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Florence joined The Food Foundation in September 2020 as Youth Engagement Project Manager. For the past 8 years she has worked with a number of food organisations in Bristol, including as a researcher into food insecurity, project managing community food initiatives and delivering food and sustainability workshops in schools. She also works with Bristol Food Network as Public Engagement coordinator on their Sustainable Food Places bid.
Before her career in food began, Florence was working as Science Communicator at Bristol’s science centre. She is particularly passionate about youth education and engagement in food systems transformation and bringing concepts to life in creative ways. She loves to cook, eat, learn about and talk about food!
Chloe joined the team in August 2020 as Global Food Systems Project Manager, leading on The Food Foundation’s international work in the run up to the UK hosting COP26 and the UN Food Systems Summit. She is now the Business Engagement Manager, working with food businesses to encourage them to improve the healthy and sustainability of their portfolios. Before joining us, Chloe worked for the National Trust within the External Affairs team. During her time there she set up a knowledge sharing network for climate change professionals called 'Fit for the Future'. She also spent a year managing an organic farm and sustainability centre.
Rebecca joined the Food Foundation in January 2020, leading on the Peas Please initiative. These days she manages our business and investor engagement team, with oversight of our work engaging food businesses, investors and policy-makers with the need to transition the UK towards a more sustainable and healthy food system. This includes our Peas Please and Plating Up Progress projects.
Rebecca is a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr) with a background in science communication, joining the Food Foundation from the Nutrition Society. In a previous life, Rebecca worked in the marketing and tech sectors before deciding to move into nutrition, obtaining a MSc in Nutrition for Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Medicine.
Rebecca is a lover of veg (peas really are her favourite vegetable), a staunch advocate for evidence-based nutrition communication, and is passionate about structural changes that make healthy and sustainable diets accessible for all.
Shona joined The Food Foundation as a Project Officer in 2019 and has worked on research, policy and advocacy across a range of projects over that time including leading our food insecurity surveys and flagship annual Broken Plate reports. She now works across the charity's policy portfolio including our children's food campaigns, food insecurity and food environments. She is a Registered Associate Nutritionist with a background in clinical nutrition who worked in dietetic departments in NHS hospitals before joining The Food Foundation.
Indu joined The Food Foundation in 2019 as part of the Rank Foundation’s Time to Shine scheme, moving into a Project Officer role in 2020. She works on the Peas Please and Plating up Progress projects. Prior to joining The Food Foundation, Indu completed a MSc in Public Health and a BSc in Human Nutrition. She is interested in reducing health inequalities, children’s health and wellbeing, and sustainable and nutritious food system/diets. Indu is also a lover of veg, having recently taken up urban gardening.
Daniel has joined The Food Foundation as Office Manager. With experience in administration and operations management across several sectors, his work focuses on supporting the team on various projects and organisation compliance.
Daniel holds a degree in Physical Education and Sport and has a passion for the promotion of education around physical activity and healthy relationships with food. He has gained his experience through supporting and managing operations and administration in both public and private sector organisations.
Isabel joined The Food Foundation as Policy Engagement Manager in April 2020 from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where she worked on domestic and EU policy development. For the past 6 years she has worked in a variety of roles across Government, spanning EU policy implementation at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, auditing the value for money of Cabinet Office programmes, and coordination of Defra’s no deal planning at the Department for Exiting the EU. She has also previously project managed large-scale digital campaigns at AgeUK.
Isabel is interested in the links between different parts of the food system, and the possibilities for really ambitious, joined-up policy thinking to address poor environmental, social, health and economic outcomes. Over the past 2 years she has completed a part-time MSc in Food Policy from City University, using her final thesis to analyse and critique the influencing strategies adopted by NGOs working on palm oil consumption in India. She is a professionally trained cook, and has recently discovered the joys of growing her own fruit and veg!
Amber joined The Food Foundation as People’s Engagement Manager in September 2019 having recently completed her PhD at the University of South Wales. The PhD looked at population fruit and vegetable requirements, and barriers and enablers to consumption. Through Participatory Action Research she was involved in developing the Peas Please initiative. For the last 10 years she also worked as a research consultant linking food production to health.
Previously, she worked in the community food movement in Wales, helping to establish allotments and community orchards. Before this she spent 5 years working in communities in Glasgow to improve diets and in 2004 gained an MSc, with distinction, in Public Health Nutrition from the University of Glasgow.
She is incredibly positive about vegetables and passionate about working with people to solve the problems of health inequality.
Will is leading our Plating Up Progress work on food industry metrics for sustainable and healthy diets and the multi-partner initiative to further their uptake with investors and businesses.
He has spent the last 6 years in Scandinavia, integrating food sustainability metrics into business practices in the food industry, working with a range of operators including contract caterers, hotels, independent restaurants and retailers. This work primarily involved using research data to evidence climate change contributions, food waste impacts and the balance between servings of plant-based and animal-based products in foodservice.
Prior to that he studied Green Economy at Bournemouth University, where his MSc focused on the development of “footprint tools” for use in the food industry. He has a diverse work background in data analysis, business consultancy, social enterprise initiatives around food and social impact, and in the restaurant industry.
Jo joined The Food Foundation as Head of Communications in April 2018. Jo is passionate Media & Campaigns Executive specialising consumer health and public advocacy campaigns with over 20 years’ experience working across all areas of Broadcast, Digital and Print Media.
In the past 11 years Jo has held leadership positions in the Jamie Oliver Group driving growth for the media group, overseeing all television production and distribution of over 300 hours of programming, creating the global digital strategy and setting up the hugely successful Multi Channel Network Food and Drinks Tube. She launched the SUGAR SMART campaign for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation and played a pivotal role in delivering the UK and global advocacy campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of sugar to long term public health and lobbying the Government to urgently introduce a Childhood Obesity Strategy and Sugar Tax.
In October 2017 Jo launched RISING TIDE FILMS, an Independent Production Company based in Brighton and set up the Brighton Production Hub to connect production talent and broadcasters across the city.
