Your team of volunteers
Katy Davidson, Founding Director
Katy is the founding leader of the Youth Food Movement UK.
Wanting to create something that was appealing and inclusive for all youth regardless of background or knowledge, Katy has been working on building YFM UK since 2007. Her background in journalism, PR, and Marketing has helped infinitely with building a robust and forward looking movement.
Food culture and its impact on society is one of her leading passions and has lead her to design and implement the now popular Skillshare project in an attempt to educate and reconnect young people and others with their food. A fact she learnt recently that 40% of homes no longer have dining tables, has galvanised her belief in the work of YFM UK even further.
Seeing the link between cultural richness, emotional and physical health, environmental health and the combined power of these to have positive effects on society is something Katy believes in wholeheartedly.
Katy loves oysters, the occasional rare steak, fishing, shooting and having friends around her table for heated debate, silly talk, ideas that will change the world and good food! Contact Katy
Mia Hadfield-Spoor, Partnerships Officer (pic & bio coming soon!)
Currently working on our partnerships with NFYFC & UKYCC
Amy Joyce.
Amy is a freelance graphic designer specialising in design for food, and has spent over 7 years working with a number of food and sustainability luminaries.
Amy was inspired to join the Youth Food Movement after reading Bad Food Britain by Joanna Blythman and is always going on about how everyone should read it.
Amy loves spending hours pottering about in the kitchen, sharing meals with favourite people, everyone at Farm Direct and discovering perfect flavour combinations. Contact Amy
Meritaten Mance, Pro-Bono PR Officer
Meri is an epicurean, luxury and lifestyle pr expert. As well as having worked for some of the UK’s top restaurateurs and raconteurs such as Marco Pierre White, Iqbal Wahhab OBE and The Ivy’s Fernando Pierre and represented some of the UK’s foremost eateries and food emporiums such as Borough Market, Roast Restaurant and the Roast brand, The Cinnamon Club, Zuma, Hawksmoor and The Glorious Group at The O2, Meri has also specialised in representing luxury food and drink brands that include Perrier Jouet Champagne, Mumm Champagne, Courvoisier Cognac, Moet Hennessey, Vestal Vodka and Abel & Cole.
Meri has also consulted for Finch & Partners growing their Travel division where she has represented The Hotel du Cap, Eden Roc, it’s sister hotel the Chateau Saint-Martin & Spa on the Cote d’Azure, Muse Hotel in St Tropez, The YTL Group who have hotels across Malaysia, Bali and Japan, The Palazzo Terranova in Perugia, Italy and The Arcanum, a well being sanctuary in Phuket amongst other properties. And through Mance & Rose PR, a subsidiary of Meri Mance PR, The Opera Quarter – Covent Garden’s Historic Food Quarter and South Molton Street, Brook Street and the Lanes of Mayfair.
In 2003 Meri became a director of Laundry Communications, a young vibrant lifestyle pr company, where she focused on food and drink clients. Later in 2005 she co-founded Kitchen Communications. Meri Mance PR was set up in early 2006 focusing on luxury lifestyle pr.
Having specialised in luxury, food, drink, lifestyle and travel PR for over a decade, Meri has unparalleled contacts with journalists and style leaders in these sectors. Meri was also featured in Fabric Magazines ‘Bright Young Things – Londoner’s Shaping The Capital’s Cultural Scene’ special in 2005 and was on the Cool Brands Council for 2006/7/8, she is also on the committee for the Watch This Space Young and Emerging Artists Auction. Joining the YFM UK is a natural step in supporting a vibrant food culture for the future.