TAKE ACTION

TAKE ACTION

Let’s get involved

Students can:

  1. Spread awareness

    • The more you learn, the more you can help others understand. Now that you know more about your right to food, share what you’ve learned with your friends, teachers, and family.

  2. Speak up at school

    • If you’re not satisfied with the food you’re receiving, you have the right to say something. You can also work with your teachers to hold a ‘Right to Food’ awareness day, create posters, or make announcements to help other students learn about their rights.

  3. Start a petition

    • One way of getting Government to change policy is to petition parliament. Click the link below for more information!

  4. Write to your local MP

    • Click the link below to find a list of the local MPs, that you can write to and share any concerns you may have.

start a petition
advocacy toolkit
Contact list for MPs and Ministers

Teachers can:

  1. Create a lesson

    • Take a look at the Youth Advocacy Plan Toolkit below, created to help young people as you design and build your own advocacy plan!

  2. Check out the resources

    • Have a read of the helpful websites that can teach you more about people’s right to food and examples of when those rights aren’t being met!

Here are some ideas of how YOU can take a stand!

Resources

Click to see the petition of Matilda Otter-Lowe: Reinstate previous school lunches programme. A petition about the school lunch programme was sent to parliament November 2025. Follow the link to see the result of the petition:

Learn more
  • "There can be no keener revelation of a societies soul than the way in which it treats its children.

    - Nelson Mandela

  • "I feel that school lunches, if anything, cater to the kids who don't have a voice, who are struggling but they don't voice it, they don't communicate that to anybody."

    - High School Teacher

  • "The school lunch is soggy"

    - Year 4 student

  • "There should be more meat in it. They should at least try make it taste good."

    - 11 year old student