Our work 2010
Find out about Food for Life Partnership achievements in 2010, including case studies from award winning schools across the country.

Building on success

This year more schools than ever before have signed up to become valued members of the Food for Life Partnership.
We are now working with over 3,000 primary, secondary and special schools and their cooks and caterers to deliver over 200,000 Food for Life accredited meals every day. Schools are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of their communities through growing and cooking food and visiting farms. They are achieving this with support from the four partnership organisations – the Soil Association, Focus on Food Campaign,
Health Education Trust and Garden Organic – all dedicated to transforming the lives of children and their families through food. In September we held our first and hugely successful National Roast Dinner Day, mobilising 6,850 schools to celebrate their school meals, promote the Food for Life Partnership and engage in a world-record attempt. An estimated one million freshly prepared, locally sourced meals were enjoyed that day!
In 2011 we will continue to build on our success, strengthening existing partnerships and forging new ones as we help schools and their communities, local authorities and caterers to respond to the budget challenges now beginning to bite. We will be raising the profile of our impact in order to continue to harness this year’s momentum so that more young people and their families can enjoy food for life.

Libby Grundy, co-director, Food for Life Partnership