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Caroline is a mum to three children and takes part in a lot of our work, bringing warmth, creativity and lived experience to everything she does while managing serious health issues. She also home-schools her youngest child, who has learning difficulties and ASD, and balances this with a wide range of creative passions including baking, crafts and DIY. As a child, she cared for her ill parent and experienced significant food insecurity. Caroline is passionate about creating change, especially for families facing similar challenges.

Holly joined The Food Foundation in June 2025 as Research Lead. Previously, she worked for eight years as a Sustainability Consultant to the food industry, most recently at 3Keel, and has expertise on food supply chains and tackling the social and environmental issues that exist within them. Holly led the Retailer Cocoa Collaboration, a group of eleven European retailers on tackling human rights abuses and deforestation in cocoa supply chains in West Africa. She has also worked for the NGO Ecologistas en Accion in Seville, setting up urban farming programmes, such as allotments in local schools. Holly holds a postgraduate degree in Food Security from Edinburgh University, and an Undergraduate degree in European Social and Political Studies from University College London.

I’ve seen how access to food shapes every part of a young person’s life, from personal wellbeing to health and educational outcomes. My interest in advocacy started from lived experience, noticing the quiet but constant ways that food insecurity affects opportunity. Alongside wider work in policy and youth leadership, I want to help centre young voices in conversations that often overlook them. This role is a chance to push for a fairer system: one where healthy food isn’t a luxury, but a baseline.