📻 Our Executive Director Anna Taylor highlighting the fact supermarkets actually want the government to intervene and better regulate the food industry on today's BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme. She also celebrates the fact Tesco have launched a low-cost unsweetened yogurt - which is one of the asks in our Kids Food Guarantee project! Listen in full: https://lnkd.in/e86yVETZ Read more about the Kids Food Guarantee here: https://lnkd.in/ezvRDfed #costoflivingcrisis #foodpoverty #earlyyears #yogurt #nutrition
The Food Foundation
Think Tanks
We're a charity presenting solutions to achieve a sustainable food system which delivers health and wellbeing for all.
About us
We are a registered charity working in partnership with researchers, campaigners, community bodies, industry, government and citizens to galvanise the UK’s diverse agents of change. Our vision is sustainable food system which delivers health and wellbeing for all.
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www.foodfoundation.org.uk/work-with-us
External link for The Food Foundation
- Industry
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- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London
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- Nonprofit
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International House, 6 Canterbury Crescent
London, SW9 7QE, GB
Employees at The Food Foundation
Updates
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✨ Dame Emma Thompson has backed calls for the voices of parents and children to be heard as part of the The Labour Party government's Child Poverty Taskforce! Her support comes as Food Ambassadors from across the UK who have suffered food poverty or food insecurity wrote a letter to co-chairs Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall today saying it is essential everyone can afford - and have access to - a healthy and sustainable diet. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQbKGxXi #foodpoverty #NourishingtheNation #childpoverty
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📯 Is your child entitled to Free School Meals? If so, the FixOurFood team wants to hear from YOU! They are keen to hear from parents who recently received a letter telling them their child has been automatically registered to receive Free School Meals. It involves a 45 minute interview with a £25 reward. Email: [email protected] or read more info here: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e5afEJTR
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🏫 Did you know 'cruel' means testing separates schoolchildren at lunchtime based on the household income of their parents? 33% of children living below the poverty line in England are missing out on free school meals as a result! Kate Anstey, Head of Education Policy at Child Poverty Action Group UK explains more in our latest podcast. 🎧 Listen in full: https://lnkd.in/eifJBzp5 #freeschoolmeals #foodpoverty #foodinsecurity School Food Matters Chefs in Schools FixOurFood
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🚨 No young person should have to worry about whether they are going to eat. Our latest report shows food insecurity has a particularly negative impact on young people - 31% of food-insecure children feel stressed or worried every day compared to 10% of food secure children. Read more: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e_gUsMeg
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🗣️ Our Executive Director Anna Taylor calling for government policy to reflect the link between not having access to healthy food and poor mental health on Times Radio. Our latest report shows those not having reliable access to food have increased anxiety (72%), depression (67%) and stress (66%). Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e_gUsMeg #MentalHealthAwareness #foodpoverty
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🎪 Our Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager Rebecca Tobi RNutr is chairing a Future Food Tech LTD Summit discussion about how businesses can make sure their products are healthy and appealing to customers today! The panel, starting at 12pm, includes Imke van Gasselt, Vice President of Healthy and Sustainable Diets at Ahold Delhaize, Stacey Lockyer, Senior Nutrition Scientist at British Nutrition Foundation and John Barber, Deputy Director of Healthy Life Mission at Nesta. More details here: ➡ https://lnkd.in/g-NnuNz #FutureFoodTech #sustainablediets
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📢 Coverage of our report highlighting the links between mental health and food insecurity in today's Forbes 👇 https://lnkd.in/ef7Hp8M5 #MentalHealth #foodinsecurity #foodpoverty #mentalhealthawareness
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⚠️ People facing food insecurity are more than twice as likely to be living with a mental health condition. Our latest report finds families across the UK are stuck in a cycle of poverty, food insecurity and poor mental health - with children particularly affected. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e_gUsMeg #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #foodinsecurity #foodpoverty
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📢 Growing numbers of community-led food initiatives are being set up across the UK to combat rising food prices and the cost of living crisis. Our Local Food Policy Lead Leticija Petrovic reports on the pioneering place-based interventions helping create more resilient food systems! Read more: https://lnkd.in/enzRV7FQ You can also listen to our latest podcast on the subject here: https://lnkd.in/ee42JR6Q #costoflivingcrisis #communityfood #placebased #blog