Recipients of Food Hygiene and Healthy Eating Initiatives Grants 2008-09

Aberdeenshire Council - Confidence to Cook for Independence.
This project will offer 10 students per secondary school the opportunity to gain accredited qualifications and practical experience related to the food & hospitality industry, along with vital independent living skills

For further information please contact:
Vaughan Jennings
Tel: 01224 664886
email: Vaughan.jennings@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Antrim Borough Council - 'Life Skills Training Programme'
Antrim Borough Council will work in partnership with Home Start to deliver a health and wellbeing training programme to vulnerable and disadvantaged young mothers living in the Borough of Antrim. The programme aims to improve the knowledge and practical skills of the mothers, resulting in positive behavioural change on a variety of family health issues including family nutrition, practical and healthy cooking on a budget, food hygiene and interpreting food labels. A series of ‘Cook-it’ classes will also be delivered one half day a week for 10 weeks.

For further information please contact:
Fionnuala Close (Environmental Health Officer), Antrim Borough Council
Tel: 02894 463113 ext 1408
email : fionnuala.close@antrim.gov.uk

Argyll & Bute - ‘Step Up’ Project.
This project aims to encourage more people to change their behaviour by making healthier food choices and safe food preparation practices.

For further information please contact:
David Rennie
Tel: 01700 505031
email: david@stepupproject.org

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council - 'Teens with Tots'
This project will target pregnant and parenting teenagers across the Bradford District and their babies. The project aims to influence food handling practices and healthy food choices, by delivering food hygiene and nutritional information to them. In addition Level 2 Food Safety training courses will be run, giving some parenting teenagers access to training and formal qualifications.

A resource pack of information will be produced for support workers at each of the venues attended and two age specific magazines. These can be used in the future to aid with sustainability of the project.

For further information please contact:
Annette Seal, Environmental Health Manager,
Community Health and Food Section. City of Bradford MDC
Tel 01274 434069
email: food.safety@bradford.gov.uk

Cardiff County Council - 'Meet Cook & Eat'
The project aims to provide older people with the skills and knowledge to adapt their diets in a fun, nutritious and hygienically safe way through a series of cooking classes. The project will be launched with a healthy eating event in order to register interest in the classes. The event will target a wide range of older people including the housebound and their carers in Cardiff through an assortment of communications.

Following the event, cookery classes will be held in 3 areas of Cardiff where there are high levels of older residents with various health issues. The cookery classes will include an information pack for participants to take away and use at home. The project also plans to carry out some of the cookery classes in 2 school settings thereby involving the school children to help and learn with their elders, this will therefore encourage more intergenerational work.

For further information please contact:
Allyson Jones
Telephone: 029 20871842
email: ALLJONES@CARDIFF.GOV.UK

Chelmsford Borough Council -'Cook fit Grow fit'
The project aims to improve food awareness, preparation skills and eating habits in families with children up to the age of 11/12 in an area of multiple deprivation. The project will teach children and families how to grow, produce and prepare healthy foods. Parents will also have free access to the CIEH level 2 food safety award.

For further information please contact:
Jane Smith, Environmental Services, Chelmsford Borough Council
Tel: 01245 606362
email: jane.smith@chelmsford.gov.uk

Copeland Borough Council - 'Partnerships for Safe & Healthy Eating'
This project aims to remove obstacles to choosing healthy food options, improve levels of healthy eating and to raise awareness and knowledge of safe healthy eating for children, youths aged 14+ (especially those going to live on their own for the first time), fathers, mothers, carers and extended family members in Millom and surrounding remote villages.

For further information please contact:
Jackie O’Reilly, Copeland Borough Council
Tel: 01946 598335
email: joreilly@copelandbc.gov.uk

Derry City Council - 'Eat Well Keep Well'
The main aim of the project is to raise awareness and change behaviour in relation to food hygiene and healthy eating in the 50+ age group.

The project plans to target a locally established older peoples group. It is planned to offer the group a 10 week health awareness project focusing on a number of topics including Healthy Eating, Food Labels and Storage, Healthy Snacks, Food Hygiene/Food Safety etc. A calendar will also be produced and published by participants consisting of healthy eating recipes and food hygiene tips. Following the 10 week sessions it is planned that a tool kit will be developed in order for this project to possibly be cascaded throughout Northern Ireland.

For further information please contact:
Ms Deirdre Lynch, Home Safety Officer, Environmental Health Department,
Derry City Council
Tel: 02871365151 Ext 6958
email: deirdre.lynch@derrycity.gov.uk

Durham County Council - 'Families Food & Fun'
Approximately 40 Parent Support Advisers (PSA) are located or linked to schools in areas of high social deprivation in Durham County. The role of the PSA is to engage parents and their children in education and school life.
The aim of the Families, Food and Fun project is to broaden and improve the quality of work that PSAs are carrying out around cooking activities with families. PSAs will be supported by a wide range of multi-agency partners to:
- complete the Level 2 Award in Food Safety, and attend training on nutrition and diet.
- deliver at least one healthy eating activity as part of their remit

For further information please contact:
Alison Young, Food and Healthy Schools Adviser
Tel: 01207 236211
email: a.young@durham.gov.uk

Ealing Council - 'Young chefs cooking up a healthy future'
This project will target young people (aged 11-16) from South Acton who are identified as requiring additional educational support. These young people will attend a course of practical cookery lessons, during which they will learn to prepare a repertoire of healthy and balanced meals. Alongside learning new culinary skills, the students will learn how to cook and handle food safely, how to use kitchen equipment safely, about basic nutrition and healthy eating and how to work in teams towards a shared goal.

For further information please contact:
Marie Ashley, Environmental Health & Trading Standards, Ealing Council
Tel: 020 8825 9568
email: ashleym@ealing.gov.uk

City of Edinburgh Council - Food Safety Kits for Visually Impaired People. CEC and RNIB Scotland will work in partnership to increase awareness of food hygiene among older visually impaired people in Edinburgh.

For further information please contact:
Pamela Baker
Tel: 0131 469 5733
email: Pamela.baker@edinburgh.gov.uk
Or
Fiona Dey
Tel: 0131 469 5403
email: Fiona.dey@edinburgh.gov.uk

Fife Council - Food Labels Matter.
This project will make use of interactive workshops to highlight the high intake of fats, sugar and salt in foods consumed by young persons.

For further information please contact:
Sandra Mitchell
Tel: 0845 1555555 (ext. 446846)
email: Sandra.mitchell@fife.gov.uk

Forest of Dean District Council - 'Cooking is Fun'
This project extends the delivery of a successful county pilot project, delivering it into community facilities reaching socially isolated older people living on their own. The project is designed to teach and develop basic cooking skills, increase awareness of food safety and hygiene and promote the benefits of healthy eating - drawing on older people’s life experiences.

For further information please contact:
Lena Maller, Forest of Dean District Council
Tel: 01594 8122609
email: Lena.maller@fdean.gov.uk

Highland Council - Eat Well, Eat Safe.
This project will deliver key messages on nutrition and food safety by designing and demonstrating the preparation and delivery of a nutritionally sound 3 course meal. Carried out by school pupils, the demonstration will be given to older people.

For further information please contact:
Alan Yates
Tel: 01463 228728
email: alan.yates@highland.gov.uk

Horsham District Council - 'Eat Breakfast Campaign'
The project plans to promote and raise awareness about the health benefits of eating breakfast to children aged 11-16 years in the Horsham district. This initiative will take the form of educational assemblies in schools, food tasting sessions and an interactive quiz.

The project will be led by members of the Horsham Youth Council, who are aged 13-18 years and they have identified that many of their colleagues either do not eat breakfast or eat food of poor nutritional value to start the day.
Pre/post-project dietary questionnaires and seven-day food diaries will be used to measure the effectiveness of the intervention, to identify changes in breakfast consumption and also to assess the nutritional value of other meals and snacks.

For further information please contact:
Karen Sargent, Community Health Promotion Officer, Horsham District Council
Tel: 01403 215639
email: karen.sargent@horsham.gov.uk

Isle of Wight Council - 'Recipe For Life'
The Recipe for Life project has been designed to consider a holistic approach to health for the retired population who choose to live independently in their own homes, on the Isle of Wight.

By pulling together the wealth of knowledge and skills from a variety of organisations across the Island, the event on 2nd July 2008 will be a fun, interactive and informative day for this vulnerable sector of the population, providing them with valuable 'take-home' messages on how to achieve a healthy lifestyle, through simple changes to eating habits.

For further information please contact:
Claire Mitchell, Isle of Wight Council
Tel:01983 823000
email: claire.mitchell@iow.gov.uk

Leeds City Council - 'All Being Well'
Based at the All-Being Well stall the proposed project aims to deliver six weeks of healthy eating and food hygiene advice specifically targeting people aged 60 and over who visit the stall. The six weeks will be delivered once a month over six months.

Leeds City Council will make each of the six themed weeks relevant for issues that older people face in terms of both healthy eating and food hygiene, specifically around issues of cooking for one.

The project will bring together partners from Leeds PCT, the voluntary sector and Leeds City Council in planning, development and delivery to ensure that the project is in line with the wider strategies for improving health and sustainable development for older people in Leeds. Subsequently Leeds City Council will disseminate information about the project so aspects may be delivered again in different localities and communities where older people go for support.

For further information please contact:
Katie Parsons, All Being Well Health Development Worker, Healthy Living (Leeds)
Mobile: 0789 127 3439, Office: 0113 242 5096
email: allbeingwell@hotmail.com

Medway Council - 'Health By Stealth'
Medway Council working in partnership with the charity Fairbridge will focus on vulnerable disadvantaged young people that are effectively ‘off the radar’ and missing out on key healthy eating and food hygiene messages usually learnt at home or at school.

Fairbridge staff will be trained in the CIEH courses in Food Hygiene and Healthier Food and Special Diets to ensure they are confident of the key objectives of the project. Food hygiene and healthy eating messages will also be embedded into Fairbridge courses in a fun and exciting way to engage these young people whilst embedding other basic life skills such as budgeting, shopping and cooking. The target group will be encouraged to gain a CIEH certificate in food hygiene providing them with a qualification to be taken into the workplace. The overall outcome will be an innovative and adaptable training package for Medway’s young people.

For further information please contact:
Heidi Gould – School Nutrition Adviser, Medway Council, Children and adults - learning and caring directorate
Tel: 01634 – 334024
mobile 07825071418
email: heidi.gould@medway.gov.uk

North Tyneside Council - 'We're Worth It'
Many older people living alone have lost confidence in their ability, and feel that preparing a healthy meal for one is simply ‘not worth it’. Interactive sessions will aim to educate, reawaken interest, and improve the quality of nutrition of older people and will deliver the message that the health benefits of an improved diet can improve the quality of life of older people, and that small changes can be incorporated without an increase in time or cooking skills.

Level Two Food Hygiene training will also be offered to older people (50 and over), and those working with older people in the community. The aim is firstly to ensure that community activities take place safely, but additionally to enable older people to take ownership of their own groups, increasing their skills, and offering those who may be seeking employment a knowledge base and an opportunity to gain experience by volunteering.

For further information please contact
Barbara Harland tel: 0191 287 7021
email: Barbara.harland@ageconcernnorthtyne.org

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council - 'Eat Clever Rochdale'
This project aims to increase awareness and confidence in healthy eating and good food hygiene by delivering a lifestyle course to encourage residents of hostels, housing previously homeless persons for up to 2 years, to budget wisely and make best choices regarding food.

For further information please contact:
Ann Marie Lynagh, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Tel: 01706 924636
email: Ann.lynagh@rochdale.gov.uk

South Ayrshire Council - REHIS Elementary Food & Health Course.
This project aims to deliver the training course with people who work directly with specific target groups of people in the community.

For further information please contact:
Gerry Fallon
Tel: 01292 618222
email: gerry.fallon@south–ayrshire.gov.uk

Suffolk County Council - 'My Good Food Book'
This resource will contain guidance on healthy eating and will enable people with learning disabilities, their carers and their care givers to identify and make healthy food choices that have relevance for them.

The aim is to assist people with varying degrees of learning disabilities to create a personal resource by working in conjunction with them to enable them to identify, choose and prepare a healthy balanced diet for themselves.
- 35 people with learning disabilities will be targeted across the three administrative areas of Suffolk,
- The eatwell plate will be introduced via healthy eating workshops,
- Special emphasis will be placed on the identification of healthy snacks, lunch and dinner,
- The risks associated with high salt, high fat and high sugar foods will be highlighted, with a view to identifying the foods that fall within this category.

For further information please contact:
Felicia Robinson
Tel: 01473 265970
email: Felicia.robinson@acs.suffolk.gov.uk

Sunderland City Council - 'From Seed to Salad project'
This project aims to provide primary and special schools in Sunderland and Washington with an interactive first-hand experience of growing, preparing and cooking healthy food, and to provide training on nutrition and food hygiene, and educational sessions, to the whole school community to develop knowledge and understanding of growing fruits and vegetables, food hygiene and healthy eating.

For further information please contact:
Elouise Robinson, Sunderland City Council,
Tel: 0191 5614647
email: Elouise.robinson@sunderland.gov.uk

City & County of Swansea - 'Grow with us Eat Well'
This project will enable young people, aged 9-13, from 4 areas of Swansea to encourage and promote healthy eating and good food hygiene through a tutor and peer-led system, working in conjunction with Swansea Community Farm.

The sessions will encourage healthy eating/living in addition to building inter-community links and offer a positive way to engage with young people and aim to develop skills to grow, prepare and try a variety of new foods and develop food handling and safety skills.

For further information please contact:
David Picken, Trading Standards Division, Environment Dept, City & County of Swansea
Tel: 01792 635600
email: david.picken@swansea.gov.uk

Tetbury Town Council - 'Healthy Eating Healthy Living'
This project aims to get children to understand the process and impact of food production through growing food from seed, harvesting it and preparing it; through working with local companies so children understand the hygiene issues they work on at school are “real” issues in the “real” world; by using the school’s links with Kenya to help see how food production and purchasing can affect our environment. In this way the children can become aware enough to make informed choices now and in later life that will enable them to eat healthily and live a healthy life!

For further information please contact:
Mr Stef Etherington, Headteacher, St Mary’s CofE (VA) Primary School
Tel: 01666 502275
email: head@st-marys-tetbury.gloucs.sch.uk

Wansbeck District Council - 'Cooking 4 Carers Club'
The project will work with young carers in Wansbeck who have responsibility for cooking/ caring for parent(s) and younger siblings at home. The sessions will build on local expertise whilst supporting the young carers to build up confidence and knowledge in nutrition, cooking skills and hygiene.

For further information please contact:

Lisa Nevens, Cleasewell Hill Healthy Living Centre
Tel: 01670 532345
email: l.nevens@wansbeck.gov.uk