Lizzie Vann Foundation
Meet the Team
Lizzie Vann Foundation
Lizzie Vann
The Lizzie Vann Foundation is being established in 2025 as the first UK based charity to solely focus on additives and contaminants in food and drink which could damage the health and well-being of families. The charity will have a particular emphasis on ensuring evidence based information is provided to all those who support the health of children and pregnant women. The charity is being established with funding from Lizzie Vann, a long-time campaigner and funder of work in this area.
Dr Helen Crawley
Director
Diana Hawdon
Trustee
Jennifer Powell
Trustee
Professor Erik Millstone Trustee
Director
Dr Helen Crawley
Helen is a public health nutritionist with forty years experience working in the food world across Government, academia, research and the third sector. Helen has worked across the lifespan supporting better food and nutrition for all age groups, focusing particularly on pregnancy and the early years in her work setting up and running First Steps Nutrition Trust. Helen supported and advocated for the Action on Additives campaign and has written reports on colours, flavourings and non-nutritive sweeteners.
With this new project Helen hopes to create a credible, evidence-based space for everyone to find out more about the additives and chemical contaminants in food which may damage health.
Trustee
Diana is a retired registered public health nutritionist and dietitian with experience in a wide variety of public health settings, clinical, community, academic, Government and voluntary sector organisations, most recently The Soil Association. She has a strong food related background from being a qualified chef and chef trainer and is an experienced academic nutrition researcher with considerable depth of knowledge about food and health and food preparation. In recent years, extensive experience supporting and training staff in a wide variety of early years and schools enabling them to meet current food and drink guidelines leading to award and accreditation schemes. Diana is currently volunteering at food initiatives in her local area.
Trustee
Jennifer Powell
Jennifer is an accountant living in the New Forest with her family of 3 children (Cameron, Emily and Ryan), husband John, horse Monty, and working springer spaniel Luna, as well as numerous other animals. She has worked on child health issues with Lizzie Vann for over 16 years but when not taking care of her family or working, will be found riding Monty in the New Forest.
Trustee
Professor Erik Millstone
Erik Millstone is an Emeritus Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex. He has been researching into the causes and consequences of technological change in the agricultural and food industries since the mid-1970s. His research has covered, for example, food additives, pesticides, Mad Cow Disease and GM foods. He has also critically analysed the structures and operations of food safety policy-making institutions in numerous countries as well as international organisations.Â
