In the press
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BBC News - School food is a “nutritional safety net”, but not enough families have access to free school meals
BBC London News - Young Marketeers selling fruit and veg at Borough Market
BBC News - SFM responding to warnings school food quality could fall
LBC - "We need to expand free school meals eligibility"
C5 News - SFM responds to National Food Strategy white paper
BBC News - Government's Food Strategy falls short
The Grocer - Is childhood obesity at a tipping point? 17 November 2023
New Food Magazine - Stepping up to the plate: Antonia Braun 16 November
New Statesman - Labour must expand free school meals 6 October 2023
iNews - Government scraps £5m plan to fund school cooking ‘revolution’ 24 September 2023
London Live - Should free school meals be extended to secondary students? 12 September 2023
Financial Times - The numbers behind London’s free school lunch scheme 4 September 2023
The Independent - Calls for government to protect children’s free school meals in face of ‘Aero’ concrete closures 1 September 2023
Food Matters Live - Why food education matters more now than ever before 17 May 2023
The Independent - School meals ‘should be free for all just like desks and chairs’ 9 March 2023
The Independent - Children missing out on fruit and vegetables as food shortage hits school dinners 5 March 2023
France 24 and Barron's - England families struggle to afford school lunch as inflation bites 16 December 2022
Food Matters Live - National School Meals Week – fighting to improve our childrens’ food 11 November 2022
Evening Standard - Poor diets ‘are leaving children at risk of fatal diseases’ 19 October 2022
Evening Standard - Calls grow to give free school meals to all children in poverty 12 October 2022
The Independent - School meals industry ‘on its knees’ faced with shortages and rising costs 10 October 2022
The Organic Gardening Podcast - Rampant squashes, late colour and bumper chilli harvests; autumn has definitely arrived 01 October 2022
Food Matters Live - Inside the factory – the school kids getting a taste of the food industry 7 September 2022
Chronicle Live - Newcastle primary school children set up stalls of fruit and vegetables at Grainger Market 18 July 2022
The Express - Fears parents won't be able to feed children as economic crisis hikes staple food prices 17 July 2022
Stroud Times - Young Marketeers provide boost for The Long Table 15 July 2022
BBC Radio Gloucestershire - Young Marketeers Stroud 15 July 2022
LBC, Capital, Heart and Smooth Radio - Young Marketeers Newcastle 14 July 2022
BBC Radio Merseyside - Young Marketeers Liverpool 12 July 2022
The Grocer - Asda fighting ‘school holiday hunger’ by feeding kids for £1 in store cafés 8 July 2022
Stir it up Magazine - Educating the Educators 05 July 2022
BBC News - SFM responding to warnings school food quality could fall 4 July 2022
Telegraph - The forces making our children unhealthy and diabetic 27 June 2022
Plate Talks - English, Maths, Food Education 27 June 2022
Schools Week - Government food strategy: A disappointment but not the end 18 June 2022
Food Matters Live - Responses to the Government Food Strategy: good intentions but no action plan for real change 15 June 2022
Schools Week - Government food strategy shelves most schools recommendations 13 June 2022
BBC News - Government's Food Strategy falls short 13 June 2022
Channel 5 News - SFM responds to National Food Strategy white paper 13 June 2022
Children & Young People Now - Push for ‘urgent’ free school meals expansion as cost of living soars 31 May 2022
LBC - "We need to expand free school meals eligibility" 29 May 2022
Patient - How to keep your child eating healthily at secondary school - 26 May 2022
The Mirror, The Times, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, The Express and Metro -
Parents urged to give kids more fruit and veg as just 1 in 60 school lunchboxes healthy
6 May 2022
Pro Landscaper Magazine - Building vegetable patches with School Food Matters 6 May 2022
iNews - Free school meals: Over 100,000 children and parents could be shunning scheme due to stigma, analysis shows 15 February 2022
iNews - Parents can’t afford to take children to school and pupils are embarrassed to say they’re hungry, head warns 10 February 2022
The Express - Charity School Food Matters steps in with food boxes for families missing out on support 16 December 2021
Evening Standard - Full of beans: London’s youngest farmers bring their harvest to Borough Market 6 October 2021
BBC London - Young Marketeers Harvest Sale 5 October 2021
The Grocer - Government seeking national supplier for £24m school breakfast contract 9 April 2021
The Guardian - Food poverty: rising number of children in England eligible for free school meals 30 March 2021
The Guardian - School Food Matters delivers millionth Breakfast Box 30 March 2021
The Guardian - 'One meal a day': how pandemic hit families before Unicef's aid 18 December 2020
The Mirror - Unicef to feed hungry children in the UK for first time in 70-year history 16 December 2020
Daily Mail - UN aid agency Unicef will help feed BRITISH children for the first time in its history as officials liken Covid's impact on youngsters to that of WWII 16 December 2020
Sky News - COVID-19: For the first time in its history UNICEF will help feed children in the UK 16 December 2020
The Sun - 'Marcus Rashford backs Unicef after it steps in to feed 15,000 British kids over Christmas' 1 November 2020
The Independent - 'Around three in 10 school-aged children are on free school meals, research claims' 12 October 2020
The Guardian - 'Free School Dinners led to fall in childhood obesity rates' 8 March 2020
Women in the Food Industry - An interview with Stephanie Slater 8 January 2020