Welcome to School Food Matters
The School Food Matters website is for anyone who cares about school food and food education. Here you will find evidence of why school food matters, great examples of best practice and fun ideas to get children cooking and growing and out onto a farm.
Latest News
Bake your Lawn
- Thursday, 19 January 2012
Fancy growing your own bread? Our friends at The Real Bread Campaign are offering schools 100g of organic wheat seeds for just £2. You can then find out how to turn your lawn into a tasty loaf by following the free Bake Your Lawn guide. And if you're a baker, farmer, gardener or miller, the Real Bread team is asking you to adopt your local school to help them along the way. Click here for details.
Parents Like You
- Thursday, 19 January 2012
We now have three fantastic short films from parents who have made a big difference in their schools. Have a look here and find out how one parent developed a huge food growing space, another designed and produced a recipe book which sold enough copies to fund cookery classes and how East Sheen Primary transformed school food. Inspiring stories from parents just like you!
Action-packed Fundraising!
- Thursday, 12 January 2012
Those lovely chaps at Salad Days have chosen SFM as their charity in The Salad Challenge! Directors of Salad Days, Mark Prove and Andrew Swiney will be leaping out of planes and running through mud because they love what we do - bless 'em. You can follow their progress and support their stirling efforts here.
