Campaigns

As both a trade union and a professional body, we champion the professional, educational, public, and workplace interests of our members.

This campaign aims to ensure that all primary school children across the UK have access to a high-quality, nutritious meal every day.

This campaign advocates for the development of a UK-wide food strategy that takes a comprehensive approach to food policy, considering everything from farming and production to nutrition and public health.

This campaign aims to pressure the UK Government into taking the necessary steps to allow our members across all four nations of the UK independent prescribing rights, to deliver the efficient and necessary care that patients deserve.

This campaign advocates for a comprehensive, four-nation approach to protecting and expanding the dietetic workforce.

The BDA is campaigning for a comprehensive, fully funded pay strategy to underpin the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.

As a BDA member, you have the power to influence change by engaging with your local members of parliament. We urge you to write to them, regardless of their political affiliation, and ask them to pledge their support for our key policy asks.

The BDA's other campaign topics, including managing and preventing obesity, malnutrition, food poverty and insecurity and more.

From classroom, to clinic and beyond is this year’s campaign for Dietitians Week 2024, which will run from 3-7 June.

A calendar view of the awareness days, weeks, months and cultural events that the BDA will be acknowledging in 2024.

Every year, across the globe, June is dedicated to celebrating the LGBT+ community, to promote messages of equality, love and friendship, empower LGBT+ voices but also recognise the ongoing struggles for many.

Every year we celebrate Sustainable September, promoting the benefits – to health and the planet – of a sustainable diet. This September, we’re sharing all of the brilliant projects and activities undertaken by the association and our members which promote sustainability.

We plan to work with our members to tackle the misleading nutrition information that is rife on social media and online, by highlighting the worst offenders to the Advertising Standards Authority.

We’re pleased to be supporting the second #GreenerAHP Week, exploring all of the exciting new initiatives to improve patient care.

Black History Month takes place every October in the UK as a way of celebrating the work of Black people throughout history. Here our EDI Committee share their thoughts on what this means within dietetics.