The ASSET Food Project
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See that pile of packaging? We made that pile from one shared lunch of 200 children and adults at our Food Summit in November 2024!
We have been on a mission to transform our school dinners and the impact that our food choices have on our health and wellbeing, and on the planet!
This work wasn't going to be easy - so we asked our children to lead it! We've been funded by Ormiston Trust to empower our young leaders in our schools to identify the reasons children choose not to eat school dinners and to carry out projects that will tackle those challenges.
The children's work has been recognised by Jamie Oliver himself, as our children won the Jamie Oliver Good School Food Leaders Award in June 2025! Here's their story...
After our Food Summit every school in ASSET went away with £500 to solve one of the challenges to children eating a healthy school dinner. What followed was an incredible story of whole school taste-testing, allotment growing, cooking lessons and community restaurants in each of our schools. In July 2025 they presented their projects back to a public audience at the Hope Church, sharing everything that they had learned, and their ambitions for a better food education and school meal service. In the meantime, the ASSET central team went to work bringing our school meal service in-house so that we could deliver everything that they asked for.
Our ASSET Arrows, our trust-wide Pupil Parliament, worked with Spring Agency in Southwold to design new branding for the new school meal service. We spent lots of time getting the name right - but here it is!
Our dining rooms will now be called Lunch Hubs and will be designed with the new branding - we're so excited. Thank you Spring!
Copy of ASSET Arrows Recipe Book - blurred face.pdfThe Recipe Book
Children in our ASSET schools asked their school communities what were the recipes they loved most and represented them best.
Every school submitted a selection of recipes, which are collected here in our new recipe book.
Our school menu will change each half term and cycle through many of the recipes collected by our children, so that their school dinners really are theirs.
Feel free to download the recipe book and try some of the meals. You don't need to, but if you would like to make a donation you can do so here. You can also pick up a physical recipe book in our schools.
Happy cooking!
Love our story?
You can read more about it here. You can also follow us on Instragram @asset_education to see how our dining rooms are shaping up and how our new school meals are looking.
We are excited about the future and developing a really vibrant school meal offer alongside an exciting food education, and campaigning for a better food environment for our children. If you are interested in talking to us about our work, email info@asseteducation.co.uk
We're grateful to be sponsored in this project by:
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