AXMINSTER: £200k lottery grant for carers food project

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Health and Local Food for Families (HALFF) in Axminster has landed almost £200,000 to spend on a five-year healthy eating project for carers and the people they look after.

The precise sum is £199,830 and HALFF director Victoria Parry said: “It is fantastic that this grant from the Big Lottery Fund will enable us to focus our new project on supporting carers and those they look after to eat more healthily.

“Carers are a group that is often overlooked, yet they work tirelessly to look after their loved ones day in day out.

“Our new project aims to help improve their wellbeing and quality of life and we can’t wait to get started.”

The projects aims for carers in Devon, Dorset and Somerset, including those with heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes or high blood pressure, plus older people caring for partners and parents caring for their children.

The project will deliver free regular healthy cooking courses and demonstrations, planning and budgeting sessions, nutrition and labelling guidance and information on how food can affect health.

A range of other support will be on offer, including fortnightly newsletters, drop-in sessions at the charity’s food hub and opportunities to volunteer in the shop or garden.

Working with partners including local health bodies, Age UK, children’s centres, Diabetes UK and Devon Carers, a referral system will be developed to reach people who would find support from the project most useful.

Tim Davies-Pugh, Big Lottery Fund deputy director, England, said: “It is really great news that HALFF’s project will use Big Lottery funding to help improve the health and wellbeing of carers and their loved ones through a range of healthy eating activities.”

To find out more or enrol in the project, go to www.halff.org.uk or ring 01297 631782.
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