The Food Foundation Podcast

Sarah Bentley, founder of plant-based community cookery school and charity, Made in Hackney tells us how a small community initiative became the catalyst for a global plant based food justice movement.Read our latest food insecurity report here and sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with updates about the food system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alicia Weston, CEO of Bags of Taste explains why rising prices and food inflation can make a traditional Christmas unaffordable and inaccessible for too many people in the UK.Read our latest food insecurity report here and sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with updates about the food system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Food Foundation tells us about the new child poverty strategy published at the end of last week, with reflections from the policy team.Read our latest blog for more in-depth analysis here and keep up to date with our latest news and events by signing up to our newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Tobi, Head of Food Business Transformation at the Food Foundation tell us about our new State of the Nation's Food Industry report for 2025 which we launched this week. Click here to read the report, and here to watch a a panel of leading food businesses and investors analysing the findings. Sign up to our newsletter for all our latest news and updates here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Food Foundation has been digesting the autumn budget through the lens of diet and health inequalities, and gives us a quick whistle stop tour of some of the key announcements relevant to the work of the Food Foundation.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, read our Budget blog here and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Tilda Ferree, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Food Foundation gives us an update about the Healthy Start campaign and why the Food Foundation is pushing for this government to strengthen the scheme as part of the child poverty strategy.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Pod Bite, Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation tells us about the launch of the Government's School Breakfast Programme from its new Office for the Impact Economy, a single front door for impact investors, philanthropy and purpose driven businesses to partner with government and collectively grow social impact across the UK. Click here to read our latest blog on the subject and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chloe McKean, Food Business Transformation Manager of The Food Foundation, tells us about a brand new campaign with Veg Power: Bang in Some Beans, which aims to double the consumption of beans in the UK by 2028.Click here to sign up for The Food Foundation newsletter and here for more information on the Bang in Some Beans campaign. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kicking off our new podcast series, we dive right into the heart of nutrition for the youngest children with a focus on Early Years settings.Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at The Food Foundation is joined by a panel of experts for a deep dive into early years nutrition: Neil Leitch, CEO of the Early Years Alliance, and also a Food Foundation trustee, Sarah Ambrose, Area Manager and Curriculum Lead for Safari Child Care, Dayna Brackley, Partner at Bremner and Co, and Charlotte Stirling-Reed, registered nutritionist.Early years nutrition is essential to life long-health and wellbeing, giving children the best start in life. Over a million children are attending some form of formal childcare setting, so what and how they are fed in those settings is really important. Read our latest report on early years nutrition policy here.Please sign up for our newsletter to hear the latest updates from The Food Foundation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shona Goudie, Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Food Foundation tells us about our new report, Roadmap to Reducing Food Insecurity which investigates the impact of food insecurity over the past few years and what we can learn from it.The report aims to understand the scale of the problem, the extent to which people are struggling, and identify who is at most at risk so the government and local authorities can most effectively target support.Click here to read the report, and here to sign up to our newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lydia Collas, Head of Natural Environment at Green Alliance tells us about their report published this month which explores the consequences of eating more plant-based food for food security, for economic growth and for our health. Click here for the full report, here to learn how climate change is affecting food prices and here to sign up to our newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Taylor, Executive Director at The Food Foundation analyses the latest EAT-Lancet Commission report which warns that food systems are breaching planetary limits.The 2025 Report on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems presents the most comprehensive to date.Click here to find out how Climateflation is affecting food prices and here to sign up to our newsletter for update and analysis of food system developments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joss McDonald, Public Affairs Lead at the Food Foundation reports back from the Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool, and finds a party not blowing its own trumpet on its food policy wins.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Barbara Crowther, Children's Food Campaign Manager at Sustain, the Alliance for Better Food and Farming, tells us about how the expansion of healthy school meals to all children could work better, not just for children's health, but also for local, sustainable and British farming.Click here for more information on Sustain's Follow the Carrot campaign, and here to sign up for the Food Foundation newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Food Foundation is joined by Food Foundation Ambassador and mother of two young children from Hartlepool, Barbara Achingale, Vic Harper, CEO of The Bread and Butter Thing, and Amanda Bailey, Director of the North East Child Poverty Commission to talk about diet and health inequalities across England.With the publication this week of a new dashboard from The Food Foundation which estimates the prevalence of diet-related disease by constituency, drawing on local authority data, the panel explores the factors in the North East which make strong links to deprivation. Read The Food Foundation's latest news here and sign up for our newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Tobi, Head of Food Business Transformation at the Food Foundation tells us about a major new programme of work The Food Foundation is kicking off across the UK this year to better support everyone in the UK to eat more beans. Read The Food Foundation's latest news here and sign up for our newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dan Parker, Chief Executive of Veg Power, tells us about the Veg Power Summit happening on 18th September, which will brings together 100 food sector leaders with a shared purpose to improve children's dietary health.Click here for more information on Veg Power, read The Food Foundation's latest news here and sign up for our newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Garance Boullenger, Lead at the Healthy Markets Initiative at Share Action, a UK based NGO, campaigning for a fairer, healthier financial system tells us about a powerful move from a group of investors to urge the UK Government to introduce ambitious mandatory health reporting for the food industry.Click here to read the Investor Letter from Share Action, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Government publishes its monthly food inflation statistics, Anna Taylor, the Executive Director of the Food Foundation tells us what's that means for the weekly supermarket shop.Click here for more information on the Food Prices Tracker.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Buszard, the Responsible Investor Lead at the Food Foundation tells us about our latest briefing that discusses the critical relationship between dietary patterns and the environmental impacts of food production on nature and biodiversity loss and the need for systemic change towards more sustainable food systems.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.--- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.