FAWN brings academics, trade unionists, community campaigners to understand the connections between structural food inequality and working conditions in the UK.

Joined February 2023
13 Photos and videos
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Please come along to participate and contribute to work of the Right of Food Commission in Glasgow’s Renfield Centre on the 11th June at 6pm You can register here eventbrite.co.uk/e/right-to-… Please Share #HungerIsAPoliticalChoice
15
10
7,707
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Today, the UK Right To Food Commission has written to the Prime Minister raising urgent concerns over rising food insecurity, increasing food inflation and reports of potential dynamic pricing for food in supermarkets. With 14 million people across the UK already living with food insecurity, we are calling for immediate action to protect families struggling to afford basic essentials. Our message is clear: * Food is a human right, not a luxury. * Dynamic pricing for food must never be introduced. * Household incomes must rise for those most at risk. * Support for community food hubs and grassroots organisations must be strengthened. * Excessive profiteering while families go hungry cannot continue. The evidence gathered by the Commission across Liverpool, Newcastle, Aberdare, Cardiff and Belfast shows that food insecurity is driving health inequalities, damaging life opportunities and deepening poverty in communities across the country. We urge the Government to act now. #RightToFood
10
172
257
7,297
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Join us in Aberdare this Thursday, March 26, 4-6pm at St Elvan’s for our next Right To Food Commission #CommunityAssembly. Share your experiences of food insecurity and your insights to shape our roadmap to #RightToFood legislation by 2035. #UKCommission #Aberdare #CynonValley #EndHunger #LivedExperience #HungerIsAPoliticalChoice Register: bit.ly/4bJoVSu Learn more: bit.ly/4cJR91u Get involved: bit.ly/4sR7iqN
6
6
3,589
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Hunger is trade union issue. We must take collective action✊ Our GS, @GawainLittle, will be joining @IanByrneMP, @sarahwoolley01, @FranHeathcote & others in an online rally to tackle food poverty. Monday 23 Feb | 6:30pm 🚩Join us: bit.ly/therighttofood #RightToFood #GFTU
8
7
211
Great piece from @sarahwoolley01 & @IanByrneMP about @BFAWUOfficial recent survey/report and why they have set up a right to food commission To learn more about the Right to Food Commission please visit ianbyrne.org/rtfcommission. To submit evidence visit ianbyrne.org/rtfcommission-c…
Austerity on the table: Britain’s food workers are being driven into hunger, say SARAH WOOLLEY and IAN BYRNE MP morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
1
2
98
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Please help to show and share yr support for the #RightToFood UK Commission
2
2
69
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
From @IanByrneMP The Right To Food UK Commission, announced in September 2025, will interrogate and report on the scale and scope of food poverty and hunger in the UK today. The Commission will be based out of the UK Parliament and take evidence from around the UK. It has been established jointly by the Right To Food Campaign, which is led in Parliament by Ian Byrne MP for Liverpool West Derby, the University of Westminster, the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) and the Food and Work Network.
2
3
115
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Proud to be working on the launch of this today with the @IanByrneMP @FoodandWorkNet1 @BFAWUOfficial and the Right to Food campaign ✊✊✊
5
13
1,704
We are proud to be playing our part in the Right To Food UK Commission launching in Parliament on Monday No one should be going hungry in the UK in 2025. We will deliver a roadmap for #RightToFood legislation that ends hunger. More info at: ianbyrne.org/rtfcommission
8
8
939
These shocking figures lay out clearly the link between in-work poverty and food insecurity We need a #righttofood but an end to the systemic reasons why people are feeling insecure about food in the first place
19 Nov 2024
16m Britons (24% of the population) live in poverty. 10m live in families in full-time work. 5.2m children live in poverty (36%). Austerity, low wages, benefits, pension take toll. Destroy lives. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. theguardian.com/society/2024…
5
1
317
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Great to read how @MayorofLondon Universal Free School Meals in London helps families financially & improves health, wellbeing & concentration levels of children. Exactly why Universal Free School Meals are a key ask of our national #RightToFood campaign. ianbyrne.org/righttofood
Universal free primary school meals in London have helped boost the health and wellbeing of families - new report on @MayorofLondon's initiative. Why they should be provided in all schools, all ages, across all Britain. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/f…
3
8
29
3,254
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
19 Nov 2024
Spot on from @RLong_Bailey, we need a #RightToFood
12
32
2,739
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
19 Nov 2024
Spot on from @RLong_Bailey, we need a #RightToFood
1
15
28
3,864
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
We attended a brilliant community event on County Road this weekend alongside Walton Community Shop, @SFoodbanks and Love Walton CIC 💚 We support a #RightToFood and had clear messages for the politicians gathering in #Liverpool for the Labour Party Conference tomorrow.
6
14
1,554
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
“Access to affordable, safe, nutritious food should neither be a charitable act nor  a luxury, but a basic right” - I am standing with trade unionists, academics calling @Keir_Starmer to tackle food insecurity @FoodandWorkNet1 @feedinglpool @SFoodbanks @GeoFoodieOrg @DrLJBHayes
Unions join academics and anti-poverty campaigners from @FoodandWorkNet1 to demand an end to Foodbank Britain through stronger workplace and trade union rights genuine social security labourlist.org/2024/09/keir-… @RightToFoodLDN @IERUK @Sfoodbanks @IanByrneMP @TrussellUK @CPAGUK
4
7
1,782
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Prospect supports the call to end food bank Britain. Mike Clancy has joined union leaders and @FoodandWorkNet1 campaigners urging the Prime Minister to tackle food insecurity. labourlist.org/2024/09/keir-…
8
8
1,011
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Union leaders call on Keir Starmer to end ‘food bank Britain’
18 Sep 2024
Leaders of the some of the country's leading trade unions have called on the government to stop austerity and bring an end to 'food bank Britain' labourlist.org/2024/09/keir-…
1
3
7
840
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Food bank use soared under the Tories. This can't go on. The Labour Government must tackle poverty across Britain by ending 14 years of Tory austerity once and for all.
18 Sep 2024
Leaders of the some of the country's leading trade unions have called on the government to stop austerity and bring an end to 'food bank Britain' labourlist.org/2024/09/keir-…
4
8
34
3,657
Food and Work Network (FAWN) retweeted
Union leaders join academics and anti/poverty campaigners from @FoodandWorkNet1 in sending an open letter to @Keir_Starmer warning that the government must not allow foodbanks to be normalised in Britain
18 Sep 2024
Leaders of the some of the country's leading trade unions have called on the government to stop austerity and bring an end to 'food bank Britain' labourlist.org/2024/09/keir-…
11
8
1,861