British Food Fortnight School Case Studies 2022

What did you do for British Food Fortnight? We included British Food Fortnight in the marketing calendar and pre-delivered marketing assets for our schools, so the posters and artwork was readily available. All of our schools celebrated from the 17 th September to the 2 nd October and we briefed the operators and school teams on the purpose of the event, as well as provided food menu templates and digital marketing assets to create excitement throughout the schools. Everyone was really engaged with the celebration. We followed this by running an internal challenge for our schools to share images of their schools with the British fortnight branding, which provided us with many fantastic images as shown below: 

Washingborough Academy incorporates food education lessons into the children’s timetable, and the British Food Fortnight was a time to highlight how the school supports local producers all year round.

Special British dishes were added to the patient menu Stockport NHS trust supported British Food Fortnight with the chefs creating special dishes which were added to the patient menus using all British produce. As pictured below, the patient menu on the 28 th September highlighted minted pea and watercress soup, steak and ale pie and lemon posset with Scottish raspberries.

What they did With it being the first year celebrating Love British Food Fortnight / Love Northern Irish food – things were taken in small bite size. We picked 3 dishes – A creamy leak and potato soup, a traditional steak pie with champ and carrots and a apple crumble with crea  m – all of the ingredients for these dishes were sourced locally.

Ryan Hanson, Head of catering and retail at the Royal Agricultural University explains how they celebrated British Food Fortnight 

How did you celebrate this year? Love British Food Fortnight this year fell into a strange period, a few weeks earlier we gained a new Prime Minister and lost our beloved Queen. As there had already been so much uncertainty and disruption to the lives of young people due to the earlier events that month, we decided to celebrate the fortnight with two of our most loved British dishes: Roast Dinner and Fish and Chips, both of which are popular with pupils across our schools. Which suppliers did you use? Our suppliers are local to the Blackpool and Lancashire area, Trevor’s being on our doorstep in Blackpool and Ribble Farm Fare based in Longridge. What we plan to improve on next year We will ensure that we work with the kitchens and SLT teams in the schools in the summer term to prepare for British Food Fortnight the following September, meaning those first few transition weeks for schools can go ahead, with schools knowing that exciting preparations are in place ready to integrate Love British Food Fortnight into their curriculum. Tips for other schools wanting to take part As Love British Food Fortnight often falls around Harvest Festival when younger children to learn about Harvest, it is an idea to extend the topic area to cover this too – it’s an excellent opportunity for school communities to get together and share their love for British Food.

What they did for British Food Fortnight The autumn term menu at Quinton House already incorporated a range of British Produce, as the school feels it is important to support British producers all year round – however British Food Fortnight was a time to focus on the celebration of British food, with the school chefs cooking up special dishes within the two-week period.

How was British Food Fortnight 2022 celebrated? This year’s event was organised by Laura Naughton, Head of Food and Nutrition, joint by a local farmer and parent Jenny Shaylor. The school gymnasium was transformed into a ‘British Food Hub’ in which the year 7 pupils rotated around to meet local Cotswold producers. The workshop had a strong focus on sustainable food production and regenerative agriculture, allowing the pupils to gain a true insight into the "Field to Fork" process, learning about growing and producing food and then tasting the end products too!