Sabine Goodwin

Director

Sabine has led IFAN's various strands of work including the organisation's advocacy and research projects since 2018. Sabine was formerly a television news and investigative journalist and began working with IFAN in February 2017. As a food bank volunteer, she became aware of the scarcity of information available on independent food banks working outside of the Trussell Trust network and approached the newly formed IFAN with a plan to create a database of independent food banks working across the UK. This list was first published in The Guardian in May 2017. Sabine subsequently collaborated with Dr Rachel Loopstra at King's College London on a study of independent food banks operating across England.

Sabine represents IFAN in the media, at events, within advisory groups, at evidence-gathering sessions, in collaborative work with academics and at meetings with central, national and local government teams as well as elected representatives. Sabine regularly writes opinion pieces including for The Big Issue, The BMJ, and IFAN's blog page.

She has been responsible for IFAN's UK-wide 'Worrying About Money?' cash first referral leaflet project since the end of 2020. In November 2019, she won the Caroline Walker Trust 30th Anniversary Media Campaigner of the Year Award and, in January 2020, she was listed as a Top 100 Changemaker for 2020 by The Big Issue.