The Children’s Food Campaign will be announcing the winners of our latest Children’s Food Awards at our Summit on Tuesday 25th February. Meet the brilliant panel of expert judges who have chosen this year’s award winners.
Dr Vicky Sibson
Vicky is a Public Health Nutritionist with a PhD from University College London and the Director of the independent charity First Steps Nutrition Trust. She has spent her 20+ year career to date focusing on maternal, infant and young child feeding and nutrition globally and in the UK, and is passionate that all children should be enabled to eat well from the start of life.
Nicki Whiteman
Nicki Whiteman is Chief Brand and Youth Officer at Bite Back, the youth activist movement challenging the way unhealthy food is made, marketed and sold, especially to children. Nicki began her career at the BBC where she spent 15 years as a presenter and journalist before taking on various leadership roles within the third sector. She leads all Bite Back's youth advocacy work and on growing the reputation of the young people and their mission.
Katharine Jenner
Katharine Jenner is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and Director of the Obesity Health Alliance, previously the Director of Action on Sugar and Salt for over a decade. Katharine is Chair of Sustain's Children's Food Campaign working party.
Fran Bernhardt
Fran Bernhardt is Sustain’s Commercial Determinants Coordinator. She has supported Transport for London plus 21 English local governments to champion children’s health by bringing in robust policies that switch the spotlight away from unhealthy foods and drinks across their advertising estates, and now runs a working party where she supports a further 150 local governments to progress their own policies. She was recently awarded a Churchill Fellowship to explore successful food industry regulations in Latin America.
Clare Frewin
Clare, mum of 3 children aged 10, 13 & 15 and local authority Health Improvement Lead, is passionate about equity in early years and an advocate for affordable, nutritious food, clear labelling, and policy changes.
Bella Frewin
Bella, aged 15, enjoys cooking vegetarian food and values quality ingredients, she’s interested in the environmental impact of food and a champion for affordable, nutritious options for all.
Roshni Shah
Roshni is the Diversity Outreach Coordinator at Sustain. She coordinates their diversity outreach work which aims to bring more people from underrepresented backgrounds, with specific focus on ethnic diversity, into the progressive food and farming sector. She has 10 years of experience in sustainable food and community spaces.
Clara Snow
Clara is a Mission Manager in the Healthy Lives team at Nesta. Prior to joining Nesta, Clara spent eight years building fairer food environments in retail, community and home settings, with families and communities experiencing deprivation. She played a key role in the design and implementation of innovative new models of food distribution in the UK, including social supermarkets, children's holiday provision and family recipe boxes. Clara was named one of the World's Top 100 Changemakers by The Big Issue in 2020, and is a Churchill Fellow. She published her research on emerging food distribution models in December 2024.
Oona Buttafoco
Oona Buttafoco is a Senior Policy Officer for Healthy and Sustainable Diets at the Soil Association. She was formally with RSPB, working in their ‘Nature Positive Economy’ team where she co-led the organisation’s nature-friendly consumption workstream, and helped set up the RSPB horizon-scanning and foresight function in support of policy and strategy development. She has a background in consumer affairs campaigning, and a Masters in European Affairs from Uppsala University and University of Udine, focusing on traceability in olive oil supply chains. Oona is passionate about healthy and sustainable food being accessible and affordable for all.
Myles Bremner
Myles is the CEO of Bremner & Co. He has spent over 20 years working with leading organisations to transform the way we think about the food system. He is the former Director of the government’s School Food Plan, spearheading the transformation of food culture in schools. Myles acted as an advisor to the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation and was Chief Executive of Garden Organic, a leading UK educational horticultural charity, for six years. He is a former member of the London Food Board and has held Trustee positions at Sustain, the Alliance for Better Food and Farming and at the Royal Academy of Culinary Art’s Adopt a School Programme.
Myles cares deeply about children’s nutrition and health and is currently helping to co-ordinate the work of England’s School Food Review and working with local governments on school food system transformation.
Shefalee Loth
Shefalee is Principal Researcher/Writer at Which? She researches and creates content on food, health and nutrition for a consumer audience. This ranges from assessing labelling claims on packaging, myth-busting and breaking down science into a digestible form. Shefalee is also a trustee for Sustain.
CFC background. Credit: Sustain
Children's Food Campaign: Better food and food teaching for children in schools, and protection of children from junk food marketing are the aims of Sustain's high-profile Children's Food Campaign. We also want clear food labelling that can be understood by everyone, including children.
