The contracts for catering and hospitality services are with the University of Galway as well as three post-primary schools in the Republic and two in Northern Ireland.
The chefs will mentor, judge and support more than 7,000 secondary school-aged students from more than 400 schools and colleges around the UK.
The move, which follows years of research and campaigning on school meal debt by Scottish Greens MSP Ross Greer, was confirmed by Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth yesterday (18th December).
The service is the only local authority caterer in England to be awarded a ‘green traffic light’ by the Food Foundation.
City Hall’s ‘love your lunch’ challenge asked primary schoolchildren across the capital to create a piece of work in any medium along the theme ‘The best thing about school lunches is...'.
The 2024 School Chef of the Year (SCOTY) competition, which is sponsored by Bisto from Premier Foods, has been launched to find the nation’s best school chef.
Sodexo’s 23-strong team at Reed’s will continue to deliver meals for the 700 day pupils, 100 boarders and in the Sixth Form café. The five-year contract is valued at around £1.3m.
The donation is part of a 12 months of fundraising campaign by Grazing on behalf of Magic Breakfast.
Sustain believes the expansion would mean the UK farming industry could be supported while more children could be fed fresh, delicious, and seasonal home-grown fruit and vegetables.
It marks the second successive year The Pantry have walked away as winners at the event, having been named ‘Family Business of the Year’ in 2022.