Bristol Healthy Schools Programme

The programme works across the whole of Bristol and aims to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people. The programme supports schools to empower children and young people by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to be able to make long term healthy lifestyle choices. A whole-school approach is used throughout and emphasis is placed on pupil voice.

The kids’ Cookery School

The Kids’ Cookery School (KCS) mission is to give as many children as possible in the UK a unique and fun cooking experience in order to help them make informed choices about food, and develop an understanding around health, diet and nutrition.

KCS is based in Acton, west London and has purpose-built kitchen facilities and can teach 12 children at a time. They are mobile too: KCS on wheels is a van with a portable, fully-equipped kitchen, delivering hands-on practical cookery and nutrition workshops wherever they are needed in the community.

Children’s Food Trust

The Children’s Food Trust is the national charity protecting every child’s right to eat better – and, so, to do better. Its vision is that all children have the balanced diet, cooking skills and food education they need for good health and to reach their full potential.

School Food Matters

The School Food Matters mission is to ensure that every child enjoys fresh sustainable food at school and understands where their food comes from.

Association of School and College Leaders

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) is the only professional association and trade union in Britain to speak exclusively for secondary school and college leaders.

LACA

The voice of the school food industry. LACA Ltd is the leading professional body representing 750 catering managers in local authorities, private contractors and individual schools who are providers of school meal service within primary and secondary schools throughout England, Wales and Scotland.

Soil Association Food for Life

Soil Association Food for Life  is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture. It aims to reach out through schools to give communities access to seasonal, local and organic food, and to the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food.

Garden Organic

Garden Organic, the UK’s leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.

NFU

The NFU champions British farming and provides professional representation and services to its farmer and grower members. It is the largest farming organisation in the UK, providing a strong, respected and independent voice for the industry.

Unison

UNISON is Britain and Europe’s biggest public sector union with more than 1.3 million members. Their members are people working in the public services, for private contractors providing public services and in the essential utilities.

Children’s Food Campaign

The Children’s Food Campaign aims to improve young people’s health and well-being through better food – and food teaching – in schools and by protecting children from junk food marketing.

Royal Horticultural Society

The RHS facilitates adult and children’s learning by offering a range of practical and academic gardening courses taking place in its four gardens as well as distance learning. Also, the RHS Campaign for School Gardening aims to support schools to actively use a school garden.

Children’s Society

The Children’s Society wants to create a society where children and young people are valued, respected and happy. We are committed to helping vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, including children in care and young runaways. We give a voice to disabled children, help young refugees to rebuild their lives and provide relief for young carers. Through our campaigns and research, we seek to influence policy and perceptions so that young people have a better chance in life.

Kids Company

Kids Company is a children’s charity providing wrap-around practical, emotional and educational support to extremely vulnerable children, 97 per cent of whom self refer via street levels centers or access Kids Company’s services in over 40 schools.

E-ACT

E-ACT is a leading education group, which currently sponsors 27 academies and two free schools.

Academy of Culinary Arts

Chefs Adopt a School is a national charity which teaches children – in a holistic way – about food: where it comes from, how to cook it, why we need it and its impact on the environment. We aim to instil knowledge and understanding about health, nutrition, hygiene, cooking skills, and the enjoyment and importance of cookery and eating together.

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Human Nutrition Research’s mission is to conduct nutrition research and surveillance to improve the health of the population with a focus on obesity and metabolic risk, musculoskeletal health, intestinal health and nutritional inequalities.

United Learning

United Learning is a group of schools which aims to provide excellent education to children and young people across the country. We are inclusive, welcoming children of all backgrounds, all faiths and none and all abilities, giving over 30,000 children an inspiring education. We seek to improve the life chances of all the children and young people we serve and make it our mission to bring out the best in everyone – students, staff, parents and the wider community.

The Association for Public Service Excellence

The Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) is a ‘not for profit’ membership organisation, supporting local authority in-house caterers in the delivery of efficient and high quality school meals services.

Magic Breakfast

Magic Breakfast is an independent charity providing free, healthy breakfasts to 6000 children in 200 primary schools all over the country. The charity aims to solve the problem of child hunger as a barrier to education for good – a hungry child cannot concentrate. The model works well – for example Magic Breakfast partner schools report an 88 per cent improvement in attendance – vital to attainment. We are passionate about closing the educational attainment gap and a healthy breakfast has a vital role to play.

Healthy Schools London (HSL)

Healthy Schools London (HSL) is an Awards Programme that will reach out to every London child, working with schools to improve children and young people’s well-being. It will use a whole-school approach to improve health and wellbeing, increase access to healthy food throughout the school day, provide opportunities to be more physically active, and reduce childhood obesity. Healthy Schools London will provide Awards for schools to recognise work that they are doing around health and wellbeing and childhood obesity linked to four key themes: personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), healthy eating, physical activity, emotional health and wellbeing and the school environment.

Defra

Defra is responsible for the development of the Government Buying Standard for Food and Catering Services which sets standards for public procurement. It is mandatory for central Government, under the Greening Government Commitments, and voluntary for the wider public sector, including schools. It covers sustainability, nutrition and catering operations – e.g. reducing waste.

Food – a fact of life

Food – a fact of life provides a wealth of free resources about healthy eating, cooking, food and farming for children and young people aged 3 to 16 years. The resources are progressive, stimulate learning and support the curriculum. All resources are designed to ensure that consistent and up-to-date messages are delivered.

Human Nutrition Research Centre

The Human Nutrition Research Centre at Newcastle undertakes research focused on food choice and obesity. The Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University seeks to transform the health of individuals and populations through pioneering translational research and education in public health, health services research and health-related social science.

Focus on Food

Focus on Food is a charitable food education programme that makes positive changes in the health and lifestyles of people across the UK. We support schools to deliver practical food education through our Cooking Buses (fully equipped mobile kitchens), teacher training, free COOK SCHOOL fresh resources and help with planning cooking into the curriculum.

Food Dudes Health

Food Dudes Health is a social enterprise devoted to improving children’s health and wellbeing. They have developed a range of programmes that employ behaviour change principles to increase children’s consumption of fruit and vegetables and decrease their intake of unhealthy snacks. These effects are long lasting and occur not just at school but also at home. By changing children’s diets in this way, Food Dudes makes a valuable contribution to the fight against obesity, and also promotes a wide range of other health benefits.

Growing Schools

The Growing Schools website has been designed to support teachers and practitioners in using the outdoor classroom as a resource across the curriculum for pupils of all ages. It is full of case studies, lesson ideas, outdoor activities and subject related materials. Where ever your outdoor classroom is, you can find resources to help bring lessons to life.

D&T Association

The Design and Technology Association – Inspiring, developing and supporting excellence in design and technology education for all. This Professional Association offers support, advice and subject leadership for all involved in Design and Technology education at all levels. Representing and listening to a large membership helps the Association develop and present a vision for the subject and represent the views of the subject community. We have over 1,000 food teacher members.