The latest news and headlines from City Catering
We’ve joined the Good Grub Club family!
This summer, City Catering has joined the Good Grub Club family! The perfect blend of both our Lunch Crowd and Cooking at Home initiatives, Milbrook’s Good Grub Club has previously been ran by housing association, Abri who have switched to funding the programme. In partnership with the wonderful team at Colne Avenue Baptist Church we kicked off running the club with a fab session last week.
Government u-turns on holiday food support
Over the weekend, the Government announced in the media that they were now (despite earlier votes to not) going to support vulnerable families and children at risk of food insecurity over the winter months. We were, of course, delighted with this decision as it recognises the increased need that families are experiencing right now. It has something that we have been watching closely in recent months.
Offering holiday food provision support during the summer
A look at our Lunch Crowd project this support, supporting families at risk of food poverty across Southampton
Why timely guidance and support on Free School Meals is vital
There are so many different aspects of this pandemic that is placing pressure on households, business and services. A huge concern for us, as school caterers and advocates for equal access to good food, is the access to healthy food and the challenges that Covid-19 creates. The Free School Meal scheme, in ordinary times, allows for many children to access a healthy, hot meals that they otherwise may not be able to access. Many families struggle to afford food. For many, this can means no hot meal, at all. Or parents skipping meals to ensure that their children remain fed. We already know that this risks present itself more so in the school holidays, when the scheme is not running. This happens, up and down the country, and a pandemic and the financial crisis that looms does little to prevent this very real risk from increasing.
