UK food poverty with Sarah Bentley

Our guest on this episode is Sarah Bentley, the founder of Made In Hackney - a vegan community cookery school and charity. We discuss the food poverty crisis in the UK, what can be done about it and how they’ve embedded anti-racism work in the charity. If you’d like to support or make a donation to Made In Hackney to help them continue to provide free community meals during the COVID-19 crisis, please visit their website at: www.madeinhackney.org 

Links to information mentioned in this episode: 

https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/SoH-Interim-Report-Final-2.pdf

http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/marmot-review-10-years-on 

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/new-evidence-of-child-food-insecurity-in-the-uk/

https://endchildfoodpoverty.org

https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l126.full

https://www.bigissue.com/latest/food-poverty-in-the-uk-the-causes-figures-and-solutions/

https://www.bigissue.com/latest/covid-19-crisis-is-driving-food-poverty-says-government-watchdog/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35873541 

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/16/food-poverty-millions-children-uk-not-enough-to-eat https://cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/news-listings/children-growing-poverty-endure-hunger-and-shame