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  • Since enrolling with Food for Life in April, Brunshaw Primary School in Lancashire have transformed their outside space into a flourishing growing area.

  • Schools across the country are committing to serving healthy food & embedding a good food culture, working through the Food for Life Award criteria to do so. Find out more here

  • The Academy of Woodlands in Medway have been making the most of the Food for Life’s Cook and Share resources during their regular cooking club. Discover how here.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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