Resources
This page brings together a curated collection of organisations, reports, news articles, and local initiatives related to food, food policy, and food insecurity in the UK. Whether you’re a resident, researcher, practitioner, or policymaker, these resources offer insight into the current challenges and responses shaping our food system.
Note: Organisations marked with a ★ indicate that the Food Partnership is a member of or has links with them.
Relevant Organisations for Food, Food Policy, Food Insecurity
- Caroline Walker Trust – “Improving public health through good food.”
- Feeding Britain ★ – Tackles hunger and food insecurity.
- Food Ethics Council – Independent advice on food and farming ethics.
- Food Foundation ★ – Builds a sustainable food system for public health.
- IFAN – Independent Food Aid Network – Advocates for a UK without charitable food aid.
- Incredible Edible ★ – Community-led food-growing movement.
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) – Aims to end UK poverty and support flourishing communities.
- Sustain ★ – Alliance for better food, farming, and fishing systems.
- Sustainable Food Places ★ – Supports local food partnerships across the UK.
Food Poverty / Insecurity Reports
- Cost of Living and Poverty Jan 2026 – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Food Insecurity Jan 2026 – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Hunger in the UK Report 2025 – Trussell
- The Broken Plate 2023 – Food Foundation – Analysis of the UK food system and public health.
Food Aid Organisations
- Felix Project ★ – Distributes surplus food to London communities.
- Trussell ★ – UK anti-poverty charity and network of independent food banks working to end the need for emergency food.
- FareShare – Surplus food redistribution network.
Guardian Articles (2023–26)
The Guardian covers food poverty and related issues more than other UK national newspapers.
- UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report – Aug 2026
- Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds – July 26
- Britain ‘sleepwalking into a food crisis’ without urgent action, experts say – May 2026
- Affordable fresh food is the recipe for a healthy Britain – May 2026
- ‘Tinderbox’ UK may be one shock away from food riots, experts say – Feb 2026
- Could urban farming feed the world? – Nov 2025
- Failure to tackle dependence on food banks in UK driving public discontent – Sept 2025
- Food insecurity rising in UK because of climate breakdown, Defra report finds – Dec 2024
- 15% of UK households went hungry last month – Feb 2024
- 32 harmful effects of ultra-processed food – Feb 2024
- Britain’s hunger and malnutrition crisis – Dec 2023
- Trussell Trust’s growth to 1300 food banks – Dec 2023
- Children raised under austerity shorter – Jun 2023
- Feeding people is government’s job – May 2023
- Marmot: Austerity’s impact on children – Jun 2023
- UN: UK poverty levels not acceptable – Nov 2023
- US report warns on ultra-processed food – Oct 2023
- Food system as leading cause of early death – Oct 2023
- Junk food and child health – 2016
- UK children in food poverty doubles – Mar 2023
- Benefits fall £140 short of minimum living cost – Feb 2023
What Are Other Local Authorities Doing?
- Coventry Marmot Review: “Learn from us” – Jan 2024
- Coventry Marmot City – Official site
- Birmingham Food Revolution – Sara Pullen (video)
- Wales Food Manifesto
- A Menu for Change – Nourish Scotland
Barnet Post Articles
- New Barnet allotment supports Chipping Barnet Foodbank – August 2026
- Less money, more problems: the growing challenge facing a Barnet foodbank – October 2025
- Where would we be without volunteers? – Mar 2024
- Barnet Food Banks: Nine crates of aubergines – Jun 2023
- Cooking a meal has become a luxury – Jun 2023
Podcasts
- A Day in the Life of a School Catering Manager
- Stories of Food and Poverty
- The Food Programme
- ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system – podcast