Our funding supports Public Health Collaboration to develop and expand Real Food Rebellion, a six-session food education programme for secondary school pupils. The programme is mapped to PSHE for confident classroom delivery.
Through interactive lessons, videos and student activities, young people explore how food affects health, how products are formulated and marketed, and how commercial influences shape everyday choices. The aim is to build food literacy and help pupils question the messages and pressures surrounding ultra-processed food, rather than simply giving them general advice.
The grant has helped turn an initial pilot into a complete school-ready package, including teacher manuals, student workbooks, videos, a website and ordering system. It is supporting rollout, teacher engagement and evaluation of pupil learning and choices.
By reducing the cost of delivering the pack, the team has also made the model more affordable and scalable. The programme is initially being offered free to participating schools while its impact and future funding model are tested.
We are funding Real Food Rebellion because it offers a practical route for nutrition education to reach large numbers of young people through an established curriculum. The next stage will build evidence about participation, knowledge retention and longer-term behaviour change.
Awarded July 2025