Eat Well – Havering Food Alliance

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Lead An Active, Healthy & Fulfilling Life

Discover how to eat a balanced diet & move more to achieve a healthier lifestyle

Working Together To Create A Healthier Life

The Food Alliance is a member of the Blackburn with Darwen Eat Well Move More Strategic Partnership which brings together key people and organisations working with the shared purpose of getting everyone in the borough moving more, eating well and aiming for a healthy weight.

The Ambition of the partnership is as follows:

‘We will work together to provide the encouragement, opportunity & environment for everyone in Blackburn & Darwen to lead active, healthy & fulfilling lives.

Through collaboration & innovation across the whole system, we will work to build a fairer future supporting good health & wellbeing for everyone.’

If you wish to find out more, you can view and download a PDF (7MB) of the strategy below:

view pdf

Want To Know More?

To find out more about the ongoing work in the Borough to promote a healthy diet whatever age you are, check out the information and resources located on the Public Health BeWellBwD website:

VISIT THE Be Well BwD WEBSITE

Breast Feeding Friendly Borough

Blackburn with Darwen became a breastfeeding friendly borough in 2017 and our maternity/health visiting and children’s centres have been awarded a UNICEF GOLD Baby Friendly Accreditation. Full details of the range of support that is being provided can be found via the link below along with links to find feeding friendly places when you’re out and about and information and courses Website: bewellbwd.com/a-z-services/breastfeeding-friendly-borough

Children’s Oral Health

Sugar is the main cause of tooth decay in children and BwD, which has one of the highest rates of tooth decay in our five year olds in all of England, has committed to delivering a range of services to improve this situation. You can find out more by visiting the BeWellBwD website here: bewellbwd.com/a-z-services/oral-health-start-well The Oral Health Strategy, which focuses on adults as well, can be found via the link below (link opens in a new window as a PDF): bewellbwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Blackburn-with-Darwen-Oral-Health-Improvement-Partnership-Strategy-2021-2026-Web.pdf

Healthy Start

If you are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4 you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk through the Healthy Start Scheme:

Cow’s milk
Fresh, frozen or tinned fruit & vegetables
Infant formula milk based on cows milk
Fresh, dried & tinned pulses

Details of the Healthy Start scheme can be found here on the NHS’s website: www.healthystart.nhs.uk You can also get free Healthy Start vitamins, which can be collected from your local Children’s Centre. Find out more here: bewellbwd.com/a-z-services/healthy-start

Healthy Weight Declaration

In 2017 Blackburn with Darwen Council signed the Health Weight declaration committing to promote healthy weight and improve the health and wellbeing of the local population. The ways in which this will be achieved are set out in the healthy weight declaration which can be found here: bewellbwd.com/a-z-services/healthy-weight-declaration/