An independent organisation aiming to present solutions to government and the private sector to address the growing challenges facing the UK’s food system.
We have been working with
@MarcusRashford
on his
#EndChildFoodPoverty
campaign for over a year now. He's brought more attention to the issue than we ever thought possible. No matter the setbacks, he's a hero on and off the pitch. Thank you Marcus.
A win for disadvantaged children
A win for the brave parents and children who spoke up about experiences of food poverty
A win for the 1.1m who signed
@MarcusRashford
petition to
#EndChildFoodPoverty
Read full details on the package & our response here:
"People claim education is the best means of combating poverty, but that formula is only successful if children are able to engage with learning. No child can engage and sustain concentration on an empty stomach"
🗣️
@MarcusRashford
#EndChildFoodPoverty
We're delighted to be invited by
@MarcusRashford
to join the Child Food Poverty TaskForce endorsing 3
@food_strategy
recommendations ahead of the Chancellor's Autumn Budget. We're providing evidence to shine a spotlight on the reality of child food insecurity
#EndChildFoodPoverty
We stand with
@MarcusRashford
in calling on Government to conduct an URGENT COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW into
#FreeSchoolMeals
policy across UK nations.
Sticking plasters & short term solutions will not suffice.
Now is the time to act.
#EndChildFoodPoverty
It is so important when people stand up to help end the stigma of
#FreeSchoolsMeals
& support our urgent campaign to expand FSM’s -
@ZaynMalik
is doing just that. He has written to
@RishiSunak
to address the issue of 800k children in poverty missing out -
👏 Thank you
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
for extending
#FreeSchoolMeals
to all primary school children in London!
270,000 pupils will benefit from this decision.
We now need central govt to end the postcode lottery of access to this safety net.
Read more:
Supported by
@MarcusRashford
, the extended holiday activities & food programme (
#HAF2021
) will offer nutritious meals & fun for school-aged children in England this summer.
🍽️ Places are free to those who receive FSM.
Watch our video & find out more ➡️
No child should be unable to attend or concentrate at school due to lack of access to healthy food. This should not be happening in our country in 2020.
We stand stand alongside
@MarcusRashford
in saying to our Government: urgent change is needed.
#EndChildFoodPoverty
#Right2Food
Today we launch our
#FeedtheFuture
campaign calling on
@GOVUK
to give Free School Meals to more children.
This will support families during the
#CostOfLivingCrisis
and guarantee children a hot meal daily.
Please support the campaign & write to your MP:
When was the last time you saw a humble carrot ad? Only 5% of the £296.6m confectionery, snacks, fruit, veg & soft drinks budget, gets spent on f&v. We need a dedicated marketing budget for veg to compete with the abundance of junk
🍽️🗺️Check out KidsMealsMap, built to support families & children over the October half term. It shows the businesses, community organisations and councils who have pledged to support children with food this holiday.
@MarcusRashford
#EndChildFoodPoverty
1.5 million have gone a whole day without eating since lockdown began & 7.1 million have had to skip meals. The government must put money in the pockets of families who can’t afford food & support local authorities to scale up their food aid response
@DWP
We are calling for transparency on what is being offered in
#FreeSchoolMeal
parcels to ensure children are able to eat well and learn from home in these unprecedented times.
We asked people which food items would be MOST helpful for supermarkets to put on promotion to help with the
#costoflivingcrisis
? Our results show a whopping 8️⃣1️⃣ % would prefer promotions on essentials like fruit & veg, meat, diary, pasta and rice rather than
#junkfood
📢 Our latest report highlights the disconcerting deterioration in children's health.
📏 Height of 5 year-olds falling since 2013
🩺 Obesity among 10-11 year-olds up 30%
💉 Type 2 diabetes among under 25s up 22%
Read more: ➡️
@jamieoliver
BRILLIANT NEWS! The gov makes the right decision & extends free school meals into the summer holidays for the 1.3 million children in England who rely on FSM daily. It's time we prioritised our children's
#Right2Food
.
@MarcusRashford
#maketheUturn
🍽️
#BrokenPlate
2021🍽️
Published today, our new report lifts the lid on our nations's food system. It examines how it impacts our lives across 10 metrics, making the case for a shift towards healthy and sustainable diets for all.
See the full report ➡️
Today the House of Lords Select Committee launches its landmark report "Hungry for Change" . Read our summary of the highlights below & join us to listen to the Committee Chair, Lord Krebs on Wednesday
.
@BorisJohnson
- today you did the right thing in extending free school meals into the summer holidays. The
#Right2Food
Young Food Ambassadors have spent over a year campaigning for affordable, healthy food to be accessible for every child. Will you meet with them?
#maketheUturn
"Today we are calling on the government to do everything possible to help the most vulnerable families, now and in the future." Dame Emma Thompson calls for every child's
#right2food
during
#Covid19UK
. New food insecurity data coming in full tomorrow
🍽️
#BrokenPlate2023
🍽️
Our flagship annual
#BrokenPlate
report is officially launching today!
It features up to date analysis on the state of the food system and key insights on how we can shape a better future.
Find out more: ➡️
@NuffieldFound
British vegetables are about to undergo a VERY creative rebranding. Congratulations to
@vegpoweruk
on hitting the £100,000 crowdfund target, and thank you to everyone who donated.
#vegpower
Today we launch a report revealing how the pandemic’s effect on household food insecurity remains at crisis levels⚠️
Our data estimates 4.7 million adults have been food insecure in the last 6 months. Full findings from 1 year of food insecurity tracking👉
Incredible leadership from the London Mayor who is proposing a ban on junk food marketing across TFL. A policy which genuinely puts the health of London's kids above commercial interests. Londoners show your support and feed back on the consultation!
Furlough has been extended until autumn, but free school meal vouchers won't be made available over the holidays, despite our evidence on the scale of UK food insecurity. This will leave 1.3m children unsupported: the gov is facing legal action from
@UKSustain
&
@GoodLawProject
We are DELIGHTED that Government has decided today to allow children from low-income families with
#NRPF
(No Recourse to Public Funds) to permanently access
#FreeSchoolMeals
, something our
@CR2FCampaign
Ambassadors have campaigned on for years! BIG win!!
We are so ENORMOUSLY PROUD of our young food ambassador
@DevSharmaMYP
who received a
@DianaAward
today for all of his amazing campaigning for children’s
#right2food
. A huge well done Dev – you are changing the world RIGHT NOW! 👏🍴
#2020DianaAwards
.
@MarcusRashford
highlights our finding - 200,000 UK kids skipped meals during lockdown because they didn't have enough food. It's critical that govt delivers
#FSM
holiday provision & establishes a Children's Right to Food Commission for long-term change
#maketheUturn
#Right2Food
OMG. We hit 100,000 in just under 10 hours. Huge public support and its still growing. Please keep sharing with everyone and anyone you know
#endchildfoodpoverty
✨NEW REPORT✨
Efforts to reduce childhood obesity will be impossible without Government recognition that a child's health starts in the womb.
Lear more in our Preconception, Pregnancy and Healthy Weight in Childhood report: ↩️
Today's
@guardian
highlights our analysis demonstrating that “in just a few weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the extraordinary fragility of the food system.” We desperately need government leadership to deliver a coordinated response
#coronavirus
👏 Well done
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
for funding around 10 million meals to families on low incomes -starting during the Easter school holidays!
We now need central Govt to step up and end the postcode lottery of access to this vital nutritional safety net outside of
#London
We are very concerned about reports the Government could be about to U-turn on its obesity prevention policies in the name of 'cutting red tape'
#JunkFoodAds
#BOGOF
#Obesity
#AdEnough
Here's our full response 🔽
NEW FOOD FOUNDATION REPORT PUBLISHED: The Broken Plate🍽️
Ten vital signs documenting the health of our food system, how it impacts on our lives, and why we must change the food environment. Read the full report here:
#BrokenPlate
We've been working with
@MarcusRashford
, the Child Food Poverty Taskforce and a coalition of charities to
#EndChildFoodPoverty
Watch the story in a major documentary airing Monday 21st 7pm
@BBCOne
+ brand new website launching soon to map support for families & children this Xmas
Making healthy diets affordable was a key theme for
@LordsFoodCom
's Hungry for Change report & today's webinar. New analysis for our upcoming Broken Plate report shows the situation isn't improving - healthy foods are 3x as expensive as less healthy foods. Fruit & veg esp. pricey
Chef
@jamieoliver
celebrating the rolling out of
#FreeSchoolMeals
to primary school children in
#London
on
@BBCr4today
Now we need
@GOVUK
to ensure every child has equal access to at least one hot meal a day at school, no matter where they live!
Learn more:
No child should eat just once a day. We need to re-think our approach to Children's food. We stand alongside
@MarcusRashford
and a Civil Society coalition in asking Government to adopt 3 key recommendations from the National
@food_strategy
so together we can
#EndChildFoodPoverty
🧵THREAD🧵
This week MP Lee Anderson made comments blaming high levels of food bank use on a lack of cooking and budgeting skills. He claimed a nutritious meal could easily be cooked for 30p. Was he right?
#CostOfLivingCrisis
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Before Covid-19, 4.2 million children were living in poverty in the UK.
That's 9 in every classroom of 30.
Urgent action is required. We support
@MarcusRashford
in endorsing 3 key
@food_strategy
asks to Government ahead of the autumn budget.
#EndChildFoodPoverty
#Right2Food
New Food Foundation report
#BrokenPlate
published today! We’ve identified 10 key signs that the UK food system is leading the country into a national health crisis. Full report here:
New Food Foundation data shows that veg box sales have increased by 111% in six weeks as a result of
#COVID
ー19. Find out more and read the full report by
@amberfood
here >>>
#PeasPlease
'We need food companies who are prepared to show leadership on helping to tackle childhood obesity, and not act as a dead weight on policy intervention'
Our reaction to
#Kellogg
's losing its court case against
@GOVUK
#Obesity
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#HFSS
We're unbelievably proud that our trustee
@MichaelMarmot
received the Companion of Honour award today. He is THE global hero on health inequalities and the world is a better place as a result of his leadership. Thank you Michael.
📝 The narrative that individuals are responsible for the choices they make forms a large part of the political messaging on dietary health.
Our latest briefing deep dives into the evidence, finding the changing the environment people live in is far more effective than
Making sure 800,000 children in poverty get a
#FreeSchoolMeal
is a great idea
@RishiSunak
Removing stigma & giving all kids a nutritious meal at school is even better. That's why thousands have written to their MPs and signed petitions calling on the Govt to act.
#FeedtheFuture
In our new
#BrokenPlate
report we find that healthy foods are three times as expensive as less healthy foods per calorie! Food price is a major determinant of food choice, with price rises disproportionately affecting lower income groups.
Full report here:
TODAY IS THE DAY - the Children's Future Food Inquiry final report is here and will be launched with Dame Emma Thompson & England's young Food Ambassadors in Westminster this morning. Read it now:
#Right2Food
🗣️ 'If we're excluding large sections of the population from being able to eat a diet that is fully nutritious we're in a very dangerous situation'
Our Executive Director Anna Taylor touches on
#UltraProcessedFood
while giving evidence to the
@HLFoodObesity
Find out more: ➡️
With children across the country learning from home it is more vital than ever they're accessing nutritious food.
We urge caterers providing
#FreeSchoolMeal
parcels to follow National
@food_strategy
guidance & publish the spec of parcel contents so parents know what to expect.
During lockdown 52% of food insecure households didn't try to find help to improve their situation. 38% of them said they would feel bad asking for help. 39% of them said they didn’t want to ask. We must do more to break down
#stigma
around
#FoodInsecurity
#EndChildFoodPoverty
🧵 As children return to school it's exciting that 287,000 more primary school pupils across
#London
will be able to receive
#FreeSchoolMeals
This stops stigma, supports with the
#costofliving
& makes sure all youngsters have equal opportunity to learn, grow and thrive.
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The UK food system is broken, & the prognosis for children born in 2019 is not good. On the day that we can at last welcome a national measurement of food insecurity from
@DWP
, we'll be officially launching our
#BrokenPlate
report at
@UKHouseofLords
🌟 To mark today's
#leapday2024
we're using the extra day to call on MPs and policymakers to take decisive action to improve our food system!
To boost the nation's health and our economy it is crucial everyone can afford and access nutritious food.
Join our campaign: ➡️
Introducing the newly formed Fruit & Vegetable Alliance, which brings together a huge range of voices to collectively make the case for supporting the production and consumption fruit & veg in the UK in order to support the UK's public health
Good to see that the government has set up a new cross departmental ministerial task force focusing on vulnerable groups. It's now vital that this supports a national coordination mechanism to address unmet need for food security
#COVID19
#Right2Food
Big admiration for our young food ambassador
@DevSharmaMYP
who has been the voice of 1.3 million Free School Meal children with national media+ even name-checked in parliament!So important to involve young people with lived experience in decisions on
#Right2Food
#maketheUturn
We've launched an interactive dashboard charting the ups and downs of children's food policy over the last 140 years!
It aims to highlight changing government attitudes to childhood nutrition and poverty.
👩🏻💻 Find out more here:
Levelling up on diet & strengthening nutritional safety net is top in today’s
@food_strategy
report. It’s a MUST READ. Schools meals, holiday provision & Healthy Start must expand.
Huge growth in free school meals urged to tackle food poverty crisis
"We're in a situation where the scale of this challenge really warrants the Government looking fresh at the policy options and putting in place substantial plans to tackle it"
🗣️ Anna Taylor, Food Foundation director outlines to BBC Breakfast the 3 national
@food_strategy
asks
At the DWP Select Committee, I questioned Theresa Coffey. I was frankly embarrassed and left frustrated by the Minister’s lack of an answer. There was no recognition of the impact of UK Tory welfare policies on food insecurity and challenges with the cost of living.
🥦🥕🥒Calling all Veg lovers🥦🥕🥒
We're incredibly excited to announce VEG FEST 2020!
@PeasPleaseUK
@VegPowerUK
and
@VegCities
are bringing our communities together to discuss all things Veg! Head here for the full programme & to register for webinars:
Don't forget to listen to
@jamieoliver
guest editing
@BBCr4today
today!
He's promised to cover health campaigns, obesity prevention policies, and the importance of extending
#FreeSchoolMeals
🎧 Click here to listen:
'The Chancellor's decision to overlook the wealth of compelling evidence and groundswell of public support to extend
#FreeSchoolMeals
is not just extraordinarily short-sighted; it lacks compassion'
Our reaction to today's
#Budget
announcement by
@Jeremy_Hunt
#FeedtheFuture
NEW FOOD FOUNDATION DATA:
🟡14% of UK families with children have experienced food insecurity in the past 6 months
🟡 Four million people including 2.3 million children live in these households
Full data & report here:
#Right2Food
#EndChildFoodPoverty
📢 Great news that
#FreeSchoolMeals
are being extended to all primary school children in
#London
for another academic year.
Up to 287,000 children in the capital have benefitted from the policy - we'd love to see the scheme expanded nationwide!
Read more:
Thanks to
@DoctorChrisVT
for raising important issues tonight.
We know voluntary reformulation targets haven't worked, as children and adults are still bombarded by
#HFSS
foods.
Government must continue to act to create a healthier food environment.
#WhatAreWeFeedingOurKids
Sign up now to our
#webinar
on Tuesday 5 May at 11am to hear our findings from our latest survey on food insecurity experienced by families and children during the
#COVID_19uk
#lockdown
– link to attend here:
Food prices rise again putting healthy eating further out of reach for low income families. This is why
@DefraGovUK
must track household food insecurity.
📢 A coalition of 140+ organisations is calling for ALL low income households with No Recourse to Public Funds to be given permanent access to the
@NHSHealthyStart
Scheme.
So we've written to Health Minister
@andrealeadsom
asking her to urgently revise eligibility criteria to
**EXCITING NEW JOB @ THE FOOD FOUNDATION** - The Veg Advocate Support Officer will run workshops in England as part of the Peas Please initiative to drive the enormous changes needed to get the nation eating more veg. Apply here >
#PeasPlease
We're looking for schools to take part in consultation workshops to feed into the National
@food_strategy
, due to be released early next year.
If you could help us run a workshop with students, please get in touch - NFSYouth
@foodfoundation
.org.uk