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Sonia is a member of staff at Sutton Community Farm, London's only community-owned fruit and veg farm. The farm grows over 40 types of fruit and veg in harmony with nature, building healthy soils, welcoming wildlife and never using chemicals to grow food. Over 70 weekly volunteers come to the farm to get involved in all areas of farm activities. The farm runs an online farm shop and delivers fresh seasonal food to people's homes and pick-up points across south London and Surrey.

Sonia has been working at the farm since 2017 and has a background in food growing, education, and working for organisations that transform food waste into a community resource. Before working for Sutton Community Farm, Sonia was involved with FoodCycle, People's Kitchen, and a House of Hospitality for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, where she and others would whizz up tasty community meals from food diverted from landfill.

Website: www.suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk

Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/suttonfarm/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SuttonCommunityFarm/

Stacey Williams is Head of Business Development at world first anti-food waste app, Gander.

A seasoned retailer who previously worked for Marks & Spencer and Morrisons developing, leading and supporting diverse teams at divisional, regional and store level, Stacey is experienced in planning and executing change programmes and has implemented multiple innovative solutions to optimise performance and drive-up business efficiency.

He has been with Gander since February 2022. The world first anti food waste mobile app allows retailers to display reduced to clear (often yellow-stickered) food and drink, to consumers in real time. The tech, which integrates seamlessly with retailers’ point of sale systems, displays reduced products on the app in front of a huge audience, essentially allowing retailers to increase revenue and footfall whilst helping to reduce food waste.

Aria Beheshtaein is founder of B’liev, a new plant-based, protein shake available in three unusual, but utterly delicious flavours: Blueberry Muffin, Cookies & Cream and Chocolate Brownie. Packed with protein and fibre, and fortified with vitamins and minerals, B’liev delivers much more than hydration and great taste, and encourages us all to believe that anything is possible, we just have to believe in ourselves.

Web: https://bliev.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlievOfficial/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blievofficial/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blievofficial

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bliev/about/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blievofficial

Hey my name is Robert Straw and in March this year I founded Action Against Food Poverty, which is a Saturday morning walk in London supporting not only our homeless friends with food and supplies but others such as students, single parents, unemployed and many other social groups that finding it hard to access decent food and other necessities of life. We use food as a catalyst for conversation as emotional contact and support is just as important as the food we serve to our friends. After spending time talking to them we want to come away with our friends feeling in a much better place mentally before Action Against Food Poverty arrived. Thank you so much for checking out the podcast, if you would like more information, join a walk or make a donation to Action Against Food Poverty here are the details email [email protected] www.crowdfunder.co.uk/action-against-food-poverty mobile 07961 027852.

Suzy Holding & Lisa Harmer of Best Before Cafe and Food Rescue Hub in North Hertfordshire.

Both our nonprofit organisations rescue surplus food to ensure no good food goes to waste. Best Before Cafe, run entirely by volunteers, works out of one shop and serves the community in Letchworth Garden City. Food Rescue Hub is an eco-community that has 3 market style pop up outlets at sites in Hitchin, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage.

Though the Cafe and the Hub work in different ways, both teams are passionate about environment and people. This brings us together.

Toni Vernelli, International Head of Communications and Marketing, Veganuary

The daughter of a butcher from a small town in Northern Canada, Toni gave up meat in her teens when she learned that we can live and be healthy without it. Now vegan for more than 30 years, she believes passionately that we need a mass shift towards plant-based eating and is proud to be part of an organisation fuelling this change. She also holds a PhD in Animal Behaviour. www.veganuary.com @weareveganuary

Fatima “Fatti” Tarkleman is a zero-waste, British migrant chef of mixed African-Asian descent. She has special interests in cross-cultural cooking that prioritises sustainability, inclusivity, and local produce, while representing her London upbringing and the flavours of her heritage. Fatima works as a private chef, workshop facilitator, recipe writer, and content creator. She embraces innovative ways of using age-old techniques to make delicious food, putting care for people, their stories, and nature at the heart of her practice. @foodventures_with_fatti

Ellen Tout is a sustainability writer passionate about helping us reduce food waste. After writing about sustainability for many years, she became fascinated by compleating – eating all edible parts of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Ellen's debut book, The Complete Book of Vegan Compleating, is out now and shows us how to make the most of our ingredients, save money, have fun with food and reduce food waste by compleating. For more, see ellentout.com @ellen_tout @compleatly_vegan

Food Circle Supermarket is an online surplus food retailer, specialising in healthy and high protein snacks for people who like to live healthy for less while helping to reduce food waste. The co-founders, Paul Simpson and James Barthorpe, started the company in 2018 and have sold hundreds of thousands of items that may have otherwise gone to waste, to customers across the UK. Based in South Yorkshire, Paul and James have a professional background in the surplus food industry spanning over seven years, and use this experience to work with brands and manufacturers to provide a home for their surplus food, and give consumers a way to normalise shopping for surplus and short-dated products. www.foodcirclesupermarket.co.uk @foodcirlesupermarket