Name: Feeding Barnet – A Food Security Summit
Start: 2024-11-02T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-02T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Ark Pioneer Academy

$Feeding Barnet \u2013 A Food Security Summit$

Exploring Barnet's growing food crisis with emergency food demand surging. Join us to discuss building a sustainable, food-secure future.
About this Event

It was estimated that 153,000 food parcels were distributed to Barnet residents in 2023, and projections indicate this number will be significantly higher in 2024.

How severe is the food insecurity crisis in Barnet?
Are we facing a food emergency?
How can we build a well-managed, sustainable, food-secure Barnet for all?

Please join us to explore these questions and many more with our panel of academics, experts, and activists.

Professor Nathan Davies – UCL, Division of Medicine

Heather Buckingham – Social Change Advisor, Trussell

Abby Preston - Project Officer, Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN)

Andrew Forsey - National Director, Feeding Britain

Assistant Professor Lopa Saxena – Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University - co-author of research on "The Emergence of Social Supermarkets in Britain: Food Poverty, Food Waste and Austerity Retail."

Gary Stott - Executive Chairman, Community Shop CiC

Daniel Mermelstein – The voice of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the London Borough of Barnet where a trial is being planned

Full agenda to follow soon.

Lunch and drinks will provided.