PROJECT
Veggie Run
FUNDING
It is funded by HES Catering Services, the in-house catering service for the London Borough of Havering, from revenue generated by catered school lunches. Prizes have been sponsored by Everyone Active, part of leisure contractor Sports and Leisure Management, Quorn, Cycles UK Romford, Havering Sports Collective and sQuid
BACKGROUND
Nearly a fifth of all five-year-olds in Havering have tooth decay, largely as a result of consuming too much sugar. One in five children in the borough start school overweight or obese, and in year 6 this rises to one in three.
To reverse these trends, Havering Council was keen to promote healthy eating to schoolchildren. Given only a tiny minority of packed lunches have been found to meet government nutrition criteria, it wanted to encourage the take-up of healthier catered school meals.
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