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St Benedict's School - Budgeting for beginners

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  • Mar 6, 2019
  • 1 min read

Stuart and Adrian spent the whole of Friday at St Benedict's school, Whitehaven where the school children had the opportunity to learn more about the Foodbank; what we do and why we do it. They were also taught the value of budgeting (the photo above shows branded (LHS) and non-branded (RHS) foods). The branded food costs more than double the non-branded items! Blind taste testing showed how difficult it was to tell the difference between some of the items.


This logo was painted on the school corridor wall and says it all.

 
 
 

20 Comments


Guest
a day ago

this is a practical and important lesson for students. comparing branded and non-branded foods through a blind taste test is a clever way to teach budgeting. it makes the concept of value tangible. the work foodbanks do in schools to build this understanding early is really valuable. thanks for sharing this example from st benedict's. AI Image Editor

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Guest
Jun 01

Such important work in schools. On the digital side — North Lakes' school resources page is genuinely useful, and a lot of smaller foodbanks under the Trussell network would benefit from something similar. I help small UK charities rebuild their resource pages and using a design-to-code tool has made it realistic to ship a clean teacher-resources hub in an evening from a Figma mockup. The St Benedict's lesson is the kind of content that deserves wider reach. Diolch i chi.

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Guest
Jun 01

What a brilliant lesson — the branded vs. non-branded blind taste test is exactly the kind of hands-on activity that actually sticks with kids. I help with comms for a food bank down south and we recently used an AI image generator to create friendly, non-stigmatising illustrations for our school workshops (stock photos for food poverty are uniformly bleak). Made the materials feel a lot more inviting for young audiences. Thanks Stuart and Adrian for the work you're doing in Whitehaven.

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May 22

dict's event brilliantly educates kids on budgeting, highlighting cost differences between branded and non-branded foods! https://AnimalCraft.net

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