Feeding Our Future

IFST is looking to grow and feed the future of the food profession. If you have been working in a technical role in the food sector at a senior level for over 10 years you are invited to join IFST and 'pay it forward'. Your membership fee will fund an early career professional with less than 10 years of experience to join us free of charge for the first year.

As well as becoming an IFST member yourself, feeding our future is a great chance to give something back. Do you have a colleague that you feel deserves recognition? The scheme enables you to provide an early career professional with the benefits that IFST membership offers, including access to our knowledge resources and events, our food science community, professional development, and recognition.

To apply, fill in an application form to join IFST as an Associate, Member or Fellow. Details are available at: www.ifst.org/membership. Then, email 'joinus@ifst.org' with the name and contact details of who you would like to nominate and why. Please use the subject line 'Feeding our future'. For more information or if you have any questions please email joinus@ifst.org with the subject heading 'Feeding our future'. Read and share our leaflet with your nominee.

IFST demonstrates its commitment to growing the technical food profession by investing in our ‘Feeding our Future’ campaign during 2021-22. For each new nominated senior IFST member who joins us (the first 150 to apply), IFST will fund joining and membership fees for another individual nominated by the new joiner, as long as they meet our Associate member criteria.