The Lifetime Excellence Award is given to an ‘outstanding personality who has, over the course of their career, demonstrated a unique and exceptional commitment to improving catering within the education sector in Scotland’.
Lindsay’s interest areas still include - food insecurity, child hunger, children’s learning environments, health inequalities, school nutrition and health improvement programmes, children and families affected by disability, food aid projects, extended schools, breakfast and holiday provision programmes.
She chaired the Holiday Hunger Task Force on the All-Party Parliamentary Group on School Food, which aims to tackle the issue of school holiday food insecurity.
Lindsay was named on the Public Sector Catering’s ‘Most Influential’ list in 2021. She is active on social media to network, share best practice and campaign for all her areas of interest.
Aimed at rewarding excellence in schools across the country, the School Food Awards (SFAs) were developed to celebrate and promote Scotland’s educational institutions that prioritise wellbeing, sustainability, healthy living and the provision of high quality food and nutrition.
The awards took place at Glasgow Academy earlier this month. The winners included:
- The Student Chef of the Year Award: Domhnall Angus Bruce, Former pupil of Portree High School, Isle of Skye
- The Foodservice Team of the Year Award: Edinburgh Academy Junior School
- The Employee of the Year Award: Jamie Campbell, Gordonstoun School, Moray
- The Wellbeing in Education Award: Gordonstoun School, Moray
- The School Chef of the Year Award: Vladimirs Kruus, Fettes College, Edinburgh
- The Special Award: Glasgow City Council, for its Full of Beans healthy living campaign
- The Lifetime Excellence Award: Dr Lindsay Graham OBE