Food and Work Network (FAWN)

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

[UNITY Consulting Scotland @UnityConsults]

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 https://t.co/ViZu7JufiW

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#HungerIsAPoliticalChoice

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

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

[Right To Food UK Commission @RightConfe57651]

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: https://t.co/8bTYXUDqdz
Learn more: https://t.co/JnQfb8Npls
Get involved: https://t.co/NmQOhwgY3Q

[General Federation of Trade Unions @GFTU1]

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: https://t.co/Uv6PbhNCoq

#RightToFood #GFTU

[Food and Work Network (FAWN) @FoodandWorkNet1]

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 https://t.co/sZkyTNMax5.

To submit evidence visit https://t.co/NPzoYzwFkP

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Austerity on the table: Britain’s food workers are being driven into hunger, say SARAH WOOLLEY and IAN BYRNE MP

https://t.co/fXoj8kn9Qo

[Right To Food UK Commission @RightConfe57651]

Please help to show and share yr support for the #RightToFood UK Commission

[Right To Food UK Commission @RightConfe57651]

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.

[Michael Calderbank @Calderbank]

Proud to be working on the launch of this today with the @IanByrneMP @FoodandWorkNet1 @BFAWUOfficial and the Right to Food campaign
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[Food and Work Network (FAWN) @FoodandWorkNet1]

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: https://t.co/sZkyTNMax5

[Food and Work Network (FAWN) @FoodandWorkNet1]

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

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

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.
https://t.co/XcmTFfivmo

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

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.
https://t.co/scse5Ocyc8

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

Well said @RLong_Bailey
#RightToFood
#HungerIsAPoliticalChoice

[BFAWU @BFAWUOfficial]

Spot on from @RLong_Bailey, we need a #RightToFood

[Feeding Liverpool @feedinglpool]

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.

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

‘We can end the need for food banks, but we can't do it alone’

#HungerIsAPoliticalChoice
#RightToFood https://t.co/5gNLK5DUsn

[Dr. Naomi Maynard @NaomiPMaynard]

“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

[Prospect Union @ProspectUnion]

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. https://t.co/dUKNGzPMSL

[Neil Findlay @Neilsocialist]

Union leaders call on Keir Starmer to end ‘food bank Britain’

[Momentum 🌹 @PeoplesMomentum]

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.

[Trade Union Coordinating Group @TUCGinfo]

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