With 2025 now here, we’re taking a moment to look back on the past 12 months. It was quite the year!
In 2024 alone, we helped 792,000 students access better food choices. Which means, we’ve now helped over 3million students access better food to fuel their learning over the last five years.
Combining our 30 years of experience within the education sector, we launched our ground-breaking in-house food procurement and catering management system – Litmus Edge – especially designed for schools. It reduces procurement costs by up to 20%, unlocking essential funds to increase the amount of ‘spend on the plate’, as well as removing the need for multiple systems and cumbersome paperwork, enabling schools to run their in-house kitchen and catering service in a more efficient and cost-effective manner.
We continued to save our clients significant money too. Our biggest-selling service – Verify – which monitors the calibre of service our clients receive from their providers and ensures the fees they are charged are in line with their agreements, recovered £750k of fees and charges. With many state schools using our Verify service, the money recouped is going straight back into the education sector.
On the charitable side, we have to give a shout out to our amazing team members who have taken time to volunteer and help Treloar’s, a charity which provides education, therapy and care to physically disabled young people, as well as raise money for Macmillan and Save the Children.
Our sustainable efforts also continued in 2024 with our partnership with Make It Wild, where we offset our carbon through planting trees in Yorkshire, as well various sustainability initiatives within our offices such as enhanced recycling measures and energy efficiency.
Candice Finn was appointed as Managing Director in October, after holding the role of Commercial Development Director at Litmus for two years. Many other team members continued to grow with us and we welcomed new faces too. Without our team, none of our achievements in 2024 would have been possible.
Here’s to the next 12 months. We’re excited to continue making a meaningful impact to all of our clients – driving change, innovation and support.
The Litmus Team