Since 2017, Food for Life, in partnership with Walsall Council, has been driving a powerful food transformation across the borough. With Walsall facing challegnes around cost of living and access to healthy food, the council recognised that real change requires a joined-up approach to the whole food system.
As we reach the end of a very busy year for all of us in the food world, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the successes and challenges we’ve faced and our hopes for 2025.
To celebrate both Cook and Share and Diwali, Newbold Verdon Primary School got cooking with their early years pupils. Usually they celebrate by making sweets, but this year Cook and Share’s free toolkit of resources inspired them to give a savoury snack a go.
Congratulations to Walverden Primary School in Lancashire who have achieved a Food for Life Bronze Award.
Learn how Happy Days Childcare is benefiting from Food for Life resources here.
This autumn, pupils at Oaklands Primary School in Medway got cooking as they spent a lesson making a delicious pumpkin and apple soup. Find out more here.
Read about our Early Years award as we celebrate 20 years of Food for Life.
Recently, our training team hosted a webinar all about our new Tastes and Texture resource for early years. Read about it here.
Cooking is a wonderful activity that all can get involved with, whether you’re a seasoned cook passing on your skills or someone who is learning their first recipe. Learn more here.
With current challenges needing greater flexibility, this new award will recognise and celebrate the progress schools and nurseries have made despite including tighter budgets, less time, and lower capacity.
Whether it’s working with the school caterer to ensure at least 75% of the menu is freshly prepared, or working with pupils to grow fruit and veg in the school garden, over 700 schools and nurseries in the UK are working towards a more healthy and sustainable future with Food for Life.
Hooray for Sir John Moore Primary School who have achieved their Food for Life Gold Award!
