
Peas Please
@peaspleaseuk
The Peas Please initiative has a simple mission: to make it easier for everyone in the UK to eat more veg, by bringing actors across the food system together.
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https://foodfoundation.org.uk/peasplease/ 30-01-2020 17:04:11
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📽️ Our Food Ambassadors are joining calls for policymakers to create a better food system for all as we approach the #GeneralElection This is what Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters from #Kent would like to see change 👇 More info: tinyurl.com/mdhhhcx6 #NourishingTheNation #MyFoodVision

📢 11 million adults and children are struggling to eat well and having to compromise their health to save money due to the #CostOfLivingCrisis Our Policy and Advocacy Manager Shona Goudie explains more findings from our #FoodInsecurity Tracker in our latest #podcast 🎧




📢 Ahead of tomorrow's #SpringBudget we'd like to see policy changes in four key areas: 1⃣ Expanding NHS Healthy Start Scheme eligibility, increasing uptake/raising the value of the digital card. 2⃣ Making #FreeSchoolMeals available to all children from households on





🗣️ 'The #Budget2024 will do nothing to alleviate the sense of despair in council estates up and down the country' Our Food Ambassador Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters speaking to Anna Cookson on BBC Kent Listen in full: tinyurl.com/2cym5hxr #FoodisCare #foodinsecurity

👏 We agree with Dr Vicky Sibson at House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee the #HealthyStart scheme should be improved! We'd like to see Govt measures to expand eligibility, boost uptake rates and an increase in the value of the digital card. Watch her evidence: ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc7xunvt

🗣️ 'Research shows more than 400 schools have upwards of 20 fast food takeaways within a 400-metre radius' Georgie Branch from School Food Matters explaining why our #foodenvironment is so important to #childhealth and why #FreeSchoolMeals should be expanded! Watch in full:

📽 Our latest webinar exploring the principles of #foodjustice in partnership with Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and Bham City Council is on Wednesday (March 13)! It will focus on embedding food justice in urban food strategies and activism with perspectives from the Asia and the Pacific. Sign up



📢 Did this week's spring #Budget do enough to help families struggling with the #CostOfLivingCrisis? Our Head of Policy and Advocacy Hannah Brinsden examines the key points for our latest #podcast 🎧 Listen in full here: bit.ly/3T9Yvjn


📽️ TV chef and food campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall makes a compelling case for why healthy food needs to be affordable and accessible to everyone! Watch him question Health Secretary Victoria Atkins on Laura Kuenssberg 👇 and in full here: ↩️ tinyurl.com/492b9e2p Jamie Oliver Obesity Health Alliance - Account Inactive

📢 Our Executive Director Anna Taylor is speaking at this evening's City Food and Drink Lecture She will discuss how we can make it possible for everyone in Britain to eat well at a time of record levels of #foodpoverty and threats to the food system from #climatechange 👇
