Tick off Bronze, Silver and Gold... If your caterer has the Food for Life Catering Mark

 15 February 2011 – If your caterer has the Food for Life Bronze, Silver or Gold Catering Mark, you can tick off MOST if not ALL of the Food Quality and Provenance criteria for the corresponding award.

 Criteria

• If your caterer has the Bronze Catering Mark, tick off SIX criteria for Bronze.
– Only one more to go: A member of our catering staff has been encouraged to get involved in food education activities.
• If your caterer has the Silver Catering Mark, tick off ALL criteria for Silver.
• If your caterer has Gold Catering Mark, tick off ALL criteria for Gold.

Resources

Find out if your caterer has achieved a Catering Mark by clicking on the Soil Association’s ‘school caterers’ web page here and scrolling down to the section entitled Award holders.

In the news

In an interview with ITV Granada, Headteacher Andrew Sowerby and pupils from Corpus Christi Primary School talk about how they have worked with their local authority caterer Oldham Borough Council to bring healthy food and organic meat to the school canteen.

Case study

Shire Services at Shropshire Council has the Food for Life Silver Catering Mark for its meals served to 135 primary schools in Shropshire. Since embarking on the Catering Mark three years’ ago, Shire Services has seen its school meal take-up increase year-on-year. Read the case study.