Food for Life Catering Mark

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If you are a caterer interested in demonstrating to parents and schools that you can deliver menus that use fresh, seasonal, local and organic ingredients, high welfare meat and sustainable fish, the Food for Life Catering Mark is for you.

The Food for Life Catering Mark criteria have been developed to reflect best practice in healthy and sustainable school meals, in consultation with a wide range of leading school caterers from the private, independent and local authority sectors.

The same criteria form the ‘Food quality & provenance’ strand of the Food for Life Partnership Mark for schools, which will also be awarded at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels. Increasingly, headteachers and parents will be asking caterers to support the school's work towards achieving a Food for Life Partnership Mark award.

Find out more about the Food for Life Catering Mark on the Soil Association website.


Food for Life Catering Mark accredited caterers:

GOLD

Abbeywood Tots Nurseries, Bristol:
3 sites - 120 meals/day

Celtic Football Club Hospitality, Glasgow:
For the children’s weekday and match-day menus

East Ayrshire Council:
For their primary school menu - 40 sites - 4,716 meals/day

Little Green Rascals, Nr York:
Children's day nursery providing meals for 77 children every day

Local Food Links, Bridport:
For their primary school menu - 24 sites - 1,000 meals/day

Tall Trees Kindergarten, Frome, Somerset:
For their meals supplied to children aged 4 months to pre-school. The kindergartenprovides meals to 50 children a day

SILVER

Childcare Network Ltd, Richmond, Surrey
2 nursery sites - 54 children in total

Early Years Catering, Bristol:
25 nursery sites – 650-750 meals/day

Eden Foodservice, Berkshire:
For school meals in Croydon - serving 96 sites - 10,700 meals/day

Nottinghamshire County Council:
For their primary and secondary school menu - 360 sites - 34,914 meals/day.

Pride Catering, Middlesex:
For their menu supplied to St Stephen's School,Twickenham - 238 meals/day.

School Food Company (previously The Dinner Ladies), Cheshire
For meals supplied to Gorsey Bank Primary School - 336 covers per day (75% pupils)

Shire Services, Shropshire:
For their primary school menu - 200 sites - 25,000 meals/day

The Farm Kitchen, Lincolnshire:
Providing school meals to 44 primary schools across the region. 1500 meals/day.

The Kitchen (schools) at Nocton Heath, Lincolnshire:
Supplying meals to 22 primary schools - up to 850 meals a day.

BRONZE

Accent Catering, South East London:
For meals served to 16 primaries

Bath and North East Somerset Council:
For their primary school menu - 66 sites - 2,600 meals/day

Cater Link Ltd, Pembury, Kent:
120 sites served with menu - 13,684 meals/day

Chartwells: For meals served at George Palmer school only

Devon Catering and Cleaning Services:
For their primary school menu - 270 sites - 14,000 meals/day

Durham County Council:
For their primary school menu - up to 38 schools - 4,188 meals/day

Havering Catering Services:
For the Borough's primary school menus - serving 53 schools - 11,000 meals/day

Highland Council:
For primary school meals across 173 sites - 9000 meals/day

Independent Catering:
For meals supplied to 10 primary schools and 33 secondary schools in Kent and SE England.

ISS Caterhouse, Greater London:
For school meals in Merton - serving 48 sites - 4,800 meals/day

Northumberland County Council:
All meals across 172 sites - 134 primary and 34 middle schools. 17,000 meals/day

Oldham County Council:
13500 meals a day to 97 schools

Plymouth County Council, Devon:
For meals across 78 schools, including 2 nurseries and 5 special schools - 8000 meals/day

Thurrock Catering Services Ltd, Essex:
For meals supplied to 35 schools; the menu is changed twice per year and runs on a 3 week cycle.

Get in touch

If you would like to learn more about the Food for Life Partnership or have any questions, please contact us.