Food Standards Agency
Friday 3 July 2009
Safe food and healthy eating for all banner welsh
AZ-Directory
What's NewRSS
What is RSS?Listen
Listen to this siteFriday 9 August 2002
Community and voluntary groups working with older people have just four weeks left to apply for funding from the Food Standards Agency Wales. Groups have until 5 September to apply for a share of £10,000 being made available for one-off events or initiatives focussing on healthy eating.
The Food Standards Agency Wales is providing the grants as part of its contribution to this year's Keep Well This Winter campaign. FSA Wales' contribution to KWTW is to lead on healthy eating. This year's grants programme follows a similar exercise in 2001/02 when 15 groups received a share of £10,000. Among the successful recipients in South Wales last year were Age Concern Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan; Trecenydd OAPs, Caerphilly; Age Concern Gwent, and the Merthyr Tydfil Local Health Alliance.
Groups interested in making a bid are advised that there is no set format to follow when deciding on their event or initiative. Luncheon clubs, coffee mornings, cookery demonstrations and talks are just a few examples, but applicants are welcome to submit any proposal specific to the needs of the elderly community they serve.
The only qualifying criteria are that the event should be held in Wales, focus on healthy eating, be aimed at the over 65's and be achievable between October this year and February 2003. Applications for vulnerable groups and the socially and economically disadvantaged are particularly welcome, as research has shown that these groups can often have poor diets that can in turn contribute to other health inequalities.
Jayne Griffiths is an Executive Officer for the FSA Wales and will co-ordinate the bids for funding. Jayne said: 'Healthy eating plays an important role in the health of older people. It can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and some cancers, aid recovery from illness maintain independence and lead to a better quality of life. A good diet is especially important during the winter, when people can be at their most vulnerable to illness.
'There are no set rules for applicants to follow. The possibilities are probably endless, and we believe that local groups are best placed to know what is needed at a local level, and by whom. We are looking to these groups to suggest what would help them, and to submit a bid accordingly to gain from the funding that we have to offer.'
For further information, please contact:
Vicki Reilly ,
Food Standards Agency Wales
First Floor, Southgate House
Wood Street
Cardiff
CF10 1EW
Telephone 029 20 678912
Fax 029 20 678918/9 or
e-mail
Vicki.Reilly@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk
.
Applications must be received by 5 September 2002
Back to top1. Submissions for funding should consist of the following: a summary of the proposal; past experience, including examples of previous projects involving the target audience; cost; a timetable for delivery; details of the organisation(s) involved, and contact details for the organiser or applicant.
2. The Keep Well This Winter initiative is co-ordinated by the National Assembly for Wales, and provides information and support to people aged 65 and over, to enable them to keep well during the winter months.
3. One of the Food Standards Agency's roles includes providing advice to the public and Government on nutrition and diet. In providing this advice, it aims to achieve long term improvements in the diet and nutrition of the population and a reduction in inequalities by enabling and encouraging the disadvantaged and vulnerable to improve their diets.
4. The National Assembly for Wales' key partners in the Keep Well This Winter campaign are: Age Concern Cymru; Care and Repair Cymru; the Food Standards Agency Wales; National Energy Action; the Royal National Institute for the Blind and the Wales Youth Agency. The campaign is further supported by the National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux, the Welsh Local Government Association and NHS Direct Wales.
Back to top
11th Floor, Southgate House,
Wood Street,
Cardiff CF10 1EW
Telephone: 02920 678916
Fax: 02920 678918/9
Email:
caroline.kitson@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk
Find out what our other sites have to offer