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20. Pod Bites: Plant-based food justice
08:05||Season 12, Ep. 20Sarah 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.
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21. Pod Bites: Christmas on a shoestring
05:53||Season 12, Ep. 21Alicia 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.
19. Pod Bites: Child Poverty - are we failing?
10:21||Season 12, Ep. 19Hannah 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.
18. Pod Bites: What's going on in our food industry?
16:03||Season 12, Ep. 18Rebecca 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.
17. Pod Bites: The Budget and food bills
11:47||Season 12, Ep. 17Hannah 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.
16. Pod Bites: Closing the gaps in NHS Healthy Start
07:37||Season 12, Ep. 16This 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.
15. Pod Bites: Will the PM deliver on school food?
07:24||Season 12, Ep. 15In 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.
