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🚀 A new chapter begins for #SchoolFoodMatters!

We’ve just launched our 2025–2030 Strategy - a bold vision to transform #SchoolFood and #FoodEducation in England!
April 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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In 2024, #SchoolFoodMatters delivered more #FoodEducation than ever before. Children nationwide have been #growing their own fruits and veg, helping them understand where food comes from.

Help us do more next year: Donate to our #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge 👇
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December 4, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Huge congratulations to our Founder & CE, Stephanie Slater, on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Roehampton! This award celebrates the revolution she started with #SchoolFoodMatters, transforming children’s access to nutritious #SchoolFood & vital #FoodEducation. We salute you 🫡
January 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🎙️ This week: Stephanie Slater MBE, founder CEO of #SchoolFoodMatters, the charity that has been transforming children’s experiences of food in schools for almost two decades.

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September 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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🎉 Explaining the School Food Review & the progress made on it so far...

🎙️ Stephanie Slater MBE, founder CEO of @schoolfoodmatters.bsky.social chats to #TheCharityShow about this transformational charity.

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September 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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😀 How many times have you done charity comms on the fly...

🎙️ Stephanie Slater MBE founder CEO #SchoolFoodMatters tells how she was putting the press release together for the #SchoolFoodReview on the steps of the Department of Education!

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September 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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The government has an opportunity to unlock our next generation's potential. #SchoolFoodMatters manifesto details how we achieve this through delicious & nutritious #SchoolFoodForAll + excellent #FoodEducation 👇

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Our Manifesto 2024
School Food Matters exists to teach children about food and to improve children’s access to healthy, sustainable food during their time at school.
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November 19, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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🥳 #SchoolFoodMatters is nominated in the Charity Film Awards!

Our #SchoolsToMarket film celebrates teaching children where food comes from through fun, hands-on experiences. #FoodEducation #OutdoorLearning

🎬 Help us get shortlisted - please vote here 👇

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Schools to Market
Schools to Market, run in partnership with Whole Kids, is a food education programme that takes children and young people through every step of the food…
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November 22, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Our #YoungMarketeers in #Leicester have kicked off the first #SchoolFoodMatters Market Day of the summer. The community has come out in droves to buy their fresh school-grown fruit and veg. Plus, local TV and radio are capturing all the excitement! #FoodEducation
June 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Our data revealed that cash-strapped schools across England are using their own budgets to feed hungry children. #SchoolFoodMatters

Read more 👇

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'Pupils are coming to school so hungry they're falling asleep', headteacher says
Teachers report being forced to intervene, with four in 10 (38%) saying their school is offering free dinners to hungry children who don't qualify for free school meals
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November 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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🎙️ "The power of optimism" is super important in the charity sector says Stephanie Slater MBE, founder CEO of
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September 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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I'm thrilled to see Canada's #NationalSchoolFoodPolicy released in my home province today! Most of all, I'm so happy to see the principles that we published in 2018 show up in the policy! #ResearchIntoPractice #SchoolFoodMatters canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...
View of The case for a Canadian national school food program
Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems
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June 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Today marks a major milestone for #SchoolFoodMatters! 🎉 We’re excited to unveil our new Strategy for 2025-2030. Our Founder/CE, Stephanie Slater, shares the vision behind the Strategy + how it will shape our work to create a happier, healthier future for every child.

Read the blog 👇
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Our new five-year Strategy to create a happier, healthier future for every child
Today marks a significant milestone for School Food Matters (SFM) as we unveil our new Strategy for 2025–2030.
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April 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🎉 It’s been Market Day galore at #SchoolFoodMatters - we’ve never hosted so many in just one week! Children across the country proudly sold their school-grown produce and chutneys, sharing the fruits of their labour with local communities and raising ££ for great causes.
July 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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All proceeds will benefit the Bedford Food Bank, supporting local families in need...

#Bedford #BedfordNews #YoungMarketeers #SchoolFoodMatters #BedfordFoodBank
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July 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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📢 Calling all primary schools!

Our friends at @schoolfoodmatters.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar to help primary schools establish and run successful #BreakfastClubs serving tasty, nutritious food.

🗓️ When: 21 Jan 2025, 12-1pm
💻 Sign up: bit.ly/4aomNyx

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Text, white and yellow on maroon background. School Food Matters Webinar, 21 January 2025 Better Breakfasts! Helping schools deliver tasty and nutritious breakfasts. [yellow School Food Matters logo]
January 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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#SchoolFoodMatters has responded to the government’s call for evidence on the curriculum review. We’ve asked policymakers to prioritise #FoodEducation and provided steps to ensure all children leave school ready to live healthy, happy lives 👇
www.schoolfoodmatters.org/news-views/n...
School Food Matters urges focus on food education in curriculum review
The first Curriculum and Assessment Review in over a decade sparks calls for a whole school approach and standalone food education subject.
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November 20, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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The government has published detailed guidance for early adopters of its free breakfast club programme, emphasising that school food standards apply! #SchoolFoodMatters

Here’s what you need to know: www.schoolfoodmatters.org/news-views/n...
The government publishes arrangements for breakfast club early adopters
The Department for Education has published detailed guidance for early adopters of its free breakfast club programme, emphasising that school food standards apply!
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January 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#InternationalSchoolMealsDay feels even more special after yesterday's big event! 🎉

#SchoolFoodMatters came together with our #SchoolFoodReview partners, headteachers, parents, and young people to make a powerful statement in Parliament about the benefits of #SchoolFoodForAll.
March 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It’s been a jam-packed week - and we’re not just talking about the strawberry kind!

More than 1,100 children and young people took part in our various fully funded #FoodEducation programmes. #SchoolFoodMatters

Here’s a taste of what happened:
July 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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📢 NEW EP: Fantastic to welcome Stephanie Slater MBE, the inspirational Chief Exec @schoolfoodmatters.bsky.social on to this week's show to discuss the charity's journey from parental mission to national policy-changing powerhouse.

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September 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🚨 New episode Monday - we’ve got a great interview with Stephanie Slater, CEO of @schoolfoodmatters.bsky.social - who’s just been awarded an MBE for her work to improve school meals and children’s relationship with food.

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September 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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📢 New polling by #SchoolFoodMatters reveals:

🍽️ 1 in 5 teachers report more children are too hungry to learn today vs the start of the academic year.
💰 1 in 4 teachers have personally bought food for hungry children
👩‍🏫 The majority of teachers support #SchoolFoodForAll

Read more:
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March 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🌟 Local children will be selling school-grown 🍎 fruit and 🥦 veg at @LeedsMarket this Friday 4 July as part of the #YoungMarketeers programme by @SchoolFoodMatters🌱
All the ££ raisedwill go to Incredible Edible Leeds. 
📅 Friday 4 July from 11am-1pm, at Kirkgate Market.
Markey Day A child holding veg
June 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Happy #InternationalSchoolMealsDay! 🎉

At #SchoolFoodMatters, we're excited to share some fantastic resources with you, including tasty & nutritious recipes, helpful #SchoolFood shopping lists, and expert tips for adopting a positive whole-school approach to food. 🍽️✨ #ISMD2025

👉 bit.ly/4kN0kje
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We work with schools everyday. Make use of our helpful resources for food education, school food policy, and more.
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March 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM