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Child health is at a tipping point
Obesity is one of the biggest crises facing our country, with diet-related disease-causing untold personal misery and costing the NHS £6 billion a year and rising. In the most deprived areas, 1 in 3 children leaves primary school obese, almost double the rates in more privileged areas.
Investing equally in the next generation, equipping every child with the skills to eat and cook real food for themselves, is a proven, vital intervention into their future health, wellbeing and happiness. Yet while the school food system has come a long way, there is still too often beige, boring bad for you food being served up in schools.
“But you can’t change the system.” Nope.
“But good food is expensive”. Wrong again.
“Kids don’t need nice food”. Now that’s just mean.
Better is possible
At Chefs in Schools, we’re delivering clean, healthy, inexpensive, generation-powering, mind-opening, society-changing food in schools – and inspiring and enabling schools across the country to follow our lead.
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Our News
Sustainable School Kitchen Webinar – Watch Now
Making your kitchen sustainable can save money and the planet. If you missed our webinar on sustainable kitchens, you can watch it online now. It’s not just packed with tips, tricks and expert advice, there’s a recipe demo too.
The Reality of Food in Schools
Our Chief Executive, Naomi Duncan, shared her thoughts with Clemmie Telford for The Mother Of All Lists blog on how and why we need to transform food, food culture and food education in schools.
The Reality of Food in Schools
Our Chief Executive, Naomi Duncan, shared her thoughts with Clemmie Telford for The Mother Of All Lists blog on how and why we need to transform food, food culture and food education in schools.
Food Education Work Supported by Tastily
Young cooks in inner city London will have improved access to food education thanks to a partnership between our charity and Tastily – a new pre-made meal subscription service.
Hawksmoor Returns to Help Covid Response Lunch Box Scheme
Around 100 more families are set to receive weekly Lunch Boxes – thanks to the Hawksmoor restaurant joining our Covid response work. During the first lockdown, Hawksmoor opened their kitchens to make meals for our Free School Meals hampers. Now, with demand increasing again, they’re stepping in to help out for a second time.
20,000 Meals a Week Going Out During Lockdown
Our lunch box scheme is expanding to keep up with demand during school closures. Working with schools, we’re supporting the families who may not have enough food to feed their family nourishing meals.
Bags of Support from Bags of Ethics
The collection of food parcels for families from Grasmere, Matthias and Harrington Hill Primary Schools will be a lot easier for families thanks to support from Bags of Ethics. The food parcels are given to families on top of their weekly free school meal food voucher but one recurring issue has been getting the food home.
Better is Possible with Free School Meal Provision
We’ve seen the photos of the shocking free school meals being sent to families and felt it was important to comment. We believe better is possible and poor standards need to be addressed.
Thank You For Supporting Chefs in Schools in 2020
As 2020 draws to an end, Naomi Duncan – our Chief Executive – looks back on a difficult year and reflects on the support that made our work possible.