About Us

We are a social enterprise, rebellious community, activist platform and event series fighting back against diet culture, body shame and fat phobia. We promote the ideals of body acceptance and Health At Every Size, as we believe that we can only make healthful decisions about our bodies if we have a foundation of basic respect and trust in our bodies.

We want to help build a world where we aren’t weighed down by shame around what we look like, our sexuality, our ability, or any forms of stigma surrounding our appearance. We want to inspire people to find peace around food and movement, to be liberated from beauty standards so that they can show up for themselves authentically.

Find out why we are ANTI-DIET or read our MANIFESTO.

Want to know why we are so anti-diet? Find out here.

Through hosting events and meet-ups we bring the ‘body positive’ movement into ‘in real life’ (IRL) spaces. We’re creating a community united around our shared experiences of weight obsession, diet-cycling, and losing trust in our bodies. Through gathering together in person and via online events, we’re able to support each other out of this cycle and into the kinder world of body acceptance. 

From creative workshops, to intimate discussions and sharing circles, regular life drawing classes, expert panel debates, boob-printing sessions, self-love journaling… the list goes on! We produce an array of engaging events that inspire people to look after their mental and physical wellbeing outside of a weight-loss paradigm. If you have a workshop idea then let us know.

Anti Diet Riot Club was first dreamed up in 2017 by its Founder & Director Becky Young. It launched officially in January 2018 (what we like to call ‘National Diet Month’) with the announcement of its first event ‘Being Body Powerful’ with speaker Megan Jayne Crabbe. This launch event in East London sold out to over 100 people and was featured in Grazia, The Guardian and The Metro. The surge of interest showed it to be a true zeitgeist moment. 

A few months later, after several more sold out events, Becky met and started working with Harri Rose, a qualified health coach specialising in body acceptance coaching, to develop workshops for the festival circuit. Together, they took ADRC on the road for the first time, bringing anti-diet content to the likes of Camp Bestival, Virgo Festival, Meadows In The Mountains and Lost Village Festival. 

In summer of 2019, they successfully crowdfunded over £16,000 to build a bespoke bus to take the riot all around the UK, a campaign which is now on pause until 2021. 

Anti Diet Riot Club is a social enterprise in the process of setting up as a limited company.