• Fresh Street

    Vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables
Fresh Street

We are a team of researchers exploring ways to create a healthier, fairer and more sustainable UK food system for everyone.
Fresh Street Community

Fresh Street Community focuses on the role of community hubs as centres for social connectivity and support, providing a point to buy fresh vegetables and fruit, but also to access wellbeing, healthcare and social activities.
Fresh Street Community Garden

Fresh Street Community focuses on the role of community hubs as centres for social connectivity and support, providing a point to buy fresh vegetables and fruit, but also to access wellbeing, healthcare and social activities.
Webinars

For many households in deprived areas healthy foods, especially fruit and vegetables, are unavailable, unaffordable, or inaccessible. The Fresh Street fruit and vegetable voucher scheme has already been tested in five areas of high deprivation (Barnsley, Sheffield, Tower Hamlets, Bradford and Doncaster). The scheme was found to be acceptable by householders, local fruit and vegetable suppliers (not supermarkets), and local public health teams.
Research and Publications

For many households in deprived areas healthy foods, especially fruit and vegetables, are unavailable, unaffordable, or inaccessible. The Fresh Street fruit and vegetable voucher scheme has already been tested in five areas of high deprivation (Barnsley, Sheffield, Tower Hamlets, Bradford and Doncaster). The scheme was found to be acceptable by householders, local fruit and vegetable suppliers (not supermarkets), and local public health teams.
Food Ladders

Food Ladders is an evidenced-based approach for framing food-based interventions and tool for community-based development that focuses on reducing vulnerability to food insecurity.
Introduction

Many UK communities cannot afford, or access, the food needed for a healthy diet. What (and how) we eat  affects our health and wellbeing, and also the local economy, social cohesion and wider physical environment. Despite national healthy eating campaigns (5-A-Day), and support for some families on low incomes (Healthy Start), the UK diet fails to meet any government recommendations. Just 20% of the UK population eat the recommended 5 daily portions of fresh fruit and vegetables. Fresh Street is working to change this.