"A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM?
THAT DEPENDS WHERE YOU STAND"
Food is Care CIC
“A sustainable food system? That depends where you stand.
On my estate, you can get blueberry vapes, but no blueberries. Raising my daughter as a single dad in these council blocks, that somehow didn’t seem right. We had access to flavour, but not nutrition.
Food is Care CIC was born out of the everyday realities of food insecurity, fuel poverty, and structural inequality within communities too often spoken about by policymakers and academics, but rarely heard.
What began as an attempt to help others understand the reality of council estate food environments has grown into a wider effort to create change, so communities like mine can begin to flourish.
Different to many other organisations, Food is Care is not only for the community - it is from the community.”
- Dominic Watters, Founder
Event: Food is Care founder Dominic Watters will be speaking at the 2026 Food Symposium hosted by the Centre for Food Policy on 11 June.
Dominic will present his continually developing Four Visual Pillars framework, which seeks to rethink and redefine food insecurity through the everyday realities of housing, food access, energy insecurity, and transport inequality within council estate communities.
Alongside this, Dominic will co-facilitate a workshop with Sarah Muir exploring convenience store food environments and opening up discussion around how communities experience and navigate food inequality in everyday life.
We’d love to see people from communities, research, policy, retail, and food organisations come together for what promises to be an important and thought-provoking event.
Before donating please check the "Impact" page to see what Food is Care has already achieved without any funding major - and imagine how much more we can achieve with your backing. Join us in our mission to end food insecurity. We know that times are hard out there so truly appreciate whatever you can give.Together, we can make a real change in some of the most deprived areas in the country.
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We believe the communities most affected by food insecurity and structural inequality should not be the least heard.
Food is Care exists to help make visible the realities, knowledge, and solutions emerging from communities too often overlooked within conversations about food systems and social change.
Our work is rooted not only in supporting communities - but in ensuring they help shape the future of the systems that disproportionatley affect them.
