Children's #Right2Food Campaign
@CR2FCampaign
Nationwide initiative led by young people to ensure every UK child can access and afford good food. Project of the @food_foundation
#Right2Food
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📽️ Why we need mandatory reporting by food sector companies - as set out by Sophie Lawrence of Greenbank
🍟 14 Government obesity strategies
📝 689 policies
🚑 Obesity rates double
Watch the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee session in full here: bit.ly/3UlJ4Gu
🗣️ Creating a #foodsystem that is good for the health of people and the planet is a prerequisite for a healthy financial future.
Sophie Lawrence of Greenbank giving evidence at the latest House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee session.
Watch the in full: bit.ly/3UlJ4Gu
📽️ Interesting point by Joan Walmsley🔶 during House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee evidence session, but who is representing food manufacturers?
As reported by Bite Back 70% of the 10 biggest global food businesses make money from selling mostly unhealthy food.
More here:…
📢 Our reaction to today's London #FreeSchoolMeals pledge.
As we approach the #GeneralElection we urge all national political parties and Metro Mayors to pledge that no child will be left to go hungry at school.
Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/4aQZoEY
📢 Our Executive Director Anna Taylor will be giving the keynote address at tomorrow's City Food Policy Symposium!
She'll help unpack what's needed to make our #FoodSystems more resilient and diverse through local and regional governance.
#CityFoodSym
📻 Having witnessed #foodpoverty first-hand Matthew Knight from Hillstone School describes #FreeSchoolMeals as a 'fundamental human right for all children'
Listen to his interview with Kathryn Stanczyszyn on BBC Radio WM 👇 and in full here: ➡️ bit.ly/4aCDtl0
#FeedWestMidsKids …
️ℹ 66,000 children living in poverty in the West Midlands are missing out on #FreeSchoolMeals .
🍴 We're supporting @food_foundation & #FeedTheFuture in calling for an end to the school meals postcode lottery, show your support! ➡️ bit.ly/3rlmvWK
#FeedWestMidsKids
⚠ Catering manager at Hillstone School tells BBC News (UK) school meals are now being considered a 'luxury' by parents struggling with the #CostOfLivingCrisis
66,000 eligible pupils in #WestMidlands are missing out! Please vote to extend #FreeSchoolMeals ➡️ bit.ly/3rlmvWK…
🗣️ 'We don't think it's right the price of something like first infant #formula should be entirely left to the market'
Our Executive Director Anna Taylor speaking to Rick Edwards on BBC Radio 5 Live
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4aAv6X8
#CostOfLivingCrisis …
📽️ We're holding a webinar exploring how to scale up community-led food initiatives in partnership with University of Leeds on Thursday!
It will feature speakers Gemma Bridge Rachel Oldroyd Dr Effie Papargyropoulou and Michelle Morris
Sign up here: ➡ bit.ly/3vteJfP
📻 Our Policy and Advocacy Manager Shona Goudie tells @wearefreeradio why we're taking our campaign to extend #FreeSchoolMeals to the West Midlands!
Please vote in our poll to add your support: ↩️
bit.ly/3rlmvWK
#FeedtheFuture #FeedWestMidsKids
New podcast!
bit.ly/3VQyecV
Holly Gabriel from ShareAction, tells us about the shareholder resolution that a coalition, including The Food Foundation is filing at Nestlé UK & Ireland to calls on the company to increase the amount of #healthyfood it sells.
📣 Want to learn more about our campaign to #EndChildFoodPoverty with Marcus Rashford and 30+ organisations?
Our Head of Campaigns jo ralling explains how it all started and the heartbreaking stories of children without access to #FreeSchoolMeals for the 100 Campaigns that Changed the World podcast.
'There was an authenticity to his voice': Lessons from jo ralling about working with Marcus Rashford on the successful free school meals campaigns
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✍ We've joined ShareAction & health campaigners in urging Nestlé to commit to increasing the proportion of healthier foods it sells.
Read our joint letter in the The Times and The Sunday Times ⬇️
thetimes.co.uk/article/times-…
Lord Bethell thomasinamiers The Health Foundation Kieron Boyle Anne Longfield…
📢 We're pleased the Department of Health and Social Care has finally confirmed the data being reported over the past six months on #HealthyStart uptake levels was wrong!
New figures show only 66% of eligible families in #England are benefiting from the scheme so efforts to contact eligible citizens…
DR UK policy and campaigns officer and The Food Foundation ambassador Dan White : Disability Campaigner & Author ♿️ speaks about the rising issue of food poverty in the Disabled community in the latest The Food Foundation podcast. 👇
📈 The latest data shows #disabled people are suffering much higher rates of #FoodInsecurity
In our latest #podcast we investigate the reasons why so many are struggling to afford - and access - healthy food with guest narrator Danny McCubbin
🎧 Listen in full:…
🙏 50+ organisations and experts have shared what changes they'd like to happen in our food system since we launched #NourishingtheNation : A shared vision of a brighter future!
Watch it here: ➡️ bit.ly/4c7LaAV
#MyFoodVision
