School Food Matters

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At School Food Matters, we work to transform school food from the ground up. From hands-on cooking lessons, to growing in school gardens and driving whole-school food transformation, we help children to access nourishing, fun food. 🍎

We’re about to enter our market season, where children and young people sell the vegetables they have learnt to grow in their school gardens. Stay tuned...

📣 We're looking for a UK-based freelance web developer to support and maintain our Drupal website.

This is a flexible, ongoing opportunity with a small, friendly charity team working to improve school food for children across the country.

Interested, or know someone who might be? View the brief via the link in our bio and submit an expression of interest by 12 June.

The Department for Education has announced that 10 million meals have now been served through the free breakfast clubs programme as the Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, writes directly to all schools with primary-age pupils about next steps for the national rollout.

Read more on out latest news, link in bio.

Behind every great session we run is a volunteer. This Volunteers’ Week, we’re shining a spotlight on the amazing individuals who help us to run visits to apiaries, assist at cooking sessions, take coachloads of children to farms, and much more. We're so grateful for all your hard work, volunteers!

The government are updating the School Food Standards, and there’s only one week left to have your say. We welcome the proposed changes, but standards alone won't improve children's diets. We encourage schools, parents, individuals working in schools, or organisations working with school to respond to the consultation.

We’ve created a template submission which can be submitted as is or adapted. Find our response and consultation resources on our Latest News, link in bio.

We are reminiscing about these amazing banana dolphins - a great ! This tasty breakfast club cup is fun for children to make, nutritious and delicious! 🍌

This National Children's Gardening Week, we spoke to Growing Communities, a community-led London organisation connecting children and young people with food, nature and sustainable farming through hands-on experiences. Read more on our blog, link in bio. 🔗

📢 We're looking for an evaluator!

Help us understand what it takes to scale school food transformation.

We're seeking an independent evaluator to assess the impact, learning and long-term sustainability of a major two-year pilot testing how our programmes can deliver impact at scale through local authority and Multi-Academy Trust partnerships.

📅 Expressions of interest due: Friday 5 June

Read the full brief on our website -https://www.schoolfoodmatters.org/get-involved/work-us - or contact Eve Blair at [email protected] for more information.

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This , we spoke to our gardener Jannine McMahon, who has been working with schools across Manchester to help children understand pollination, food and biodiversity.🐝

We talk local landscapes, soil and how much children love worms - read more on our blog, link in bio!

If you need an excuse to treat yourself or your loved ones this weekend, here it is... one pound from every bill at Wildflowers .restaurant in Pimlico will be donated to School Food Matters for the next six months, to support our food education work in schools.

Many thanks to Wildflowers for supporting us, and helping children to leave school with an informed and positive relationship with food.

[Photo shows a meal on a table, containing Ricotta Agnolotti, Violetta Artichokes, Peas and Morels]

Find out more about Wildflowers on thier website: https://www.wildflowersrestaurant.co.uk/