In 2022, Matthew Mealing, Associate Director of Campus Services for Estates and Facilities at the University of Salford, commissioned Bremner & Co to conduct a review of the campus food and beverage offer. At that time, catering, retail and hospitality conference facilities had been outsourced to Chartwells for nearly 10 years, with the contract soon […]
Building a ‘sticky campus’: a food and beverage strategy Read More »
Bite Back is a youth activist movement set up to challenge the food system to drive healthier, higher standards. It works with 80 young people, aged 13-21 and from across England, on campaigns like restricting junk food advertising and extending eligibility for free school meals. In 2022, Bite Back piloted the Food Systems Accelerator Programme
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Tower Hamlets became the first borough in the UK to extend Universal Free School Meals (UFSM) to both primary and secondary school students in 2022. Evidence indicates UFSM can address food insecurity, reduce stigma associated with means-tested Free School Meals, and tackle child hunger. In Tower Hamlets, a borough where 48% of children live in
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