Food ambassadors Dev and Asha report on a project which provides quality food boxes and early years cooking skills in community food clubs

This week the Food Foundation's food ambassadors Dev and Asha report from Bristol on the weekly food club which brings early years education and food&nbsp;surplus&nbsp;together to provide local families with quality food boxes and a community that cares about what we eat.

Bristol Food Club

The Rastafari Movement UK finds purpose in a pandemic

Sister Marcia and Sister Stella of the Rastafari Movement UK are proud to be able to use their Rasta creed to feed the most vulnerable in their community in South London. By gathering surplus organic fruit and veg from their members’ allotments, they deliver ital, the rasta word for nutrition, to those who can barely afford to feed their families throughout the pandemic.

Ital: Rasta food and friendship for Lambeth's poorest families

Culturally appropriate food parcels at Brighton's minority ethnic food bank

When refugees and migrants were plunged into food insecurity at the start of the pandemic, losing zero hour contracts and part time jobs, Brighton’s Minority Ethnic Community Partnership (BMECP) became much more than a food bank with its culturally appropriate foods and friendship.&nbsp;

Rice, peas and plantain

A members' food club to change the food system

Sixty nine-year-old food campaigner, Sharon Goodyer shows us how her private members' food club in Margate could radically change the food system and enable the poorest to afford to cook and eat healthy, delicious food every day of the week.&nbsp;

Our Kitchen on the Isle of Thanet

How learning to cook can save holiday hunger

This week The Food Foundation's young ambassadors Shane and Anna report from Portadown and the summer Cook It course, a 4-week cookery programme which supports members of immigrant communities and kids on free school meals.&nbsp;

Cook It!

The South London community store that is so much more than a food bank.

This week, Food Foundation's ambassadors Rabiya and Saffy tell the story of The Evelyn Community store in Lewisham and hear from three single parents and their children who have found a lifeline in this local community centre.

Evelyn Community Store

The Food Foundation ambassadors report from the front line of food poverty

Jani, Beth and Jacob are among the Food Foundation young ambassadors reporting from the front line of food poverty. Here they tell how COVID-19 has affected the most vulnerable groups in British society, from access to food and free school meal vouchers to the threat of holiday hunger and food insecurity for thousands of children this summer.

Lockdown Life

An introduction to some of the Food Foundation ambassadors on the series ahead

Right2Food: The Pilot

Stories from the front line of food poverty by the Food Foundation Ambassadors 

Right2Food is the podcast about food poverty brought to you by the people who really know what it means to be hungry in Britain in the 21st century. Each week two young food ambassadors from The Food Foundation, a charity that tackles the growing challenges facing the UK’s food, reveal the gaps in the food system revealed by COVID. Producer: Gilly Smith for the <a href="https://foodfoundation.org.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Food Foundation</a>

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