Cars and Cakes make money for Comic Relief

Swindon Foyer residents raised a staggering £162,38 for Comic Relief in March 2009!

Hamud Saleban, Alex Rigley (to the right of photo here), Chantal McAdam, Shinette Woodward and Anwar Chema (to the left of photo here) washed and vacuumed cars all day for Jephson Housing Association staff and their Swindon Office raising £91,10.

Lucy Morgan, Leroy Allen, Callum Stone, Andrew Wilson, Robbie Ruddock, Christina Taylor, Kaylie Fitchett, Katie Ettenfield and Bryn Harding baked and sold cakes outside the Foyer to passers by raising a furher £71,28.

Healthy Eating Taster Session Photos

Brighton and Hove Foyer Picnic

Blackburn with Darwen Foyer - 'Smoothie Making Bike'

First Step Foyer - 'Are you Fresh or Preserved?'

Leominster Foyer -Winners of Credit Munch Month competition Lauren Homer and Jason Scotford

Market Rasen Foyer - Beekeeping

Market Rasen - Organic meal

Market Rasen - Fruit Machine

Physical Activity Taster Session Photos

Market Rasen Foyer - Gym inductions

Market Rasen Foyer - Games Day

Market Rasen Foyer - Rounders

Rugeley Foyer Self-Defense Taster Session

Mental Well-being Taster Session photos

Market Rasen - Indian Head Massage



Redbridge Foyer Relationship Building Day

Yeovil Foyer Glass Decorating

Sexual Health stall at Redbridge Foyer

Food and Mood

Torbay Food and Mood Workshop

The role of the Healthy Eating Ambassadors was to work alongside the Foyer Federation, Foyers and young people to ensure that our healthy eating initiatives not only make an impact on young people in Foyers and their food choices over the course of the programme, but also make a longer term impact on the policy and evidence base concerning increasing access to a healthy diet for disadvantaged youth. We recruited three Healthy Eating Ambassadors:

Jessica Mitchell – The Food Commission
Simon Boyle – Beyond Boyle
Jenny Sansom – Sustain

10 Food and Mood workshops were run by Sustain, and a total of 96 Foyer staff and residents participated in the programme.

To find out more about Sustain click here: http://www.sustainweb.org/

The 2 main aims of the workshop were to:

Increase the knowledge of Foyer staff about the links between diet and mood and equip and provide information on residents.

Make Foyer residents aware of the benefits food can have on how they feel, and equip them with food related skills.

Workshop programme

• Residents introduced themselves and said what they had for breakfast. Healthy snacks (fruit, raw veg, brown pitta breads and dips etc) were provided for the residents to snack on

• Discussion on Food and Mood – getting residents to acknowledge the link between food and mood, and that making good food choices will have a positive effect on their emotions
  
• Food groups and the giant food and mood plate – young people interact with the plate placing different foods in the right section (protein, starchy food, good fats, bad fats, fruit and veg), therefore displaying a balanced diet
  
• Caffeine quiz (link will be posted at a later date, watch this space!)
  
• Blood Sugar Balancing – Balancing blood sugar is a really vital element of how food can affect our mood – the group looked a the difference between slow burn and fast burn food
• Cooking a meal together and eating together
  

To see an example of a simple curry recipe, click here:
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/706/quick-vegetable-curry.aspx

• Many residents learned new skills such as chopping and preparing vegetables and spices

• Visit to a place where healthy food comes from such as organic farm or an allotment – Torbay Foyer spent the afternoon at an Organic Farm and picked and sampled various fruit, vegetables and flowers

What did Torbay Foyer residents think of the Organic Farm visit?

"I will buy organic veg and grow my own veg from now on."
"I will eat breakfast more often and eat more healthily."
"I will try to eat more wholegrain food."
"I will take care of myself."
"I am now not afraid of eating organic food."