Food for Thought Talks

Food for Thought – The talk series about what we eat Doors open from 6.30pm, talks will run 7pm-8pm. The Food Museum presents the third series of Food for Thought, running alongside its School Dinners exhibition. This series takes a closer look at the history, evolution and lived experience of school food. Featuring dinner ladies and campaigners, each talk explores how school dinners came to be, the forces that shaped them, and what their story reveals about broader attitudes to children, nutrition and public life. £12 – talk Food for Thought Talks Jo Ralling, The Food Foundation: Changing Food, Changing Lives Thursday 25 June The Food Foundation has become one of the UK’s most influential voices on children’s nutrition, food insecurity and the affordability of healthy diets. In this talk, Jo Ralling will discuss the organisation’s evidence-based approach to driving policy change – from monitoring the cost of the national food basket to advocating for fairer food systems. Central to the conversation is the Foundation’s landmark collaboration with Marcus Rashford, which transformed public support for expanding free school meals and triggered national attention on child hunger. We will examine how strategic campaigning can influence government action and what must happen next to secure long-term, systemic change. Jo is a Media and Campaign Executive with over 20 years of experience leading award-winning environmental, health, and poverty campaigns.