On 19 May 2006, Education Secretary Alan Johnson published new minimum nutrition standards for school food to ensure healthier eating throughout the school day, banning meals high in salt, fat and sugar or containing low quality meat from lunchtime menus.

A healthy diet is one of the most important ways you can maintain an active lifestyle, increasing energy, improving the way in which your body functions, strengthening your immune system and giving you mind fuel to concentrate and perform at high academic levels. An Eagle school vending machine can complement and enhance a nutritional sound catering provision.

Eagle Vending has been a forerunner in the supply and promotion of Fair Trade Vending products in the UK. As a registered supplier of Fair Trade products, Eagle Vending works closely with their sister company, Fair Trade Vending.

The main essence of fair trade is to give people around the world long-term security; by ensuring that the producers in poor countries get a fair deal and are not exploited for their labour. The fair trade movement ensures that the suppliers receive a price for their goods that covers the cost of production and enough to guarantee a reasonable living income.

By obtaining a Fair Trade Vending machine in your school or college, you will be supporting the fair trade movement, giving your pupils the opportunity to re-think their every day purchases and establishing awareness as to the real benefits, these small changes can make a difference to the lives of those in developing countries