign for access to good food for kids everywhere. With Dame Emma Thompson, Anna Taylor and the young ambassadors with lived experience of food insecurity who fight for a better system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
