Past Campaign
Give A Sausage
Do you
give a sausage about
school food?
We think all kids should have access to good food in schools. We know it can be served up in small budgets. We want kitchen teams to valued, invested in and trained. Let’s expel processed foods and teach school lunches a lesson.
What we’re asking of the Government
We’re calling on the Government to implement recommendations made in the National Food Strategy, including:
1. Put quality first
- Set minimum quality standards for health and sustainability in school food, and ensure compliance with the school food standards through a mandatory certification scheme.
2. Invest in the workforce
- Invest in training the school kitchen workforce in child nutrition and the school food standards, making this a mandatory requirement.
3. Make sure no child misses out
- Extend eligibility for free school meals to every child who needs them. As a starting point, increasing the earnings threshold for free school meal entitlement to £20,000 up from £7,400. Ensure hungry children don’t miss out because of immigration status by making the temporary extension to those with NRPF status permanent.
“This is a cause close to my heart. It’s heartbreaking to think that 4.2 million children in the UK are living in poverty, no child should go to bed hungry but far too many do. Serving good food in schools is vital if we want children to learn and reach their potential.”
Tom Kerridge – Gave a Sausage
Co-founder of Full Time Meals with the England footballer Marcus Rashford.
WHY WE GAVE A SAUSAGE
Check out our campaign video, and see whether our friends can explain it!
100’s called for change
Signing petitions, adding hashtags, tweets and thier voices our chorus.
We Got Spicy…
Talking to truth to power, and we didn’t hold back, so neither should you!
12 New Friends
12 Schools took the leap with a full school food transformation during our campaign.
15 Articles & 4 TV Appearances…
Our friends and chefs all took to the airways to shout: “it’s time to Give A Sausage”
Do you give a sausage?
60%
of secondary schools are failing to meet the school food standards.
1 in 3
children leave school overweight or obese
1.5M
children are at risk of going hungry but missing out free school meals
1.4 M
children experienced food poverty during the school holidays
“I support this campaign with all my heart. Schools can offer a fantastic opportunity to teach children to cook and eat good food that will set them up for life.”
Prue Leith
Restaurateur, chef, broadcaster and writer.
Campaign Gallery
“There is more and more research showing that good school lunches are associated with better child health, behaviour and attainment. Kids are our future, let’s feed them like it. We need to stop talking and start changing things in every school. The days of highly processed food being the norm should be far behind us, but no one is checking that the standards are being followed. School food has to be good to eat and good for our kids, so I support this campaign wholeheartedly.”
Thomasina Miers
Wahaca Co-Founder and former Masterchef winner.
NEWS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Want to see more, why not read some of our ‘Give a Sausage’ news articles, and updates from 2021.
PRESS RELEASE – GIVE A SAUSAGE
Culinary stars and food campaigner sign up to the school food revolution.
Give A Sausage
As we launch our Give A Sausage campaign, Naomi Duncan, our Chief Executive, shares her thoughts on what needs to change in school food.
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