Join the London schools challenge!
Together we can grow our city and make London a healthier and more productive place to live now and for future generations. The momentum is already building with organisations and individuals all across London revolutionising food growing and cooking in schools. But it’ll take more than a few of us. We need EVERY school in London to get involved and start growing now.
Are you in?
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Sign up to the London School’s Challenge
Complete our survey and tell us what growing support your school needs and receive free food growing advice, and access to competitions, offers, events, training and more, via our events e-newsletter.
Then together we can grow a healthier, more productive London, starting with our schools.
What is all the fuss about?
All across London schools, local authorities, public health institutions, parents, teachers and even the Mayor of London, are starting to see the incredible benefits of growing food. Not only to improve children’s health, but to nurture key life skills across a multitude of curriculum subjects, encourage enterprise skills, improve behaviour, and to connect local communities in supporting them. Imagine what our city would be like for everyone if we achieved this aim!
Supported by the Mayor of London and the Big Lottery Fund, the launch of Food Growing Schools: London coincides with recent changes to Government school food policy and the introduction of the:
- School Food Plan (incl. increasing school meal uptake and free infant school meals)
- Cooking in the curriculum for all under 14s
- New GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition
Together they point to the significant impact that improvements to school food culture will have on our capital’s long-term stability, health and economic future.
Interested in getting your teeth stuck into some facts and figures?
Read our research findings to understand the nitty gritty of why food growing in schools is so important to London's future:
