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CanTeam aims to transform educational and nutritional outcomes for young people and their families, by equipping and supporting schools to offer an after-school food programme.

Gamechanger Prize Winner

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We are proud to share, that our CEO Jonathan Harper and CanTeam have been announced as a winner of the Big Change Education Challenge.

Read the full announcement here.

We are being supported and funded by Big Change in 2024-25 to scale our pilots and impact, so watch this space for more details.

Please do contact us, if you can help.

Eat together.

Thrive together.

CanTeam is a new initiative drawing on Future Foundations experience offering food within our summer schools.

Our goal is to promote sustainable eating practices that reduce food waste, food hunger, fuel bills, plastic consumption, and food miles while improving educational outcomes, health and wellbeing.

We are committed to ensuring that good quality food is accessible and affordable, regardless of financial circumstances. To achieve this, we are exploring offering all food without charge or subsidies to families eligible for the pupil premium.  We want to provide food without any stigma of food banks or vouchers.  

We envisage CanTeam will extend beyond meal provision, with activities and other services being offered alongside a core food offering.  

We strive to create a thriving space and community hub that operates beyond school hours. As social spaces such as high streets diminish, we aim to establish schools as community-oriented service providers that generate social capital and offer declining facilities and services.

Future Foundations was awarded grant funding in May 2023 from Big Change to work through a design thinking process to develop CanTeam and consult stakeholders, as part of the Big Education Challenge, and submit our progress in November, with the outcome of the challenge announced in January 2023.

We are delighted CanTeam is a winner of the Big Education Challenge.   We will be announcing soon further details on our plans for 2024-25, so watch this space.

We can create a more sustainable and equitable society.

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To find out more & get involved contact:

Jonathan Harper FRSA
CEO Future Foundations & Founder of CanTeam

Jon@future-foundations.co.uk