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A Healthy Start for Liverpool
WebBy Dr Naomi Maynard, Good Food Programme Director – Feeding Liverpool. The Healthy Start Scheme is a lifeline for so many pregnant women and families with young children, providing access to good food: fruit, vegetables, milk and vitamins which are so important to give your child the best start in life. It certainly was for me, when back in …
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Why is it important and why now
WebThe food we eat, who we eat with and the way in which we obtain it has a significant impact on our lives. Food has the power to bring joy, build connections and protect us from ill health yet many of us in Liverpool are struggling to access ‘Good Food.’ And whilst this was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, this past year has created additional …
What is the Good Food plan
WebLiverpool’s Good Food Plan is a plan that will address key issues related to the food we eat in Liverpool including: food insecurity. access to and take-up of healthy, nutritious food. the impact the food we eat is having on our planet. and the practices by which the food we eat is produced. It connects to and builds on existing work in the
The Queen of Greens Launches New Expanded Route
WebRun by Feeding Liverpool and Alchemic Kitchen, the Queen of Greens has been a huge success since its launch in late 2022, aiming to boost access to healthy food and help tackle health inequalities. Initially visiting 29 stops each week, the bus provides people with a better opportunity to shop for nutritious food closer to their home or …
A Healthy Start for Liverpool
WebThe Healthy Start Scheme is a lifeline for many pregnant women and families with children under 4 in the city. It is a means-tested government benefit designed as a nutritional safety net to improve access to a healthy diet for low-income families. Over 6,800 pregnant women and parents/carers are eligible for the scheme in Liverpool, …
Goal 3: Enabling Food Citizenship
WebA food environment is the foods available to people in their surroundings as they go about their everyday lives and the nutritional quality, safety, price, convenience, labelling and promotion of these foods. (UN Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition) A food desert is an area containing two or fewer supermarkets/ convenience stores.
Information For Professionals
WebAccess to free Healthy Start vitamins are also included. If a participant remains eligible from 10 weeks pregnant until their child is aged 4, £1,200 could be accessed overall via the scheme. However, since the transition to a digitalised scheme, uptake has reduced to just 65% across Liverpool with about £758,521.24 going unclaimed in 2021.
Without Access to Justice
WebThis report, Without Access to Justice : the work and welfare problems driving food insecurity’, draws on powerful stories of people of working-age who were using food support spaces, including food banks, food pantries and other community organisations in 2023. It contains a series of recommendations responding to the report’s four key
Healthy Start for Liverpool
WebHealthy Start for Liverpool. April 19, 2022. The Healthy Start Scheme is a government funded program that aims to increase the health of eligible parents/carers on low incomes and their young children to give them the best start in life. It is available to women who are 10+ weeks pregnant or eligible parents/carers who have a child up to the
Liverpool’s Good Food Plan Scoops Award
WebLiverpool’s Good Food Plan partnership has been awarded a prestigious Sustainable Food Places award.. The Good Food Plan, which has a driving vision of “Good Food for All”, was launched in October 2021 and is led by Feeding Liverpool and Liverpool City Council, with support from partners across the public, private and voluntary sector.. …
Children’s health should not be a postcode lottery
WebThis is great news and certainly a win for the Food Foundation, School Food Matter’s and BiteBack 2030’s Feed the Future campaign. But thousands of children living in poverty in Liverpool (and elsewhere in England) are still missing out. Our children’s health should not be a postcode lottery. And so further action is needed, and fast.
Feeding Liverpool receives ‘Healthy Weight’ funding to expand work
WebFeeding Liverpool is delighted to have received funding from The Alder Hey Healthy Weight Programme. 1 in 3 children leave primary school overweight or obese, with obesity-related illnesses costing the NHS billions of pounds each year. Obesity is a major risk factor for an individual’s health and is a leading cause of preventable illness …
Introduction to Food Insecurity in Liverpool: Definitions, Impact
WebPrepared By: Grace Patterson, Research Associate, Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Food Systems What is food insecurity and how is it measured? Food insecurity (FI) is defined by the FAO as “a situation that exists when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an …
Join us for the launch of 'Without access to Justice: the work and
WebYou are invited to join The University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice and Feeding Liverpool for the launch of their new report: ‘Without access to justice: The work and welfare problems driving food insecurity’. This report, draws from powerful stories of people of working-age who were using food support spaces, including food …
A Healthy Start for Liverpool
Web2. Invest in a national Healthy Start communications campaign: to increase awareness and uptake. 3. Resume monthly publishing of national uptake data: There has been no published data on the uptake of Healthy Start since the scheme moved to a digital one in March 2022.
Growing in the Community
WebWhen: 12:30pm – 3pm, Wednesday 21st June. Where: Kensington Fields Social Club, 24 Hall Lane, L7 8TQ. How: Register via Eventbrite. For more information, please contact: Elena Vacca, Feeding Liverpool Project Manager on [email protected]. Minna Alanko-Falola, Liverpool Food Growers Network …
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