Levelling Up: Views from the streets of Barrow

Season 7, Ep. 1

This week, we’re looking at Levelling Up, the Government's plan to equal out the differences between north and south to help towns recover from decades of poverty. Asha, one of The Food Foundation's teenage ambassadors, finds out what that means her to home town of Barrow-in-Furness on the North West coast.

Once known as the Chicago of England, Barrow was the largest iron and steel producer in the world and is still an important shipyard. Asha finds out what the issues are, and finds some inspiring projects already being supported by local government. Could the closed down shops in hollowed out high streets become food hubs in a new vision of food as central to community life?

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