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Primary Choice is passionate about good food. Managed by Jeanette Orrey, more widely known as The Dinner Lady.
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Food for Life Partnership
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Led by the Soil Association, the Food for Life Partnership brings together the practical expertise of the Focus on Food Campaign, Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust.
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Garden Organic, the UKs leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for fifty years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening and food.
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Focus on Food Campaign
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The Focus on Food Campaign aims to raise the profile and importance of food education and to help secure, sustain and strengthen the status of food in primary and secondary schools nationally. The Campaign focuses on the making and cooking of food as the key experience in learning about the social importance of food.
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Soil Association
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The Soil Association is the UK’s leading environmental charity promoting sustainable, organic farming and championing human health.
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School Food Trust
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The School Food Trust was established by the Department for Education and Skills in September 2005. Its remit is to transform school food and food skills, promote the education and health of children and young people and improve the quality of food in schools
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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
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NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health
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Food Vision
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This website acts as an information portal for local authorities as well as community members who want more information about health and wellbeing within their own area.
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British Heart Foundation
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The British Heart Foundations vision is of a world in which people do not die prematurely of heart disease. They wish to achieve this through pioneering research, vital prevention activity and ensuring quality care and support for everyone living with heart disease.
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SENSE is the original network of professional nutrition consultants who work on a self employed basis. Members have a wealth of skills and experience. A register of members gives contact details of members and lists details of their expertise.
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National Governors’ Association
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The National Governors’ Association is an independent charity that aims to support and promote good governance in our schools. It represents school governors in England; there are over 300,000 governors, the largest volunteer group in the UK.
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Welcome to Water for Health
Water for Health is a water industry initiative to guide and inform health professionals and health authorities, to stimulate interest and research, and to help move water up the public health agenda.
Water UK has established the Water for Health Alliance. This has broad support among professionals who understand the relationship between water services and public health. The Alliance will work closely with government and health authorities to influence policy.
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Brakes, the leading supplier of food to caterers.
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Food Commission is the UK’s leading consumer watchdog on food issues. The Food Commission is completely independent of both the government and the food industry and campaigns for safer, healthier food, reporting on such issues as genetically modified food, food irradiation, additives,pesticides,
food labelling and food advertising.
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BNF promotes the nutritional wellbeing of society through the impartial interpretation and effective dissemination of scientifically based nutritional knowledge and advice. Working in partnership with academic and research institutes, the food industry, educators and government, to influence all in the food chain, government, the professions and the media.
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Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and
agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture.
We represent around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level. |
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DATA is the recognised professional association which represents all those involved in design and technology education and associated subject areas. DATA is an educational charity and a company limited by guarantee. The objective of the association is to "promote the advancement of education and in particular but not exclusively to support, encourage, promote, develop and maintain design and technological education in all its branches.
Tel: 01789 473 911
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Rowett
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Rowett Research Institute brings together extensive capabilities and expertise in nutritional research to pursue cutting edge science aimed at preventing disease and improving health through good nutrition.
It aims to provide robust nutritional evidence to guide food and health policies
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The NHF is a leading alliance of more than 50 organisations working to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in the UK. Member organisations represent the medical and health services, professional bodies, consumer groups and voluntary organisations.
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Young at heart is a major policy development initiative of the National Heart Forum. Its aim is to ensure through effective policy action, that every child born into the UK should be able to live to the age of at least 65 free from avoidable coronary heart disease.
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The Food Standards Agency is an independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public’s health and consumer interests in relation to food.
Advice for You
Practical answers to your nutrition questions, whether you’re a parent with a young baby, have a growing child to feed, or if you’re trying for a baby. Includes advice aimed specifically at men and older people, and information on food and sport and vegetarian diets. (Also includes teenagers needs). |
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The
national Water is Cool in School Campaign aims to improve the quality of provision and access to fresh drinking water for children in UK primary and secondary schools. The Campaign was launched in September 2000 by ERIC (The Enuresis Resource and Information Centre), the UK children’s medical charity that provides information, advice and support on childhood bedwetting, daytime wetting, constipation and soiling for families and
health professionals.
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CASH
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The Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) is a group of specialists who have carried out many of the studies on salt and its effects on health.
It is working to reach a consensus with the food industry, the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency over the harmful effects of a highsalt diet, and bring about a reduction in the amount of salt in processed foods as well as salt added to cooking, and the table.
This year we are particularly concentrating on the salt content of children’s diets and the harmful effects it has on their health now and in the future. |
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CPAG promotes action for the relief, directly or indirectly, of poverty among children and families with children. We work to ensure that those on low incomes get their full entitlement to welfare benefits.
In our campaigning and information work we seek to improve benefits and policies for low-income families, in order to eradicate the injustice of poverty. |
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SHEU offers a range of survey, research and evaluation services to all those concerned with the health and social development of young people. To date, SHEU has worked with many people from a variety of backgrounds including: Children’s Fund Programmes, National Healthy School Schemes, Drug Action Teams, Primary Care Trusts, The Police, Health Promotion Units, Health and Education Authorities, Government and University Departments and at local level within the FE/HE sectors.SHEU also publishes reports, including the "Young People in…" series and the journal ‘Education and Health’. |
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Dairy Council
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The Dairy Council is a non-profit making organisation which provides science-based information on the role of dairy foods as part of a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle.
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