Our Impact

The 2024/25 academic year was another fantastic year for the PhunkyFoods Programme across the UK. You can see our 2024/25 ouputs below, but to really bring these figures to life please do read some of our wonderful case studies, which really showcase the impact and diversity of the programme, and you can also view feedback from our schools in our Annual Schools Survey 2025.

Outcomes - academic year 2024/25

The PhunkyFoods Programme has been operating for more than 20 years and has been widely implemented across UK primary schools. Our annual impact is grouped into school-level, pupil-level and community-level outcomes.

Impact on the school

95% of teachers report an increase in confidence in delivery of healthy lifestyle messaging after PhunkyFoods in-school training.

83% of schools reported that they deliver key healthy lifestyle messages to children more frequently since launching PhunkyFoods in school.

95% of schools report that the implementation of the PhunkyFoods Programme in school has had a positive impact on awareness and knowledge of healthy eating issues for their pupils.

• Children are able to talk more readily, and more confidently, about what a healthy balanced diet means
• Children demonstrate improved foundational knowledge of healthy lifesyle messaging in science and PSHE

Impact on pupils

37% of pupils report making changes to the way they eat since taking part in PhunkyFoods in school, and a further 24% of children report that they are thinking about making some changes to the way they eat.

42% of pupils report being more physically active since starting PhunkyFoods in school, and a further 15% would like to start being more physically active.

90% of schools report that the implementation of the PFP had had a positive impact on improving healthy eating behaviour of their pupils, for example:

• Higher uptake of hot school meals
• Healthier choices being made in the school canteen
• Healthier lunchboxes being brought into school
• Healthier snack choices being made
• Children drinking more water
• Increase in fruit and vegetable intakes at snack and lunch times
• Children are more willing to try new foods

Impact on Families & Community

Schools report stronger family involvement in healthy lifestyle conversations, facilitated through improved communications, and school-led parent and family sessions and activities.

• 73% of schools report engaging with their families through the PhunkyFoods Programme.
• 64% of schools report that the PhunkyFoods Programme has made it easier to engage with parents/carers around the healthy lifestyles agenda.

After attending one of our school family PhunkyFoods clubs with their child(ren):

• 75% of parents rated PhunkyFoods family sessions as ‘excellent’ and 24% rated them as ‘good’
• 90% of parents reported learning something new
• 79% of parents reported that they were either ‘likely’ or ‘very likely’ to change at least one thing about their family eating habits. Examples given included:
  • Involving their child(ren) more with the cooking at home
  • Eating more fruit/vegetables
  • Change to wholemeal bread/pasta/rice
  • Introducing new foods/having more variety
  • Making more food “from scratch”