A new Enterprise Manager has been appointed to manage one of Cardiff’s most well-established farmers’ markets. Carol Adams was recently appointed as Enterprise Manager at Riverside Real Food; the creators of Cardiff’s original farmers’ market which pops up weekly on the Taff embankment (opposite the Principality Stadium). The market (which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary) […]
We are pleased to announce that Food Cardiff has a new Sustainable Food City Co-ordinator; Pearl Costello. The Sustainable Food City Co-ordinator is responsible for bringing together organisations working on sustainable food projects across the city, to share best practice and work together to transform the city’s food system across 6 key areas: Promoting healthy […]
Eat Them To Defeat Them is a radical new national advertising campaign on ITV Wales that aims to inspire children and young people to eat more healthily and help tackle rising childhood obesity. Despite past health campaigns attempting to increase our veg consumption, less than a third of children in Wales still aren’t eating a […]
Cardiff’s multi-award winning school holiday enrichment programme (SHEP), Food and Fun has picked up its ninth award at the renowned 2018 Foodservice Catey Awards. Awarded top prize in the Corporate and Social Responsibility category, the multiagency initiative which aims to reduce the isolation and hunger experienced by families in the school holidays, was described as […]
Peas Please is a campaign that is coordinated by partner organisations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and aims to bring together business and brands from across the food system to secure commitments to improve the availability, affordability and quality of the veg offered in supermarkets, shops, schools, pubs, fast food outlets and beyond. […]
Food Cardiff, in conjunction with Cardiff and Vale Local Public Health Team, has submitted a response to Welsh Government’s consultation on their proposal to change the eligibility criteria for free school meals under Universal Credit. We are extremely concerned that 55,000 children living in poverty in Wales will continue to miss out on a free […]
The Poetry Society, Oxfam, and End Hunger UK have developed an anthology of poetry written to address the mounting issue of food poverty in the UK. Nine poems, written by young people from across the UK, were submitted to a competition that formed a part of End Hunger UK’s touring of the Behind Closed Doors […]
Findings strengthen calls for a national measurement of food insecurity and the need for further investigation into children’s access to healthy food in the UK New analysis “Affordability of the Eatwell Guide” from independent think tank The Food Foundation finds that around 3.7 million children in the UK are part of families who earn less […]
