Community Food Programme
The Community Food Programme is a brand new programme made up of a number of projects that work with the community to deliver nutritional advice in a fun and informal manner through talks, presentations, shopping tours, cookery classes and fruit and vegetable bag schemes.
What do the Community Food Workers provide?
Community Cooking Sessions in a purpose built kitchen at Links HLC (Healthy Living Centre) Supermarket tours - learn how to shop healthily Courses on healthy eating, 5 A DAY, meal planning, budgeting etc Food Hygiene courses Healthy eating resources e.g. recipe books, meal ideas, preparation cards fruit & vegetable bag schemes - affordable fresh fruit and vegetables available at a number of community outlets.
If you would like to find out more about the programme, including details of current classes, please contact the Community Food Workers on 0151 356 6970, email wc-pct.communityfood@nhs.net or check out the website www.lhlc.co.uk and go to the CFP page.
Snack Right
The Snack Right campaign got off to a great start this summer with 600 families taking part in 'Healthy Snacking' events across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Snack Right is a targeted intervention for the parents and carers of pre-school children from deprived neighbourhoods, devised by CHAMPS Public Health Network Social Marketing Group. Snack Right uses social marketing principles and techniques to influence snacking behaviour.
The project's simple message to parents and carers is each day replace at least one unhealthy snack in your child's diet with a healthy one, with an emphasis on sustaining the Snack Right message beyond the events and into the home.
Snack Right is underpinned by a cartoon group of fruit and vegetables, the Snack Right 5, Narna the banana, Berry the strawberry, Pip the apple, Topper the carrot and Tiny the grape, who feature in posters, a story book, table mats, games, sticker charts and a branded children's fruit bowl.
Since the launch of the Snack Right campaign, events and activities have been running throughout 2009 in western Cheshire at Children' Centres and in other community settings
To find our more about Snack Right and events planned in western
Cheshire please contact KateTierney on 01244 385036, email:
kate.tierney@wcheshirepct.nhs.uk
Or visit the Snack Right Website at www.snackright.co.uk
