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For over a decade, BaxterStorey has partnered with Food for Life Served Here (FFLSH) to transform the way sustainable and nutritious food is served across the UK. Now, with the launch of a bold new five-year sustainability and nutrition strategy, BaxterStorey is setting its sights even higher: aiming to achieve Food for Life Served Here certification across all 1000 of its UK locations, as part of a trailblazing approach to serving healthier, more sustainable meals to the 1 million people they feed each day.

Greenshaw Learning Trust has made remarkable progress in school catering over the past year. Twenty-nine schools within the trust have earned Food for Life Served Here Bronze certification, meaning over 5,700 healthier and more sustainable meals are served daily.

Kingsthorpe Grove Primary School has become the first school in West Northamptonshire to achieve the Food for Life (FFL) Bronze Award, a significant milestone in promoting healthy food education and culture within schools.

Food for Life has extensive experience both in verifying compliance with standards and supporting schools with a whole school approach, and we are delighted to have been invited to advise the government on an ongoing basis as this work develops.

Park Primary School has been getting its school community involved with growing and outdoor cooking by opening their garden gates to pupils’ families.

Join a webinar where we’ll overview our system-wide approach to co-design and collaboration with local authority partners and make clear how our bespoke partnerships are designed to impact three main outcome areas in local food systems.

Whilst growing our own fruit and veg is a great way to eat more minimally processed foods, ultra-processed foods still dominate our diets. British people eat more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) than anyone else in Europe: they make up 65% of our children’s diets and over 50% of our shopping baskets.

We want to make minimally processed food more accessible, and one barrier we often see is knowing how to cook them in a way that doesn’t need lots of fancy equipment or cooking skills. Recently, the Food for Life Lancashire team delivered training on ultra-processed and minimally processed foods to 22 teachers, who will go on to share their new skills with pupils, colleagues and the wider school community.

Over the past year our expert training team have collaborated closely with two primary schools in Hull, with funding from The Joseph and Annie Cattle Trust, to codesign a bespoke framework for primary schools to deliver curriculum activities with a focus on wellbeing, enjoying nature and eating for good health.

A big well done to Stanton Under Bardon primary school in Leicestershire who have achieved their Food for Life Bronze Award! We were pleased to welcome two members of staff to Food for Life training in January, where they learnt how to cook aloo tikki, potato cakes made with onion and spices. Following training, they took the recipe back to school to teach pupils during one of their food events.

St Mary’s Catholic School in Leicestershire have now achieved their Food for Life Gold Award, making them the seventh school in the area to achieve this top award. The school have embraced a whole setting approach to food whole-heartedly, ensuring it’s a staple part of the school day, not just at lunchtime.