All Food poverty articles
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Comment & OpinionHealthy Start 2.0: Retailers are ready, but is the government?
Supermarkets, understandably, want assurances that they will not be left to deal with families humiliated at the till because their vouchers don’t work
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NewsKFC hits five million meals donation with FareShare
Surplus chicken from KFC restaurants is frozen and redistributed to more than 1,300 charity partners nationwide
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Comment & OpinionThe Lunch They Deserve: powerful film highlights kids’ diet deficiencies
The government doesn’t monitor what’s happening in the school food system, which, says narrator Emma Thompson, ‘means no one is officially checking the quality of the meals served’
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy are supermarket bins ending up full of in-date edible food?
A TikTok activist is embarrassing supermarkets with videos of store bins filled with in-date food. What’s going on, and what needs to change?
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NewsUK at ‘high risk’ from ecosystem collapse and biodiversity loss
The government report warned ecosystem degradation was ’occurring across all regions’, placing the UK’s self-sufficiency at risk
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Comment & OpinionWorking families don’t need growth. They need affordable food, close to home
When budgets tighten, families don’t abandon healthy eating intentionally – they know it’s bad for their health, but it is unavoidable in the moment, says Mark Game, founder of The Bread & Butter Thing
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NewsHealthy food pilots planned for deprived areas to tackle obesity
A series of interventions is being lined up by government in a bid to focus the food strategy on areas with the highest levels of obesity
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NewsSupermarkets launch new £2m Birmingham surplus hub in King Charles’ war on food poverty
The Sir Peter Rigby Coronation Food Hub, in Gravelly Park, Birmingham, opened this week and is aiming to redistribute more than seven million meals across the West Midlands annually
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Comment & OpinionIt’s the most wasteful time of year: how to help cut festive food waste
Jenny Costa of Rubies in the Rubble is encouraging everyone across our industry to help narrow the gap between abundance and need
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NewsScottish ministers accused of sinking their own flagship Good Food Nation strategy
Environmental and health groups are up in arms at the changes to the strategy
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Comment & OpinionThere is an alternative to the UK’s ‘broken’ food system
Social supermarkets and community pantries can help to rebuild a more equitable and functional food system, says Gary Stott, executive chair of Community Shop
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NewsKing’s Coronation Food Project initiative delivers 5,000 tonnes of food
The King will meet chief executives and leaders from the food industry and food rescue charities today to recognise their achievements
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Comment & OpinionFood Foundation’s children’s nutrition podcast lays bare a devastating issue
The Food Foundation’s Early Years series takes a hard look at the reality for many families struggling to afford food
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NewsSupermarkets and celeb chefs back new Bang in Some Beans campaign
It comes against a backdrop of figures showing just 4% of adults eat enough fibre and only 17% of adults eat their 5 a day
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NewsSysco and Meals & More call for government support over child food poverty crisis
The pair partnered to brief parliamentarians on the growing child food poverty crisis facing the UK
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NewsFood poverty report calls for a ‘junk food’ tax to subsidise healthy diets
The proposal comes in a report today by the Food Foundation, which finds one in seven households with children are struggling to afford food
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NewsThe Felix Project adds apple farm to growing food rescue list
London’s largest food distribution charity started picking apples from Hazel Street Farm in Kent, which donated the orchards as the crop became less financially viable
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NewsPasta Evangelists partners with world hunger charity
The donations will help fund programmes that support families facing food and nutritional insecurity nationwide
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Comment & OpinionUse the festive season to give back and reflect your brand’s values
With the festive season fast approaching, budgets to set, plans to sign off, and personal commitments stacking up, it’s easy to race through these last months without taking the time to end the year well
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Comment & OpinionHygiene poverty is a hidden crisis for too many children
One in 10 children have missed school because they lacked essentials like clean clothes or period products, says Dan Howell, MD at Kimberly-Clark UK&I