Lizzie Vann

Lizzie Vann is the founder of Organix, an organic children’s food company, based in Christchurch, Dorset.

Vann studied biology at the University of Lancaster, and then worked as an investment analyst in the City. Ongoing health problems, and the belief that more and more parents shared her concern for safer children’s food, led her to set up Organix in 1992, offering parents a healthier alternative to mass-produced children’s food.

Vann has campaigned for improvements to children's food, including calling on the Government to ban all additives in children's food. [ [http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=79518 Press Release] ] [ [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23411478-details/Food%20firms%20junk%20danger%20additives/article.do This is London] ] .

She was also one of the founding members of the Soil Association's Food For Life programme [ [http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/a71fa2b6e2b6d3e980256a6c004542b4/cb31eb532e8a7694802571960033fa09?OpenDocument Soil Association] ] , and in 2007, she became the chairman of the Soil Association's Organic Trade Group. [ [http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/GetInvolved/organic_trade_group.html Soil Association] ]

Lizzie has won a European Woman of Achievement Award; the Caroline Walker Award for campaigning work in the food industry; the Organic Trophy from the Soil Association in 2002, and an MBE for Services to Children’s Food.

Lizzie lives on an organic farm on the edge of the New Forest [ [http://www.agalinks.com/465_481.htm Agalinks.com] ] , with her partner Mike. The livestock farm rears pedigree Hereford cattle and Poll Dorset and Llanwenaog sheep.

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