Campaigns and Interventions:
The Childhood Obesity Trailblazer gives the opportunity for local authorities to support and test strategies which support healthy weights and reduce levels of childhood obesity. The project takes a systemwide approach harnessing the power of four levers: system leadership, business engagement and support, positive planning possibilities and community-led action through social movements.
Taking both a top-down and bottom-up approach, HPHF is working with system leaders to engage and inspire action to support healthy weight and more broadly the health and wellbeing agenda; with food businesses to encourage a healthier offer and to provide business support in return; with planning authorities to support a healthier place by aligning policy across the districts and working with the system to use planning to support public health; and with the community to make sure what we are doing meets the needs of our Pennine Lancashire residents, giving them the opportunity to drive change and push for a healthier, accessible and affordable food environment.
During the project we will release free resources on the website, accessible whether you are a local planner, school or community group. Are you interested in joining our campaign for a better food environment to support our health and wellbeing? Check out what resources are available as part of the Healthier Place, Healthier Future programme below.
What does a fair and equal food system look like? Are we aware of how we are purposefully targeted by junk food marketing? How do you serve healthy food whilst owning a takeaway? Food brings us together on many different levels, from where food is produced and consumed to sitting together around a dinner table together. The Healthier Place Healthier Future Podcast is produced by the Pennine Lancashire Childhood Obesity Trailblazer team and aims to open the discussion on our relationship between the food environment and health. Tackling childhood obesity requires getting to grips with unhealthy food environments and understanding our capabilities to fix it.
In this podcast you can listen to our discussions with collaborators on the Healthier Place Healthier Future project. Episodes range from expert guest speakers, recounts of lived experiences of the food environment from food poverty, growing food, the food sphere in the planning system and more. Join us navigating this ‘new normal’ to map the creation of more inclusive and healthier food environments.
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