The project will be supported and guided by a Project Advisory Group made up of practitioners from across the supply chain, from school food suppliers to commissioners.
Councillor Doherty helped secure £250,000 in funding as part of Belfast City Council’s £1m hardship fund package.
Mark, who worked at a number of restaurants in the Gordon Ramsay empire including opening the acclaimed Gordon Ramsay at Claridges, now runs his own restaurant 'The Restaurant MS' in Folkestone.
The contract includes the delivery of the catering, hospitality, retail and domestic services at Wellington College as well as the hospitality and domestic services for Eagle House, the preparatory
Educaterers provides 120,000 meals a week in over 180 primary schools in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Birmingham, Coventry, and Staffordshire.
Both certifications show a drive and desire from both councils to serve healthy and sustainable school meals.
In late 2023, Maz and Nikita from the Vegetarian Society Cookery School team visited St John’s School to view the school catering service.
According to research 80% of children in the UK are not eating enough vegetables and a third of children are eating less than one portion a day.
The Good School Food Awards celebrate the amazing catering teams, holiday programmes, campaigners and unsung heroes who, day in and day out, go the extra mile to make sure Britain’s schoolchildren
Data from the National Child Measurement Programme shows more than one in five children (22.3%) in England aged four to five years-old and more than one in three (37.8%) aged ten to 11 years-old ar