Alexia grew up in a wood in Dorset, in the Blackmore Vale where dairy farming is at its heart and where all the threads of rural life have created a community in which everyone celebrates each other’s joys and supports each other through sadness.

After an early career in management consultancy, specialising in change management, she founded Love British Food in response to the Foot and Mouth crisis, when everything she valued was under threat. From small beginnings, and the efforts of many communities around the country, it is now one of the leading organisations boosting the domestic market for British food and encouraging sustainable supply chains to make good food available for all.

Working at grassroots and industry level, Love British Food leads British Food Fortnight, the National Harvest Service, public sector working groups, support for schools, universities, hospitals and care homes and a national programme of farm visits for caterers. Now in its 25^th anniversary year, running through it all is a passion for inspiring and enabling people and communities to make change themselves.

Alexia is the longest serving representative of food and farming on the Public Sector Catering Alliance and a member of the No Farmers No Food working group. Hunting and horse racing are an integral thread throughout her rural life and her greatest pride is having trained a family horse to be national point-to-point champion.