In 2026, our Market Days were covered by three regional TV stations, six radio stations and 45 local and regional publications, including BBC Points West and BBC Spotlight, as well as BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Newcastle. Discover all the press coverage on the Young Marketeers webpage.
Education Business, Government Business, Public Sector Catering - Expansion of free school meals welcomed September 2026
Mirror Online, The Canary, The Caterer, The Grocer - Most secondary schools serve junk food to pupils - breaking healthy meals rules August 2026
Positive News - How schools are winning children over to healthier lunches August 2026
Education Today - Beyond the dining hall: how a wholeschool approach can help schools implement the new food standards June 2026
Charity Times - Leadership diaries: Coalitions, campaigns and classrooms May 2026
The Grocer - Can school food meals be revolutionised with no extra money? and There’s nothing funny about feeding kids ‘crap in the canteen’ April 2026
Education Business, Public Sector Catering - School food improvement programme for Cumberland April 2026
Public Sector Catering - Five organisations rally to support school food standards with £2.3m fund April 2026
BBC Radio Essex, BBC Radio London, Education Business, LBC Radio, Public Sector Catering, Times Radio - Plans to reform school food standards unveiled April 2026
The Guardian - Fried nuggets and steamed sponges off menu in school food overhaul in England April 2026
Education Business, Public Sector Catering - School food improvement programme Nourish launches in Birmingham April 2026
The i Paper - I feed my children healthily - but school lunches have them hooked on sugar March 2026
Education Business, Hitchen Nub News, Public Sector Catering - New school food programme set to launch across Hertfordshire March 2026
Education Business - Raising the bar for school food provision March 2026
The i Paper - My children's school meals were extortionate - and nutritionless junk food February 2026
Education Business, Education Today - Nourish programme sets roadmap for stronger school food policy January 2026
Schools Week - Schools face £47.5m free school meals expansion shortfall January 2026
Wicked Leeks - WL Meets: Stephanie Slater, chief executive of School Food Matters January 2026
Stir It Up - Sector Insights Interview: Stephanie Slater, founder and chief executive, School Food Matters January 2026
SW Londoner - London's wealth gap: Poor children twice as likely to be obese December 2025
The Charity Show podcast - School Food Matters: from parent campaign to national movement September 2025
Education Business, Public Sector Catering, Schools Week - Quarter of children in special schools not taking up their free school meals June 2025
Charity Times, Public Sector Catering, TES, The Grocer - School Food Matters CEO Stephanie Slater awarded MBE June 2025
The i Paper - 'I serve school dinners at state schools and private schools - here’s the difference' June 2025
The Caterer, The Mirror - Government to expand free school meals to 500,000 more children June 2025
The Guardian, The Independent, Schools Week, TES + more - 3p rise in free school meal funding will stretch school budgets, union warns April 2025
Borough Talks podcast - The drive for food education March 2025
Public Sector Catering - Briefing highlights healthy school & hospital meals could save NHS £50m a year March 2025
The Sunday Express - 'Turn the tide' on child health, Wes Streeting told March 2025
Daily Mail, The Big Issue, The Independent, The Mirror + more - One in four teachers spending own money to feed hungry pupils March 2025
Sky (FYI: Weekly News Show) - Young Marketeers Soup Sale at Borough Market February 2025
Fun Kids Radio - Borough Market Winter Soup Sale February 2025
