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Tender Details
- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Food Matters: Reducing Food Inequalities in Secondary Aged Young People 2024 - 2025
- GBT Ref No: 110502978
- Deadline: 13 Dec 2024
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: 35000
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: IT-380-3742-BBC PH 03742
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- It is increasingly difficult for people on a lower income to afford to eat a healthy diet. Demand for support from food banks and community food providers is growing, and providing healthy, fresh food can be challenging - due to the cost, shelf-life and storage requirements. Individuals and families in some forms of temporary accommodation or struggling with utilities bills may not have access to the means to store, prepare and cook fresh produce. This will negatively affect health outcomes and increase health inequalities, e.g. stunted growth, excess weight, worse oral health.
Around 4 in 10 adults still report having to spend more than usual on their food shopping and the number of people fed by Bedford Foodbank has trebled in the last 5 years. Among children and young people obesity prevalence is significantly higher in children living in the most deprived areas and obesity is more common among children of Black and Asian ethnicity (Source: NCMP, 5 years of data combined (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2021-22).
As part of the wider work to utilise the health inequalities funding, two objectives have been identified:
Objective 1: Work with the Food Providers' Network to increase the coverage and support the sustainability of emergency and community food provision.
Objective 2: Increase the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables for residents of all ages who are accessing emergency and community food provisi... - Documents :
Purchaser : BEDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL
Cauldwell Street Bedford United Kingdom MK42 9AP United Kingdom
Contact Person : Henry Masih
Email :Henry.Masih@bedford.gov.uk
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