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Cordia launches healthy eating outlets in city schools

14 May 2013

As well as the installation of these cafés, the company has also opened three new external food huts in All Saints, St Paul’s, and St Thomas Aquinas secondary schools.

Glaswegian comedian Des Clarke was joined by pupils from Springburn Academy to officially launch Café Mezz by cutting the red ribbon in the facility.

Innovate Services revamps George Abbot School’s catering

30 April 2013

Innovate Services, the innovative school catering operator, has launched brand new catering facilities at George Abbot School in Guildford, which has seen the number of students using the facilities at least treble.

Innovate has revamped facilities in three areas of the school, which currently has over 1,970 students. All have been designed to provide an increased menu choice, including a ‘World Food’ concept in one building. All have introduced an environment where both students and staff can relax or socialise.

Unilever Food Solutions works with school caterers to support World Food Programme

22 April 2013

Unilever Food Solutions has pledged its support to the World Food Programme, and its aim to end child hunger in Indonesia, by working with school caterers during World Hunger Awareness (20-24 May 2013).

With 500 million children currently at risk of malnutrition across the world, James Allred, channel manager at Unilever Food Solutions UK, explained how the company is working towards supporting this global issue.

County launches drive to increase numbers claiming free school meals

25 March 2013

Derbyshire County Council is launching a campaign which aims to make sure that all school pupils entitled to free school meals claim them.

There are 3,000 school pupils in Derbyshire not getting their free school lunch, according to figures released by the Government.

The campaign includes posters in buses, leaflets and posters sent to hundreds of places across Derbyshire, and schools sending the message out to parents.

Councillor Mike Longden, cabinet member for education, said: "We want to make sure that every pupil entitled to a free school lunch gets one.

The Children’s Food Trust launches accreditation scheme

21 March 2013

The Children’s Food Trust has launched its first ever annual accreditation scheme to help schools show parents their commitment to helping children eat well.

The Children’s Food Trust Award – launched at the charity’s annual conference this week - will be open to any early years setting or school which can show it’s taking an integrated approach to offering healthy food and drink for children.

PACE Awards 2013 –winners announced

19 March 2013

Representatives of the hospitality and catering training and education sector gathered at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham on 12 March to honour colleagues whose dedication, passion and innovative approach champion best practice and enrich education in the UK hospitality industry.

The 2013 PACE Awards winners are:
• Partnership with Industry Awards– Blackpool &The Fylde College.

Footprint Awards 2013 – entry deadline March 29

12 March 2013

Organisers of the annual Footprint Awards are looking for entries for the 2013, with a deadline of March 29 for nominations.

A spokesman said: “The Footprint Awards represent the annual celebration of the work that organisations in the foodservice industry and supply chain are doing to in some way redress the balance for the benefit of themselves, their community and the industry at large.

“It is a celebration of initiative and innovation, of commercial imagination and endeavour.

National School Meals Week campaign ‘highly commended’

11 March 2013

LACA’s campaign for National School Meals Week (NSMW) in 2011 has been highly commended by judges at the recent Marketing Excellence Awards run by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

Judges said: “The Marketing Excellence Awards celebrate the best marketing achievements across various industry sectors and acknowledge the contributions made by individuals as well as by teams.

“Winning a CIM Marketing Excellence Award means that you have created results that deliver real business benefits.

School caterers Alliance in Partnership win Gold Standard for second year running

6 March 2013

The event, which took place last week, saw over 200 delegates from 120 leading UK caterers gather together to attend.

The awards recognised the serving of ethical and environmentally sustainable food, and the assembled caterers' commitment to providing freshly-prepared meals to schools, nurseries, hospitals, care homes, universities and workplaces around the country.

The caterers won the award once again for its 26 contracts in the London Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea region.

£5.45bn budget for new local authority public health services

5 March 2013

A £5.45bn two-year, ring-fenced public health budget for local authorities has been announced as responsibility for taking the lead in improving public health switches from NHS trusts to local authorities on April 1.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that at this would help drive local efforts to improve health and wellbeing in their communities by tackling the wider determinants of poor health.