The School Food Trust's Let's Get Cooking programme has been named among projects in Kent and Medway and the North East to receive new Health Lottery funding from the People’s Health Trust.
We’ve been awarded more than £88,000 of funding to help young people aged 14-19 and their families, and young people with special educational needs, to set up their own community-based healthy cooking club. The money means we’ll be able to work with up to 2,000 people across these areas in the coming year.
Our Chairman, Rob Rees, said: “Inspiring people to learn to cook is a fun and simple way to help them live more healthily. More than half of the people already taking part in our existing cooking clubs at thousands of locations all over the country say they eat a better diet as a result, so we know this works. This grant is a wonderful opportunity to help even more people reap the benefits of being able to make a decent meal from scratch, and we can’t wait to get started on setting up our new clubs and cooking activities.”
Professor Jennie Popay, chair of the People’s Health Trust, said: “Our funding comes from local society lotteries and it’s really important for us to show people in the communities these lotteries represent how their money is being spent to tackle the social causes of ill-health and promote well being. Our funding will provide an injection of new money into the charitable sector to support local activity at a time when it is really needed. And by working with well-established partners and local groups we know that we’re investing in the people and neighbourhoods that can benefit the most from this funding.”
Eamonn Holmes, National Ambassador for the Health Lottery said: “Maintaining good health in our communities is of paramount importance. The Health Lottery is a chance to address some of the health issues that are on all of our doorsteps. A huge amount of wonderful work is already undertaken every day to help people live longer healthier lives and in these difficult economic times The Health Lottery will inject a sizeable amount of new money into that local network.”
