Nursery schools

The Food for Life Catering Mark offers nursery schools the opportunity to reassure parents. It provides a unique guarantee that food being served to their children is free from undesirable e-numbers like aspartame, tartrazine and MSG. At least 75% of meals are freshly prepared and no artificial trans fats or GM ingredients are used.

Almost one quarter of British children are overweight or obese by the time they start primary school. But there are currently no government standards for food served in nursery schools.

We know children need to get into good eating habits early on, to give them the best start in life. The Catering Mark offers nursery schools an independent award to confirm that what’s on the menu for children in your care is fresh and healthy.

The Food for Life Catering Mark has already transformed school meals for several hundred thousand children in England. Every day they’re eating fresh food which is free from undesirable additives and better for animal welfare.

Have a look at our Better Nursery Food Now campaign to find out more about why good food is so important for the under fives.

Busy Bees gains bronze Food for Life catering mark

Award holders

Gold

• Abbeywood Tots Day Nursery - 6 sites across Bristol
• Alliance in Partnership - 1 nursery and 2 children's centres in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
• Little Green Rascals - independent day nursery in York
• Plymouth Council - 2 nurseries
• Tall Trees Kindergarten - independent day nursery in Somerset
• The Farm Kitchen - serving meals to 5 nurseries
• Willoughby Foods - serving meals to 1 nursery

Silver

• Early Years Catering - serving meals to 38 nurseries across Bristol
• Monty's Nursery - 2 sites in London 

Bronze

• London Borough of Tower Hamlets - 9 nurseries
• North Bristol NHS Trust - 2 nurseries at Frenchay and Southmead hospitals
• Plymouth University creche
• Busy Bees - 129 nurseries across England and Wales