Right To Food UK Commission - Cardiff Evidence Session

The Right To Food UK Commission, announced in September 2025, will interrogate and report on the scale and scope of food poverty and hunger across the UK.

The objective of the Commission is to shine a light on the unacceptable nature of food insecurity in Britain, map out solutions to endemic food insecurity and apply pressure on the UK Government, devolved administrations and politicians and policy makers in all UK jurisdictions, to tackle and end food insecurity in the UK.

Specifically, the Commission will produce a roadmap for the implementation of a Right to Food law in the UK, the aim of which is to support a programme of work and actions to end hunger in the UK by 2035, with an interim objective of halving the number of people experiencing food insecurity by 2030.

After formally launching in Parliament on 17th November 2025, the Commission held its first evidence session in Liverpool in January 2026. This will be followed by sessions in the North East of England, Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff, and London. Each evidence session is preceded by a citizen’s assembly.

Following a citizen assembly in Aberdare on Thursday 26th March Right To Food UK Commission - Aberdare Community Assembly Tickets, Thursday, Mar 26 from 4 pm to 6 pm | Eventbrite, you are invited to an evidence session in Cardiff on Friday 27th March 2026.

Registration is not essential but it will be helpful for catering purposes.

The agenda is below:

9.45 - 10.00 - Introductions and opening remarks - Prof Kevin Morgan and Ian Byrne MP

10.00 - 11.00 Panel 1: Impact of Food Insecurity on Health and Wellbeing

· Claire Beynon - Director of Public Health for Cardiff + Vale UHB

· Andrew Misell - Director of Alcohol Change Cymru

· Jonathan Tench – Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

· Sara Long – Principal Investigator of the RISE (Reducing Inequalities in the School food Environment) Project, Cardiff University

11.00-11.10 Comfort Break

11.10 – 12.10 Panel 2: Combating Food Insecurity

· Katie Padfield & Sarah Germain – FareShare Cymru

· Rachel Biggs - Cardiff Foodbank

· Steve Evans-Jones – Rhymney Valley Foodbank

· Vincent Hotten & Lyn Vincent – Pantry Foodbank

12.10 – 13.10 Panel 3: Food Workers & Growers

· Shavanah Taj – Former General Secretary of the Wales TUC

· Selim Terziu – Hospitality Worker

· Isla Horton – Grow Cardiff

· Hannah Pitt – Researcher, Cardiff University

13.10-14.10 LUNCH BREAK

14.10 Panel 4: City Food Policy

· Huw Thomas – Councillor and Leader of Cardiff Council

· Sam Chettleburgh – Principal Sustainability Officer, Cardiff Council

· Judith Gregory - Education Catering Business Manager, Cardiff Council

· Gareth Harcombe – Head of Climate Emergency Response, Cardiff Council

15.00 Panel 5: Civic Voices

· Ali Arshad – Grange Pavilion Youth Forum

· Lucinda Jones - Food Cardiff Co-ordinator at Food Sense Wales

· Richard Powell – Splott Community Volunteers

· Steffan Evans – Director, Bevan Foundation

· Andrew Williams – TAVs Food Coop

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