Tackling food poverty and promoting healthy eating in Bristol

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The Mohn Westlake Foundation is partnering with the Quartet Community Foundation on the No Child Goes Hungry programme, to address food poverty and encourage healthy eating in Bristol.

New grants being awarded by The Mohn Westlake Foundation include:

Square Food Foundation (SFF); A grant of £10,026 is has been awarded to this project to deliver community cookery for low-income families. The grant will enable SFF to work with families in Knowle West to address poverty-related health issues including holiday hunger.

Vitality Bristol; Funding of £2,220 will go towards a mini festival promoting healthy eating and community cohesion. The grant will enable Vitality Bristol to run the planned 2019 mini festival Vitality and associated community workshops in St Paul’s, an inner city multi-cultural community in Bristol.

Feeding Bristol; A grant of £15,000 has been awarded to Feeding Bristol, a project to provide healthy meals to 5,600 children during every weekday in the summer school holidays. The food will be provided by FareShare South West, with applicants making it available at established and trusted clubs/activity providers around Bristol, where families and children are already meeting.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is invested in the longer-term development of the partnership with the No Child Goes Hungry programme, with Bristol City Funds providing a strategic framework for this initiative, collaborating with Bristol City Council, Feeding Bristol and other leading local healthy eating and growing charities.

The strategic framework being built involves developing a Theory of Change and action plan to address systemic causes of child poverty in Bristol, and aligning and pooling local and national funding to provide a coordinated response to the issue.

The Quartet Community Foundation aims to bring people together and improve lives by supporting small groups and charities in Bath, North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: quartetcf.org.uk