Food for Life Partnership Wins Prestigious BBC Award
7 Dec 2011
Food for Life Partnership wins prestigious BBC Award
The Food for Life Partnership has been awarded the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Derek Cooper Award. The award is named after The Food Programme's first presenter and is awarded to the individual or organisation doing most to bring about real change in our relationship with food. From grassroots community projects to academic research and campaigns, this award aims to recognise the unsung heroes whose work has increased access to, and knowledge and appreciation of, good food.
Award ceremony host Sheila Dillon, presenter of The Food Programme, has described the Food for Life Partnership as "the most important food project in Europe”. She commented: "For years, for decades, we've been looking for this golden way of changing attitudes to food. The Food for Life Partnership has changed things. You've seen the evidence, it's remarkable. It seems to me that if we lost what the Food for Life Partnership has achieved it would not only be a disaster for the schools and the children, it would be a disaster for the entire British society".