Hertfordshire Catering partners with The Saracens to promote healthy school dinners

To date, it's proved such a winning combination that the number of primary children sitting down to school meals shot up to 48.7% in February - a 3% increase on December 2009. Lin O'Brien, head of Hertfordshire Catering, said: "Over the last three years, from January 2007 to January 2010 we have seen a 15 per cent increase in primary meals. In January this year we served up 42,380 meals a day, compared with 36,868 in January 2007 - that's an increase of 5,512 meals a day." Over 60% of Hertfordshire primary schools took part in a series of fun competitions in the Saracens campaign - collecting stickers and answering sport and food facts. Overall winner, 10 year-old Aisling Lovejoy-Thurley, a pupil at Parkgate Junior School, Watford, will meet Saracens star Fabio Ongaro when he visits her school. She has won a family trip to Wembley to watch Saracens versus the Harlequins on April 17, plus a Saracens shirt signed by the 2010 squad, but also vouchers worth £300 for her school. This campaign was sponsored and supported by 3663, one of Hertfordshire Catering's main food suppliers. They provided prize vouchers for all three winning schools.