Free School Meals Provision
Last update: 2024-07-10
Should any families be impacted by Covid over this term or experience other similar problems please email:
Free School Meals (how to apply for FSM)
Parents or carers of children who are entitled to any of the following benefits are entitled to free school meals:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit only, provided your annual household income (as assessed by HM Revenue & Customs) does not exceed £16,190. Anyone entitled to Working Tax Credit is not entitled to free meals regardless of income
- Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
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Universal Credit, if your earned income was £616.67 or less in your last monthly assessment period, or less than an average of £616.67 a month over the last 2 or 3 monthly assessment periods
If you think you may be entitled to free school meals please continue to complete this form or by clicking on the link below
Click here to apply for Free School Meals (online application form)
Follow the link for more information about free school meals at https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard are very pleased to offer families with children eligible for free school meals a complimentary Family 2 Ultimate Explorer ticket valid from 15th July 2024
Please click here to apply for the Portsmouth Dockyard tickets
The deadline for submission is 23rd June 2024.
PLEASE NOTE DUE TO SYSTEM RESTRICTIONS YOU WILL NEED TO ENTER CHILD NAMES AND PICK YOUR CHILDS SCHOOL UP TO 5 TIMES THROUGH THE PROCESS WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE WHICH THE ORGANISER IS AIMING TO RESOLVE.
Receiving your tickets
Your tickets (if eligibility is confirmed) will be valid from 15th July 2024. You will receive an email with tickets as soon
as you register however, they will not be valid until the date above.
Edenred Supermarket Food Vouchers for those who receive Free School Meals
The Local Authority will be providing a supermarket voucher from Edenred for families who are entitled to Free School Meals. The value of the voucher is £60 per eligible child. The vouchers from St Edmund's Catholic School will be issued to families on the 24th June on the email that the school holds for you on its records.
It is important that if you have recently changed your email address to which you usually receive the free school meals voucher code please can you inform the school asap by emailing Lslight@saintedmunds.org.uk. Please state clearly your child's full name and the correct email for the voucher. Please ensure any change of email is given before the school closes for the summer holiday period.
Some vouchers created previously, have expired because they were not redeemed. Please can you redeem your vouchers as soon as possible. Guidance on how to redeem vouchers is available here: https://www.edenred.co.uk/Documents/Select/Edenred-Select-Grocery-eCode-Redemption-Userguide.pdf
Unredeemed vouchers will expire 3 months after the date the ecode was delivered to the parent. Once vouchers are redeemed, they are then valid for at least a year, depending on the supermarket, so they do not have to be spent within three months, but they must be redeemed at www.selectyourcompliment.co.uk/grocery within three months.
All queries regarding the redeeming of issued FSM vouchers please contact Edenred customer services directly at freeschoolmeals@edenred.com or call 0333 400 5932. A reminder that vouchers expire after three months if not redeemed.
Please note that low income families who don't qualify for a voucher from school (for example because they have a child who is not registered with a school in Portsmouth, or because their income is over the FSM earnings threshold), will be able to apply to the council for a voucher at www.portsmouth.gov.uk/household-support. This scheme is due to open on Monday 15th July.
Click here for information on how to apply for a student bus pass from the Portsmouth Local Authority
To ensure we have the correct email address please complete the short online form. Please ensure you use the email address of the Parent/Guardian who will be be redeeming the voucher.
Please click here for the link.
You will be notified by Edenred when the vouchers are ready to be downloaded.
