BREAKFAST CLUBS AND SCHOOL
FRUIT SCHEMES: PROMISING PRACTICE: Further Resources
Information on
the state of development of breakfast clubs in the
http://www.npi.org.uk
New Policy
Institute has information on breakfast schemes. New Policy Institute, 109 Coppergate House,
The government
provides information on its own fruit and breakfast schemes at http://www.doh.gov.uk
The Sustained
Food and Farming Alliance provides information and
advice on improving food access, as does the Food Poverty Network. They publish
"Making links: A toolkit for local food projects" which offers advice
to organisations wishing to begin local food
distribution projects, which is available at http://www.sustainweb.org or through Sustained Food and
Farming Alliance, 94 White Lion Street, London, N1 9PF Telephone: 020 7837 1228
Fax: 020 7837 1141
Sustain also
promote the Grab 5! programme, and provide ideas for
schools to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. See http://www.sustainweb.org/grab5_index.asp
The Child
Poverty Action Group is part of the Food Poverty Network and is based at the
same address (see above) or at http://www.cpag.org.uk
They have published work on the uptake and nutritional
quality of free school meals.
School Nutrition
Action Groups promote healthy food in schools, and are supported by the Health
Education Trust. See http://www.healthedtrust.com/pages/snag.htm or Health
Education Trust, 18 High Street, Broom, Alcester, Warwickshire B50 4HJ
The British
Dietetic Association has a campaign to increase consumption of fruit and
vegetables called Gimme5.The campaign home page is http://www.bda.uk.com/faw01.html
or contact; The BDA, 5th Floor, Charles House, 148/9 Great Charles Street
Queensway, Birmingham B3 3HT Telephone: 0121 200 8080 Fax: 0121 200 8081 Email:
info@bda.uk.com
4children,
formerly the kids club network, is a national charity
working to create opportunities for children. The home page is http://www.4children.org.uk/
The school fruit
and vegetable scheme is part of the Department of
Health's 5 a day programme. For information about the scheme see http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/FiveADay
The Welsh
Assembly Government has published information on breakfast and breakfast clubs
for primary school children based on
Many areas
already have their own initiatives whose websites may contain helpful
information on the way they run their scheme, for instance see http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/topics/topiccontents for an
example of evaluation of breakfast clubs in Glasgow, or for more general
information go to http://www.continyou.org.uk/content
To find more projects like these, try searching
on www.google.co.uk using the words breakfast, fruit, school and the area you
work in.
Links updated 2006