Food for Life has been working in Leicestershire for ten years, supporting schools to embed a good food culture as well as empowering people to become food leaders in their communities.
Food for Life has been working in Leicestershire for ten years, supporting schools to embed a good food culture as well as empowering people to become food leaders in their communities.
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New data from recent polls shows that voters across both major parties are supportive of extending free school meals, to make sure every child has access to at least one healthy and sustainable nourishing meal every day.
Pupils from Kingfisher Primary School in Medway recently enjoyed a visit to a wheat farm to learn all about where their food comes from. The farm, situated near Sittingbourne, Kent, is a wheat supplier for Warburtons.
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.
The Food for Life approach to delivering healthy and sustainable school meals should be mandated nationally, a recent major farming event has been told. Soil Association Head of Policy Rob Percival joined celebrity chef Tommi Miers on a panel at Groundswell farming festival that discussed how schools should be serving better food produced by British farmers.
Food for Life schools in Medway have been busy growing and harvesting this spring and summer, whether on classroom windowsills, raised beds in the school garden or even in forest spaces.
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.
What a fantastic achievement for Birch Wood Area SEND School, who have achieved their Food for Life Silver Award!
Congratulations to Inspire Academy, who are the first school in Medway to receive the Food for Life Bronze School Award.
How did you celebrate World Pulses Day? Find out how six skillful cooks from Leicestershire did.
