Food Foundation
Marcus Rashford MBE and Child Food Poverty Taskforce launch website to support UK families over Christmas
The launch of www.endchildfoodpoverty.org coincides with the transmission of a new BBC documentary which has been following Rashford’s campaigning efforts to tackle child food poverty.
UK food businesses serve 162 million extra veg portions as a result of Peas Please initiative
Peas Please is a multi-stakeholder project that works with businesses, civil society and policy makers across the UK to make it easier for people to access vegetables.
Public health directors urge UK government to improve Healthy Start scheme
The Healthy Start scheme provides pregnant women and low-income families with children under 4 with free vitamins and food vouchers to purchase vegetables, fruit, pulses and milk.
UK food system needs fundamental changes to improve nation’s health
The Food Foundation’s Broken Plate report lays bare the UK’s food system and paints some rather grim statistics on our future generation’s life chances.
UK veg box sales soar
New data from the Food Foundation shows that UK veg box sales have increased by 111% in the six weeks between the end of February 2020 and mid-April 2020, but businesses are now calling for support in the form of small government grants so they can scale up to meet demand.