Posted:
Wednesday - December 22, 2021
12:56 pm
Fulbridge Academy is an award-winning Peterborough primary school with nursery. It is part of a Multi-Academy Trust and supports over 900 children. While the lunch provision is catered for separately, the Academy joined FareShare Midlands in early 2020 to provide food for breakfast and after-school clubs, and food parcels for vulnerable parents. The Peterborough Child Poverty Strategy 2016-21 says “Poverty in Peterborough is higher than the national average. Using the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index1 (IDACI) analysis, 25% of children in Peterborough are living in poverty, compared to 17% nationally”.The Academy receives a delivery of good quality fresh and frozen food from FareShare Midlands every week during term-time. In addition, to help more families, they perform a daily collection of Ocado food 7 days a week. The Ocado collections can vary from 1 bag to 25 bags – so, together with the FareShare deliveries, there can be a huge amount of food to sort, store and utilise.
There is a food bank on each of the two Academy sites, with one open on Thursdays and one on Fridays. Furthermore, to ensure every foodstuff is used, items such as tea and coffee are occasionally utilised to boost staff wellbeing. And at this time of year, a few of the supplies are collected into hampers to be given as presents or prizes for parents and pupils.Anna, parent of two children at Fulbridge said 'I'm very grateful that Fulbridge is able to help me with food when I need it. It makes a big difference to me and my children'.
Aaiqa, Yr4 parent said “Thank you to Mr Edwards for inviting me into school to select food. It's helping me at home feeding my children”.
Zubaid, parent of 3 children attending Fulbridge, said “I'm really happy that Fulbridge is helping me and my family with food”.
Ben Erskine (Principle) and Sam Smee (Operations & Business Leader) are committed to growing the ways the Academy can help redistribute surplus food, while feeding pupils and local families in need. Staff have shown their support by participating selflessly in all the activities needed to run the operation successfully.
Ben said “Thanks to our incredible partnership with FareShare Midlands we have been able to do more to support our whole school community through recent difficult times and into the future”.
Find out more about the Fulbridge Academy here.
Find out more about getting food from FareShare Midlands here.
