Food policy

Our November in events: UPFs, changing policy, and a night in the Wild West! 

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November brought a mix of policy discussions, sector events and chances to connect with partners across early years and school food. We also kept up our Bring and Share lunches alongside a busy run of webinars, conferences and launches. From new evidence on ultra processed foods to developments in childcare, inspection, auto enrolment and school […]

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Our October in events: women’s resilience, food system transformation, and team reflection

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October’s events offered a mix of big picture thinking and focused discussion on specific food system challenges, tools and opportunities. The team spent time with leaders debating what real transformation in the food system looks like, discussed the interconnectedness of women’s poverty and children’s poverty, and took time to reflect as a team on where

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Working with councils to improve child health and tackle inequalities 

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Across the country, councils are working hard to make sure every child has access to good food, whether through early years support, free school meals or wider healthy weight or anti-poverty strategies. But we know how complex this can be. Food provision across childhood often sits across multiple teams, services and settings, making it hard

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Our September in events: joy, beans, and bold ideas 

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From Guernsey to Westminster, September brought fresh energy and grounded collaboration for the Bremner & Co team. This month spanned joyful conversations about childhood, the growing potential of beans, and bold ideas to transform food in the early years. Across conferences, summits, and workshops, we shared learning, built new connections, and helped shape the next

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Follow the Carrot on The Food Foundation’s ‘Pod Bites’

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Click on the link below to tune in to the latest podcast episode of The Food Foundation’s ‘Pod Bites’ featuring Sustain’s Barbara Crowther, Children’s Food Campaign Manager. In the episode, Barbara discusses new evidence from our ‘Follow the Carrot’ report, showing that expanding free school meals could generate a £600 million boost for British farmers.

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Follow the Carrot: can free school meal expansion boost the UK food and farming economy? 

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Today we’re publishing Follow the Carrot, the final report for our research that asked a simple question: could expanding free school meals also strengthen the UK food and farming economy?  Our analysis suggests the answer is yes, if expansion is matched with the right conditions for success.  Commissioned by Sustain and with support from the

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Our July in events: nutrition, equity, and local food systems

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From farmer’s fields to Westminster corridors, July’s events gave us space to connect, share ideas, and push forward conversations on food, education, and early years. We’ve gathered the highlights from a month that showed, once again, how change is built in meetings, in kitchens, in fields, and in communities.  Groundswell  2 July Lannock Farm, Hertfordshire 

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Our June in events: policy, health, and education

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Welcome to our first monthly round-up of events. Each month we will be reflecting on the events that we have attended, highlighting the important work and discussions happening around policy issues across food, education, infant feeding, sustainable procurement equity in food systems.   This month:  Food Education Mapping Project (FEMP) Conference  3 June  School of Artisan

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Hungry for Change: new report urges national action on children’s nutrition and health inequality

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A new report from the Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group (Hungry for Change) sets out a stark picture. Children growing up in the North of England face higher risks of food insecurity, poorer nutrition, and obesity from birth through adolescence. These patterns reflect structural inequalities that continue to deepen across regions and generations. The

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