VE Day Celebration!
Blog written by Jessica, student volunteer and a member of the CanTeam Crew at Tendring Technology College
Introduction
CanTeam is a collaborative organisation who provide food/nutrition for people who can’t always meet their nutritional needs. When they came to TTC, they helped us pay for decorations for our event and food – they even provided staff and shirts!
My CanTeam journey:
CanTeam helped me with social interactions, I’ve always been quite socially adverse but the event we hosted helped me with taking to people – especially adults.
Final Thoughts:
I think everyone who can should get involved! The members are so friendly and the work you do is so rewarding – it makes me feel so happy to help people, and provide things to do for others.
Extremely fun and great staff, would recommend.
Background:
CanTeam is an after school social dining initiative co-designed with young people that encourages students and their families to enjoy nutritious, delicious and diverse foods together.
Launched by Future Foundations in June 2023, CanTeam aims to embed a transformative food culture within schools, enabling young people to learn and thrive.
Over the first 6 months of the initiative, CanTeam was funded and supported by the Big Change Big Education Challenge to develop the concept, consult beneficiaries and test the idea. In January 2024, CanTeam was announced a winner of the Big Education Challenge and is being supported by Big Change to scale across the UK.
In partnership with Bite Back, we provided micro-finance to schools to plan and run their own CanTeam event(s). Find out more here.
We are excited to continue developing CanTeam and the impact we can have on the health and wellbeing of young people and their families throughout the UK.
Get in touch, if you think you can help…
- Email: jon@future-foundations.co.uk
We are looking for schools and partners who share our vision and can help us pilot CanTeam at scale.