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Jamie Oliver To Award School Heroes

Jamie Oliver will be presenting the Soil Association School Food Awards 2006, held in partnership with Organix - now open for entries from primary schools across the UK. These prestigious Awards will celebrate schools that have made a huge effort to provide delicious, fresh, healthy, local, organic food for their pupils.

The Awards are open to all UK state primary schools that are providing healthy, freshly prepared school meals. They must be working toward sourcing local and organic food for the daily school meals that meet the Soil Association Food for Life targets of 75 per cent unprocessed, 50 per cent local and 30 per cent organic ingredients.

There are four Soil Association School Food Awards categories:

Soil Association Food for Life School of the Year
£5000 of kitchen equipment will be awarded to an inspirational school which best reflects the spirit of the Soil Association’s Food for Life programme and targets and which makes sure the whole school is involved in developing and improving the school meal.

Organix Best Food Education Award
£2500 of kitchen equipment will be awarded to the school carrying our inspirational education about food and where it comes from as well as serving a tasty and good quality school meal.

Hobart Best School Dinner Award
£2500 of kitchen equipment will be awarded to the school, which serves up delicious food and is working to develop a strong food culture and understanding of food throughout the school.

Organix School Food Hero Award
For the first year, this Award will recognise one special individual who has worked hard to make a real difference – a cook, teacher, campaigner, local authority or catering organisation, staff member, parent or student who has fought to make a real difference to school meals in their area or nationally.

The deadline for entry is Monday 3 July and the winners will be presented their Awards by Jamie Oliver at the BBC Good Food Show on 23 November.