The long-serving BFS Group executive director has long experience as a foodservice industry networker with all the important contacts in his book.
In 2019 he was awarded an MBE for his ‘outstanding services to the foodservice and hospitality industry’, work for which he was also awarded an honorary degree by the University of West London.
He has used that influence to push the Government of the day repeatedly to increase the funding of school meals, sending letters to both Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss showing that the £2.41 allocation for universal infant free school meals should be closer to £3 to account for food price inflation.
He sits on the board of the One For All Foundation, and has worked closely with school meals organisation LACA and the All Party Parliamentary Group on School Food.
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