Recipients of Food Hygiene and Healthy Eating Initiatives Grants 2009-10

This year’s successful projects are listed below, with contact details for further information.

Aberdeen City Council - CARING about eating safely and CARING about eating well

This project plans, through two events, to target those members of the local community in Aberdeen who are currently caring for, and preparing food for, an elderly person at home who has a diagnosis of dementia. The project will also target key care staff providing them with basic underpinning knowledge around food hygiene and food and health through REHIS accredited courses.

Janette Gascoine, Tel: 01224 346181,
e-mail: jgascoine@aberdeencity.gov.uk

Burnley Food Forum working with Burnley Borough Council - Soup in a Bag

This project will demonstrate that it is simple to make healthy seasonal soup through simple cook and eat sessions in Burnley town centre, also giving participants recipes and the raw ingredients to take home.

Jane Summers or Jayne Enright Tel: 01282 425011 ext. 2544/2454
e-mail: jsummers@burnley.gov.uk
e-mail: jenright@burnley.gov.uk

Cardiff County Council - St Mellons Food Hygiene Certificate Courses

This project intends to offer people in deprived areas of Cardiff the opportunity to achieve a Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Level 2 Certificate in Food Safety in Catering, with a view to improving their employment prospects, and aiming to raise awareness of healthy eating issues amongst young families, especially on reduction of saturated fat and salt.

Steve Wilkins Tel: 02920 361581
e-mail: Stewilkins@cardiff.gov.uk

Chelmsford Borough Council - Cooking without Cooking

This project will work with young people aged 16-26 studying away from home, providing the knowledge and skills to prepare nutritious balanced meals on a budget and to cook safely without having access to a conventional oven.

Jane Smith Tel: 01245 606362
e-mail@ Jane.smith@chelmsford.gov.uk

Cumbria County Council - Picture This

This project aims to provide and evaluate specific tools to effectively communicate with service users with dementia in Cumbria about hygiene and food selection, thus reducing hygiene related illnesses and increasing nutritional uptake in the target group. It is planned that the tools, if proven effective, will be passed on as a template to other providers of services to older adults with dementia.

Karen Dalton Tel: 01228 227778/ 07774971185
e-mail: Karen.Dalton@cumbriacc.gov.uk

Derry City Council - Eating Well

The project will deliver two new Eating Well clubs targeting vulnerable, isolated and hard to reach older men and women in the Triax area of Derry.
These will provide low cost healthy meals and food safety messages, quizzes and games. The project will also provide key messages, practical demonstrations (including practical advice to reduce the intake of salt) and support to 5 older peoples clubs and 4 residential/sheltered housing schemes.

Thomas McCallion Tel: 02871 365151
e-mail: thomas.mccallion@derrycity.gov.uk

East Northamptonshire Council - Healthy Eating in the Home

Through interventions (such as fridge cleaning and kitchen signs), awareness raising and formal training courses this project aims to improve food hygiene for domestic care workers and cleaners and older people aged 60 +. Carers will reinforce lessons learned in the homes of older people.

Amanda Robinson Tel: 01832 742243
e-mail: ajrobinson@east-northamptonshire.gov.uk

City of Edinburgh Council - Food Safety Kits for Elderly Visually Impaired people

This project (in conjunction with RNIB Scotland) will aim to increase food hygiene awareness among older (aged 55+) blind and partially sighted people within Edinburgh and Lothians, through preparation and distribution of food safety kits. RNIB rehabilitation workers will deliver food hygiene messages and instruct the target group in the use of the kits as well as providing ongoing support.

Fiona McFarlane Tel: 0131 469 5526
e-mail: fiona.mcfarlane@edinburgh.gov.uk

Gloucestershire County Council and Gloucester City Council - Food for Thought – for carers and the elderly

This project will target older people in areas of most need in Gloucester by focusing on independent elderly residents who attend community daycentres and domiciliary care workers. Activity based learning experiences (such as workshops and presentations) will be provided, as well as a carers’ pack. Better links with professionals and volunteers who work with the elderly will be created, and information will be produced to assist them in passing on the messages.

John Paddock Tel: 01452 426201
e-mail: John.paddock@gloucestershire.gov.uk

London Borough of Islington - Promoting good food hygiene among independent older people in Islington

This project will deliver food safety awareness sessions at lunch clubs, coffee mornings and day centres, targeting older independent active people who attend clubs and meetings in Islington. The sessions will include the use of various games such as a bingo game, a fridge stocking game and a ‘use by’ game.

Kate Harris/ Carole Milligan Tel: 0207 527 3191/ 3858
e-mail: Kate.Harris@islington.gov.uk
e-mail: Carole.Milligan@islington.gov.uk

Kent County Council - Hands 4 Health

This project aims to facilitate behavioural change to reduce salt and saturated fat intake of the clients of the Tenterden & District Day Centre (for learning disabled, physically disabled and older people), and to provide awareness, skills and knowledge to key staff and volunteers at the centre to assist in supporting their clients make healthier choices.

Susan Harvey Tel: 01732 525291
e-mail: susan.harvey@kent.gov.uk

Leeds City Council - “All Being Well” Food Hygiene and Healthy Eating Days

Through the “All Being Well” market stall in Kirkgate market Leeds this project aims to deliver messages on reducing saturated fat and salt and consideration of good food hygiene practices to people passing through the market. This will be carried out through activity days, with participants engaging with staff during the activity to talk about healthy eating and food hygiene.

Jill Gunn Tel: 0113 2476291
e-mail: jill.gunn@leeds.gov.uk

Leicester City Council - Ditch the Fat

This project aims to change the eating and behavioural habits of young people aged 5-18 through working with St John Ambulance Badger and Cadet Units. During the programme the youngsters will be involved in making healthy food swaps and preparing and cooking these healthier options (with particular regard to reduction of saturated fat), and keeping food diaries to record and analyse their eating habits.

Sharon Payne Tel: 0116 252 6449
e-mail: Sharon.payne@leicester.gov.uk

The Moray Council - Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice

This project will encompass the development of a theatre performance (based on Hansel and Gretel) dispelling local healthy eating myths which will be delivered to targeted communities across Moray. Cross-generational community engagement will take place, initially through a series of workshops providing the source of inspiration for the production, and the programme will include healthy eating and food hygiene advice and healthy recipes.

Nick Fearne Tel: 01343 557 148
e-mail: Nick.fearne@moray.gov.uk

Northamptonshire County Council - Promoting Basic Food Hygiene for Older People

This project will deliver a food hygiene training programme for domestic care workers who work with elderly isolated people living in Northamptonshire. The project aims to improve the knowledge and practical skills of the workers and develop a checklist and information pack for their elderly clients to keep, thus increasing their knowledge and understanding of food hygiene. A series of basic food hygiene courses will be run over 6 months, with follow up visits to older people made over the following 6 months.

Sonja Noon Tel: 07515 190966
e-mail: snoon@northamptonshire.gov.uk

North Ayrshire Council - Home Economics and Hospitality Food and Health Initiative

This project will provide the opportunity for the delivery of a healthy eating curriculum insert for pupils in 9 secondary schools meeting ‘Hungry for Success’ aims raising awareness of the high fat content of many processed foods, and for older students studying Home Economics/Hospitality to undertake the REHIS certified Food and Health Course.

Alison Young Tel: 01294 324446
e-mail: alisonyoung@north-ayrshire.gov.uk

Northumberland County Council - EATWELL to live well

This project aims to raise awareness of good food hygiene and healthy eating (focusing on the need to reduce salt and fat intakes) through ‘cook and taste’ demonstrations and cooking courses, targeting older people in the former mining areas in the South East corner of Northumberland, with a particular focus on single men living alone.

Lisa Nevens Tel: 01670 532345
e-mail: Lisa.Nevens@northumberland.gov.uk

Nottinghamshire County Council - One pot nutritious safe cookery

This project aims to give older people in Nottinghamshire who are bordering on the edge of residential care the skills to continue to provide for themselves good quality nutritious food in their own homes.

Gavin C. Shelley Tel: 07974 369116
e-mail: Gavin.shelley@nottscc.gov.uk

Perth & Kinross Council - Promotion of the healthyliving award

This project will provide approximately 70 independent catering premises (with a vulnerable or disadvantaged client base) in the Perth & Kinross area individual support to encourage attainment of healthyliving award status through reduction of saturated fat and/or salt. The healthyliving award is an award for those food outlets in Scotland which are committed to providing healthier food for their customers by making broad changes to how food is prepared using both healthier ingredients and cooking methods.

Gillian Johnston or Jim Dixon Tel: 01738 476473/ 01738 476471
e-mail: gmjohnston@pkc.gov.uk
e-mail: jjdixon@pkc.gov.uk

Rushcliffe Borough Council - Reducing the risk of Listeria in older people in Rushcliffe

This project aims to provide training and advice on food hygiene to residents, support staff and community users in 16 sheltered housing accommodation centres across Rushcliffe through sessions and a toolkit to be given to residents for use in their own home.

Sarah Cairns Tel: 0115 9148432
e-mail: scairns@rushcliffe.gov.uk

South Ayrshire Council - Can Cook Will Cook – Community Cooking Project

This project will train community based/focused individuals to teach/promote basic cooking and food preparation skills to vulnerable target groups/ individuals in a variety of settings in the community.

Gerry Fallon Tel: 01292 616661
e-mail: gerry.fallon@south-ayrshire.gov.uk

South Somerset District Council (SSDC) - Healthier menu choices for children when eating out

Targeting 50 independent catering businesses which provide food and drink for children and their families when eating out in Somerset, primarily in leisure and holiday settings, this project aims to persuade the businesses to offer a greater choice of healthier menu items for children, which are lower in sugar, saturated fat and salt than existing menu items.

Alasdair Bell Tel: 01458 257440
e-mail: Alasdair.Bell@southsomerset.gov.uk

Wealden District Council - Improving Food Hygiene & Nutrition Amongst Voluntary Lunch Clubs

This project aims to improve standards of food hygiene and nutrition in lunch clubs for older people by providing lunch club volunteers in the rural areas of the Wealden district of East Sussex with training, guidance, advice and support. In addition the project hopes to assist the volunteers to cascade the information to their clients.

Jeremy Leach Tel: 01323 443302
e-mail: Jeremy.leach@wealden.gov.uk