Free School Meals Provision
Last update: 2025-06-26Free 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
Edenred Supermarket Food Vouchers for those who receive Free School Meals
Portsmouth City Council have kindly granted families who are eligible for Free School Meals an e-voucher for the summer period for the amount of £50 per eligible student. This will be issued to those eligible on the 4th July 2025 to the priority 1 contact email that the school holds on our system. Please also check your email junk inbox.
If your email address has changed it is important that you contact the school to update this urgently before the 14th July so any changes can be made and the ecode resent to the correct email before the school closes for the summer holiday.
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.
Have you changed your email address:
The edenred email will go to the 1st contact on the school's system so if you have more than one email address please ensure you check the email that you gave to the school. If you have changed your email please send the new email address also noting the full name of the student to Lslight@saintedmunds.org.uk
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.
Click here for information on how to apply for a student bus pass from the Portsmouth Local Authority
