Meet the Client
Food For Thought is a not-for-profit, member-owned school meals company serving over 90 schools across Liverpool – from primary and secondary to SEN settings.
The Challenge
With that scale comes considerable financial complexity. Every day, it delivers more than 26,000 fresh, nutritious meals, alongside outdoor learning and cookery workshops that bring food education to life.
How Adding Value Helped
Adding Value manages the full range of finance services for Food for Thought: financial management and reporting to the CEO and Board, bookkeeping, payroll and annual accounts preparation for audit.
The bookkeeping alone is a significant undertaking. Nearly 100 schools need to be invoiced regularly and, with 26,000 meals a day being delivered, the volume of supplier invoices to be allocated across schools is substantial.
Getting those processes right – and making sure they can keep pace with the organisation’s rapid growth – is where Adding Value’s support has made a real difference.
Adding Value has become an integrated essential service to our membership. The relationship with Mark, Lasma, their team and FFT leadership has been critical to the development and growth of the business. We have a unique model which Adding Value supports – and often advises how we can improve our processes to present a quality, sustainable offering to our partner schools.
– Tom Lambeth, CEO and Alice Holding, Deputy CEO, Food For Thought
