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Health & Nutrition - Helping settings grow their own food

How one Nursery World award-winning project is expanding children and staff's food horizons. By Meredith Jones Russell

The Children's Kitchen, a collaborative project between Bristol Early Years, Feeding Bristol and food educator Jo Ingleby, was judged ‘a stand-out winner’ in the Health & Well-Being category at the Nursery World Awards 2022 for its work providing opportunities for children in maintained nursery schools, Children's Centres and schools to grow and explore fresh produce.

Ingleby was also an Award winner in 2016 with the Food Project at Redcliffe Children's Centre and Nursery School. After budget cuts saw the Food Project come to an end, Ingleby left with what she describes as ‘a renewed confidence that this was an amazing approach which worked’, inspiring her to take the idea citywide, focusing on areas of food insecurity.

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