Jamie Oliver on BBC Breakfast

It was good to see Jamie Oliver on BBC Breakfast this morning calling on parents to stand up and campaign to protect school food standards. Academies and free schools will not have to adhere to the standards which came as a result of the Feed me Better campaign in 2005. Already a third of our secondary schools could abandon the strict government guidelines that keep junk food off school menus.

At SFM we hope that all schools now value the standards, have seen the positive impact on behaviour and attainment, and will continue to implement them, but we call on Michael Gove to make them mandatory for all schools to safeguard children's health and well-being.

Food for Life Partnership are winners!

Huge congratulations to our friends at Food for Life Partnership who have just been awarded the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Derek Cooper Award at this year's Food and Farming Awards ceremony. The award recognises 'unsung heroes, whose work has increased our access to, and knowledge and appreciation of, good food'.

London Food Map

Those clever people at Sustain have put together a brilliant report to show how each of the London boroughs is doing in relation to food. SFM is delighted to report that Richmond has come out on top with Islington in this audit of progress on action to promote health and sustainability through good food. School meals have contributed to this fantastic achievement. Kingston too has shown great leadership in promoting food growing through its commitment to find new growing spaces for the Capital Growth campaign. How's your borough doing? Click here to read the full report.

SFM children featured in the Guardian

Click here to read about Feeding the 5000 in the Guardian. There's a lovely photo of the East Sheen Primary children enjoying their lunch, served by Boris Johnson and made from food diverted from landfill.

Junior Campaigners triumph in Trafalgar Square!

Junior campaigners from Grey Court School and East Sheen Primary were out in force today to support Feeding the 5000. School Food Matters invited 100 students to help distribute fruit and veg, that was destined for landfill, to grateful passersby. They also gave out a powerful message about the amount of perfectly good food that is wasted every day by businesses and households when 4 million people in the UK alone live in food poverty. The Bishop of London listened intently as Grey Court students explained why they had got involved.

Within two hours, charity partner Fareshare had served up delicious vegetable curry to 5000 people, with London's Mayor, Boris Johnson on hand to dish up lunch for children from East Sheen Primary.

All the students made excellent ambassadors and gathered hundreds of pledges from the crowds to reduce food waste.

Feeding the 5000

At SFM we're very much looking forward to our free lunch in Trafalgar Square tomorrow! Along with 100 students from two Richmond schools, we'll be handing out fresh fruit and veg that was destined for land fill and turning it into a delicious lunch for 5000 people. And you're all invited. For more info, go to the Feeding the 5000 website.

Jamie O's Manifesto

The half term break seemed to trigger much excitement in the world of school food with the launch of Jamie Oliver's Manifesto and the reaction and press response that followed. At SFM we salute this new push for a government commitment to healthy school meals and food education. SFM's work with the Food Growing in Schools Task Force gets a mention along with support for a continuation of the Food for Life Partnership's work in schools. Great to see partnership working amongst the movers and shakers in school food.