A national school holiday ‘Food and Fun’ programme, that aims to prevent children going hungry in the summer holidays, is helping to reduce the impact of poverty and social deprivation according to an evaluation report by Cardiff University. Carried out by Y Lab – a partnership between the University and NESTA – the report […]
Taken from BBC Wales article published on 03/01/17: Funding of £500,000 will go to summer holiday school lunch and fun clubs, the Welsh education secretary has said. The money will be offered to councils in the most deprived parts of Wales to help provide play schemes and meals over the long break. Kirsty Williams said […]
There are around 170 non-school days in the year, leaving a gap becoming known as ‘holiday hunger’. Food Cardiff’s Summer Holiday Enrichment Programme addressed this and improved children’s quality of life over the summer holiday period, and as a result Food Cardiff have been celebrated at Springboard’s Awards for Excellence 2016 on Thursday 24 November 2016. […]
Written by Katie Palmer for IWA Many factors influence the way we think and behave around food. We are bombarded by marketing messages through social media, television and cinema and we receive mixed messages from the media about the latest research into what we should or should not be eating. We are influenced by the […]
‘Peas Please’ initiative calls for action on vegetables as lack of supply negatively affect the nation’s health. We don’t eat our five a day, though we all know we should. In fact, since the ‘5 A Day’ campaign started, fruit and vegetable consumption in Wales has actually fallen. Rising prices mean that while low income […]
Thousands of meals served every day in schools, hospitals, universities and colleges in Wales will include only verifiably sustainable fish, thanks to a pledge by the National Procurement Service (NPS) for Wales. It is the first time that a country-wide purchasing organisation for public sector buying has committed to protecting our precious fish stocks by serving only […]
A programme providing good quality meals, nutrition skills and sports education to children in socially deprived areas of Cardiff has been honoured at this year’s NHS Wales Awards. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board won the Improving Health and Wellbeing and Reducing Inequalities Award (supported by Welsh Local Government Association) for its Food and Fun […]
Following the Cardiff pilot of Food and Fun in 2015, an evaluation has been published in Frontiers, with contributions from Food Cardiff’s Katie Palmer. Four of the Cardiff schools and two schools from Southern England were evaluated as part of this work. As well as the needs and benefits, the paper describes three areas for future […]
