At the age of 9, my oldest child initiated a 'Food Waste' group, later refered to as the 'Food Save' group. She couldn't understand why her peers would throw perfectly good and edible food under the table. After she reported her observations to the head of school, and expressing her concerns, a meeting was called.

The meeting with the children, aged 8 and 9 were then to discuss food waste, it's social and ecological impact, and the ways to prevent to food waste. Growing and processing, transporting, distributing, preparing, consuming, and wasting food creates Greenhouse gasses that contribute to climate change. About a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is linked to food.

They designed a poster, and inspired the creation of a permaculture garden in the shool's yard, with a compost heap.

• 100 buckets of water to produce just one loaf of bread

• 54 buckets of water to rear one chicken breast

• 6 buckets of water to grow one potato

• one bucket of water to grow one tomato

• for 1kg of food waste over 2.5kg of CO2 is emitted

  
  

We have brought forward a proposal to install a Mini Food Bank on the premises to support the children at the school (and surrounding areas). A mini food bank is going to be installed at the Chandos Community Centre, and we are working on setting up a food hub, that operates as a link between food surplus donations and families in need.