The Food Foundation

🗣️ 'No child should grow up hungry or excluded due to circumstances beyond their control' - Food Ambassador Yusuf

This is why 100+ organisations, including supermarkets and food businesses, are campaigning for a Good Food Bill!

🔗 bit.ly/4rJWU3R

✨ A Good Food Bill represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform our food system!

That's why 100+ organisations including @green-alliance.org.uk and @sustainweb.org are supporting the campaign, says our Executive Director Anna Taylor.

🎧 Learn more: bit.ly/3MXVcN0

Food Foundation Chair job advert

📢 We're looking for a Chair to lead our campaign work to ensure everyone in the UK can access healthy and sustainable food!

This is a high-profile role for a respected leader with strong political insight, a commitment to social justice and passion for healthier food systems.

🔗 shorturl.at/06YZZ

What's driving better food outcomes in York and North Yorkshire? Citizen-led What Works in York and North Yorkshire report published by Food Foundation and Food Farming and Countryside Commission

Yorkshire leading the way on food 💡

Today, a new film and report from the second ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ in 📍York and North #Yorkshire is out. Citizens heard from leaders across the food system and have shared their findings ➡️ foodfoundation.org.uk/news/what-wo...

#foodsystems #healthyfood

🗣📢 More than 100 organisations, including supermarkets, food businesses and investors are calling for the introduction of a Good Food Bill!

They're warning the government our failing food system is a threat to national security and public health.

Here's why: ➡️ bit.ly/4rJWU3R

These businesses are making a BANG 💥

We're thrilled to announce brand new Keen Bean pledgers - businesses who are committing to get more beans on plates. @compassgroupplc.bsky.social @compassgroupuki.bsky.social

💥 Interested? Visit the BANG IN SOME BEANS page on our website!

#BangInSomeBeans

📢 Episode One of our Bang in Some Beans podcast series is live!

Presented by chef and author Melissa Hemsley, it features vegan cook Ian Theasby of BOSH! and Dr Jo Lunn of Waitrose.

🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4rCyn0C

Rising food prices

📉 Latest Office for National Statistics statistics show food inflation has fallen - so why are so many families still cutting back on fresh food?

We've identified three key reasons why food prices remain higher than before the start of the cost of living crisis.

🔗 bit.ly/3OGEXV8

📢🚀 We're launching a podcast series with TV chef and author Melissa Hemsley tomorrow!

From supermarkets and farming to sport, gut health, mental wellbeing and hormonal health, it'll explore the many benefits of beans and challenge the way the UK views them.

🎧 Trailer here: bit.ly/4u8uyCb

📢 Changes have been made to how the government classifies 'healthy' and 'less healthy' food and drinks.

This could have a wide-ranging consequences, as Kat Jenner of @obesityalliance.bsky.social explains in our latest podcast.

🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3OiIskG
@actionsaltsugar.bsky.social

Passion 🔥 Passion for food, for people, livelihoods and ecosystems. That is what citizens investigating local food systems heard in 📍#Cornwall.

Farmers and fishers are sustaining communities, but local food initiatives need more support.

🦪 Read more: foodfoundation.org.uk/news/what-ca...

Impact on Urban Health school food pic

⚠️ Around 215,000 children not getting the Free School Meals they're entitled to.

Research from Fix Our Food, @york.ac.uk and Bremner & Co explains why: ➡️ bit.ly/4rqfqyf

Anna Taylor speaks at a podium, gesturing with one hand while wearing a dark dress and an orange lanyard with a conference badge.

Save the date: Tuesday 19th May 2026 16:00- 17:30 at the @exeter.ac.uk Streatham campus or online.

An @exeterfood.bsky.social seminar with Anna Taylor, Exec Director of @foodfoundation.bsky.social - Ambitions for the National Food Strategy.

Get updates: forms.office.com/e/7FEYZtV025

#FoodStudies

💥 NEW film & report: What can government learn from Cornwall’s food system?

Today, we are publishing initial findings from a citizen-led investigation into local success stories and challenges in 📍Cornwall's food system.

🔗 foodfoundation.org.uk/news/what-ca...

#foodsystems #healthyfood #cornwall

Vegetarian Society graphic

We're supporting calls for words such as 'burger’ and 'sausage' to continue to be allowed on plant-based products!

So we joined @vegsoc.bsky.social and 12+ food companies in writing to @ec.europa.eu to urge a rethink on a proposed ban.

🔗 shorturl.at/0Odi9

📢 New research reveals what works in school food!

To unpack the findings check out our latest podcast with experts from @unibirmingham.bsky.social @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social and Monmouthshire County Council.

🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4bONsXV

Mike Rayner and Anna Taylor

🗣️ 'A pie chart sitting on an NHS website doesn't feel like it is really leveraging the power it ought to have in terms of steering policy'

Our Executive Director Anna Taylor on the government's dietary guidelines.

Watch a fascinating webinar with @ox.ac.uk Prof Mike Rayner here: ➡️ bit.ly/3Mr8YYg

We know the barriers to accessing healthy food, we know people don't eat enough fibre, now we need action. BEANS are the perfect vehicle for change!

Rushda, Jo & Nirvani bring powerful testimonies about access to #fibre-rich food & why #beans are worth celebrating

#FibreFebruary #BangInSomeBeans

Why are we so obsessed with beans? 🤩

Rebecca Tobi explains why #beans are a win-win-win for our health, budgets and planet, and shares how we are partnering with businesses through the #BangInSomeBeans campaign - learn more on on our website! 💥🫘

#FibreFebruary #WorldPulsesDay #WorldPulsesDay2026

Today on World Pulses Day, we are shouting it from the rooftops (and the kitchen): #BANGINSOMEBEANS! 💥

Thomasina Miers, @hughfw.bsky.social & Ramona Hazan join the bean brigade alongside Food Ambassadors Barbara, Ryan, Wena, Magdalena & more 🌱

#FibreFebruary #WorldPulsesDay2026 #WorldPulsesDay

We're delighted the Food Ambassadors were announced as finalists last week for an APPG on School Food award for their work campaigning for free #schoolmeals & better #schoolfood.

Congratulations to the winners -
@proveguk.bsky.social!

#childrenshealth @provegint.bsky.social

Imagine a school lunch that helps every child thrive.

Young campaigners and Emma Thompson are calling for change, because every child deserves a good lunch.

▶️ Watch the full animation: youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A

🌈 Join the movement: foodfoundation.org.uk/joinschoolfo...

#schoolfood #childrenshealth

Good gut vibes only 🫘

#FibreFebruary is the perfect time to #BanginSomeBeans!

Our very own Chloe MacKean tells us about the campaign to double UK bean consumption, and how fibre is so essential for our health.

Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/1EHV...

#beans

"There's contradictory messages, just illogical messages. How can we cut down on saturated fat and at the same time eat more beef and dairy?" - Mike Rayner @ox.ac.uk

🔴 Mike spoke with Anna Taylor about the USA's controversial new dietary guidelines - watch now: youtu.be/uO0jkEe4N6c

#rfkjr

School food is having a moment. Thank you to @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social @thegrocer.bsky.social @westonmercury.bsky.social @northsomersettimes.bsky.social for covering this important story for #childrenshealth 🍽️🌈

🎥 Hundreds have signed up to Thursday's webinar discussing sweeping changes to the USA's dietary guidelines!

Don't miss your chance to hear our Executive Director Anna Taylor speaking with @ox.ac.uk Prof Mike Rayner about the implications and relevance to the UK.

🔗 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Ultra-processed. Cheap. Low in goodness.

Too many children are still served unhealthy food at school.

Watch our animation featuring Emma Thompson and young campaigners to see the impact and join the call to improve #schoolfood standards 🍽️🌈

🎬 Watch the animation → youtu.be/DEAaBcKx23A

📢 Could going digital lock citizens out of food assistance?

Postdoctoral researcher Iris Lim of @soasuni.bsky.social explores the latest evidence in our podcast.

🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/45B5cSO

Did you catch chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and young food activist Dev Sharma on BBC Radio 4 yesterday? 🫘🫘🫘 Talking all about beans 😍

Tune in to @hughfw.bsky.social's fibre series ➡️ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

💥 #BangInSomeBeans 💥

"Blaming parents for their kids eating unhealthy food is like blaming drivers for speeding when the roads they are driving on are designed like race tracks" 🏎️🚨

"Bad diets aren't a choice, they are an economic outcome" - Anna Taylor, our Executive Director speaking at #SustainableFoods2026