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Catering & hospitality

Lifetime achievement award for Brookwood's founding partners

Founding partners of the Brookwood Partnership, Kate Martin and Sue Parfett, received the acco...

A taste of the future

From the conclusion of Brexit to organic foods, Sue Parfett discusses what 2018 will look lik...

The recipe for future success

Marie Sidoli, Kings Monkton's new assistant head and food technology teacher, takes on the you...

Making a meal of it

Pupil expectations are rising as palates become sophisticated, and school caterers have to be ...

Brookwood and Our Lady's Abingdon: a perfect partnership

Lucinda Reid visits Our Lady's Abingdon to discover how they have embraced a café culture with...

How to balance food trends and pupil nutrition

Pelican Procurement explains how they show parents and pupils that school menus are nutritiona...

Brookwood on how catering can play a vital role in boarding

Sue Parfett, from The Brookwood Partnership, discusses how catering plays a vital role in 21st...

Keeping it in-house

Thomas's London Day Schools explain why they decided to move from contract catering to in-hous...

The place to eat

Catering Design Group reveal their redesign for The Beacon's catering facilities

The power of food

Holroyd Howe explains how to make sure pupils have a positive relationship with food in school...

A big meal deal at King's School Taunton

The school reveals their million-pound contract with Independents by Sodexo

Be good to yourself

Brookwood Partnership's Sue Parfett and Amanda Ursell talk sports nutrition in school catering...

LES have a school lunch uptake of 89%

Joy Johnstone, Operations Manager at Loughborough Endowed Schools, reveals the secret behind h...

Can you reduce your costs by changing the way you buy?

Simon Gurney, Procurement Manager at Pelican Procurement Services, shares some practical tips ...

Why teachers need to be taught about nutrition

Roy Ballam, Manging Director and Head of Education at the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), ...

More water please!

BRITA Vivreau discusses how water can improve pupils' well-being

How can school caterers help pupils' well-being?

Sue Parfett reveals how engaging pupils in food and nutrition can help to ease stress

State-of-the-art school catering with Brookwood

Sue Parfett, Managing Partner of The Brookwood Partnership, discusses time-saving modern appli...

Loughborough Endowed Schools

Joy Johnstone, Operations Manager at Loughborough Endowed Schools, reveals the secret behind h...

CH&Co Group retains ISO certifications across estate

The Brookwood Partnership and ABsolutely Catering are now also included in the Group's certifi...

CH&Co Group gets Gold for health and safety

This is CH&Co Group's first year of entry into the RoSPA?s scheme

Food for thought: what is a school lunch like today?

Steve Wright rounds up the key trends and innovations across independent school catering

How to keep oily fish on the school menu

Balancing cost with compliance: How to keep oily fish on the school menu

Don't bottle it up

Stephen Charles, MD at BRITA Vivreau, explains why independent schools should take advantage o...

Forgive me for what I said when I was hungry...

Tim Wilbur, Director of Schools Consultancy at Gabbitas Education, looks at school dinners - p...

A healthy balance

Sutton Valence School reveal how they made their catering efficient and cost-effective by work...

Brookwood increases Habs Girls lunch uptake by 20%

Editor Lucinda Reid visited Haberdashers' Aske's School to find out how The Brookwood Partners...

Food glorious food

The Downs School explains how their new approach to food means that pupils always have an appe...

Lifting the lid on packed lunches

Amy Roberts, Director of Nutrition and Food Development at Holroyd Howe, discusses the importa...

How school caterers can help reduce children's sugar intake

Brookwood's Sue Parfett talks to Amanda Ursell about how school caterers can help parents to r...

Manchester High for Girls celebrate Founders' Day with cake

Over 900 pupils received a slice of birthday cake for the school's 143rd birthday

GBBO winner Candice Brown opens Wycombe Abbey café

The school was delighted to welcome the 2016 Great British Bake Off winner

Is there too much sugar in your child's breakfast?

Public Health England warn that children are consuming half their daily recommended sugar allo...

Food on the go

Sarah West, a nutritionist for Zebedees, explains why it is important for pupils to understand...

Eat well, live well

Phil Mann at Reigate Grammar School, explains why good nutrition is vital for athletes, but it...

Insight from the experts

With each new year, comes new challenges, so Brookwood's Sue Parfett looks at how politics is ...

Insight from the experts

What did you have for lunch at school today? Brookwood's Sue Parfett explains how caterers can...

Insight from the experts

Does Generation Z have a different relationship with food to earlier generations? Brookwood's ...

Winter fuel

From gingerbread houses to a stint on the Antarctic ice, Steve Wright presents some seasonal n...

HOT TOPIC: cutting back on sugar

Amanda Ursell, Consultant Nutritionist, CH&Co Group, looks at sugar in school catering