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The Soil Association has awarded the Organix School Food Hero Award to Haworth Primary School Gardening Club founder Steve Thorpe. The Organix School Food Award recognises one special individual who has worked hard behind the scenes to make a real difference to school meals in their area.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and the pioneering 'dinner lady' and Soil Association school meals policy adviser, Jeanette Orrey, presented the Soil Association's School Food Awards at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham on Thursday 23 November.
Jamie Oliver said, "There are lots of winners in the Soil Association School Food Awards the schools which serve healthy, tasty meals, the local and organic producers who provide the ingredients, and above all the kids who are going to grow up knowing what good food is and where it comes from."
Lizzie Vann, founder of Organix, said, "The Organix Food Hero award is very close to the heart of Organix. We never underestimate the power of one person with vision and a passion to change things for the better. We are delighted to recognise someone so deserving of the award as Steve."
Photo: Centre, Lizzie Vann, founder of Organix with Headteacher Janet Parkinson, Steve Thorpe and members of the Gardening Club.
Haworth Primary School Gardening Club is featured on BBC1 Look North News programme at 6:30pm onwards on Thursday 23rd November.
Information about Haworth Primary School Gardening Club more...
Information about the award on the Soil Association website here... (external link, opens in a new window).
The Organix case study about Steve Thorpe here... (external link, large PDF file at 5.63mb, will take 1-3 mins to download depending on connection speed).
Article about the Gardening Club and Steve Thorpe in the Guardian newspaper here... (external link, opens in a new window - in true Guardian style they managed to spell Haworth wrong!).
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