Food for Life Catering Mark
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
Bordeaux Quay, Bristol
For both their menu in the brasserie and restaurant
Cawdor Castle, Nairn, Scotland
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
Lakewood Conference Centre, Blagdon, Bristol:
1 site serving 50 meals/day
Local Food Links, Bridport:
For their primary school menu - 24 sites - 1,000 meals/day
SILVER
Early Years Catering, Bristol: 25 nursery sites - 650-750 meals/day
Nottinghamshire County Council:
For their primary and secondary school menu - 360 sites - 34,914 meals/day.
Shire Services, Shropshire:
For their primary school menu - 200 sites - 25,000 meals/day Bronze
BRONZE
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
Eden Foodservice, Berkshire:
For school meals in Croydon - serving 96 sites - 10,700 meals/day
ISS Caterhouse, Greater London:
For school meals in Merton - serving 48 sites - 4,800 meals/day
North Bristol NHS Trust:
For covering the catering requirements for Southmead and Frenchay hospitals, providing approx. 1,300 and 1,400 covers respectively per day
Northumberland County Council:
all meals across 172 sites - 134 primary and 34 middle schools
Nottingham University Hospital Trust:
For their City Hospital menu - 8,000 meals/day
Get in touch
If you would like to learn more about the Food for Life Partnership or have any questions, please contact us.