Meet our team

With an established team of over 250 commercially trained and fully vetted staff, we pride ourselves on providing schools in East London with a local, high quality, cost effective and customer focused service that includes full absence cover. Our professional team's main focus is to be an accessible extension of your school staff.

Our strategy for recruiting and retaining staff at all levels is to ensure that they are not just passionate about food generally but about feeding our children and young people well.

'Waltham Forest Catering has done everyone in the borough proud.

 

They provide tasty, award-winning meals that kids love and help our young people make greener choices every day.'

 

Councillor Alistair Strathern, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, London Borough of Waltham Forest

 

  • James Hughes

    Head of Service

    James has an overall responsibility for leading our catering service to deliver the best standards possible. A qualified chef and an experienced manager in the school meals sector within London, James is supported by a great team of over 300 employees all with an enthusiasm for tasty and nutritious meals children will love.

  • Susan Brettle

    Operations Manager

    Bringing many years of Education Catering expertise to play in leading on nutrition, Sue ensures that menus and recipes are fully compliant with all relevant guidance and legislation.

  • Natalie Kruger

    Head of Commercial Operations

    Natalie is responsible for the commercial operations across all of Waltham Forest Council's services to schools and for providing strategic leadership to our service.

  • Sharon Barrett

    Area Manager

    Your designated Area Manager is first point of call for any and all matters as well as responsible for managing your kitchen team and overseeing efficient operations on site. 

  • Terry James

    Area Manager

    Your designated Area Manager is first point of call for any and all matters as well as responsible for managing your kitchen team and overseeing efficient operations on site. 

  • Jean Dixon

    Area Manager

    Your designated Area Manager is first point of call for any and all matters as well as responsible for managing your kitchen team and overseeing efficient operations on site. 

  • Sandra Petkovic

    Business Support Officer

    Sandra takes on the day to day administrative tasks within the catering office situated centrally in Walthamstow.

  • Bradley Sanders-Loman

    Principal Accountant

    Bradley is in charge of our financial reporting and finance business partnering.

  • Ali Rafiq

    Finance Officer

    Ali is first port of call for any and all finance or invoicing queries schools may have.

  • Sev Hassan

    Digital and Content Officer

    Sev’s role is to manage all our marketing activities, this includes developing our long term marketing strategy in line with our key objective to provide value for money nutritious food.