The Focus on Food campaign was founded by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) to promote and strengthen the status of practical food education in primary and secondary schools.

The campaign aims to:

Improve teacher training
Improve teacher recruitment
Improve teaching facilities in schools
Ensure all school inspections include food education
Implement a whole school approach to food in all schools
Make food education compulsory in all primary and secondary schools.

The campaign runs a Cooking Bus in partnership with the Food Standards Agency. The bus delivers food education support and intervention in the form of inspirational onboard cooking workshops for primary and secondary schools.

Focus on Food run a Cooking Bus for Wales in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government. The Bus will target primary schools in Communities First areas in Wales which are part of the Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes, and which are undertaking actions on food and fitness.

Last updated: 22/12/2009