Food security and production
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Blog: Strengthening local food supply chains post Covid-19
As a nation we are reliant on a global web of producers, processors, distributors, and retailers to put food on our tables. The risk in such complexity recently became a...
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Covid-19 Action Fund winner: food supply
PageThe Covid-19 Action Fund provides grants for Churchill Fellows to increase their vital contribution to the national effort against Covid-19. Hundreds of pandemic...
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News: Community food bank created from local sports club
News | 15 May 2020 |A pioneering community sports club set up by Churchill Fellow Tim Holtam (CF 2018) has transformed itself into a food bank and social hub that now serves over 500 people...
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Blog: Ten things Covid-19 has taught us about food
Food supply has emerged as a major issue during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supermarkets and food banks have struggled to keep up with demand, causing panic-buying across the...
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News: Churchill Fellows supporting children who are missing out on free school meals
News | 5 May 2020 |The World Food Programme and UNICEF have released a statement urging national governments to prevent devastating nutrition and health consequences for the 370 million...
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Blog: How meals on wheels can improve food security during the lockdown
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds in the UK, food security has emerged as a major problem. Many supermarkets are struggling to keep up with demand and food banks are...
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Blog: Hungry for more: scaling up community food enterprises for public benefit
Many pressing problems in our country today relate to food production and consumption: half of adults are overweight and obese; healthy food is three times more...
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Taking an enterprising approach to meals on wheels
Simon Shaw, a food programme coordinator from London, travelled to France, Italy and South Korea to research social enterprises and other initiatives that support older...
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Blog: Kings of the Yukon - an Alaskan river journey
In 2013 I received a Churchill Fellowship to travel through Alaska, exploring stories around climate change and resource use. I travelled widely in those eight weeks and...
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Breakfast clubs in schools
Lynne Hindmarch, a breakfast club manager from Newcastle upon Tyne, travelled to Canada and the USA to research best practice in school breakfast clubs.
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Food Poverty Fellows' Story Collection
Read more about some of our Fellows' achievements in this area.
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Bryce Evans' Story
Bryce Evans travelled to Peru in 2014 to learn about community kitchens.
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Seb Mayfield’s Story
Story | By Seb Mayfield | Involving Charitable Food Providers in Advocacy Efforts – Lessons from Canada | 2015 | Involving Charitable Food Providers in Advocacy Efforts - Lessons from Canada | 2015Seb Mayfield travelled to Canada in 2015 to spend time with emergency food aid providers.
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Africa: beekeeping as a tool for sustainable health and development
Hugo Fearnley, Director of the Apiceutical Research Centre, travelled to several countries in Africa to investigate beekeeping as a tool for sustainable health and...
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Learning lessons from America's surplus food redistribution infrastructure
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Farming and The City: Using an Urban Landscape to Sustainably Localise the Food System
Hannah Norman, an Organic Grower and Sustainable Farming Advocate from Cardiff, travelled to the USA to explore local organic food systems to benefit the urban community.
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The role of community seed banks in protecting seed diversity
Charlotte Dove, a garden project coordinator from Southwark, will be travelling to Canada and the USA to find out about the role of community seed banks in protecting...
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Involving Charitable Food Providers in Advocacy Efforts – Lessons from Canada
Seb Mayfield, a community food expert from Winchester in Hampshire, travelling to Canada to investigate how emergency food providers in Canada are going beyond the...