News & Events 1 December 2023
FOOD ROOTS
We are pleased to announce that London Citizens Advice are now being supported by the GLA to deliver training and take up support for Healthy Start as part of the GLA's Food Roots programme.
The GLA's Food Roots programme is a Pan-London initiative to develop partnerships between local authorities, civil society organisations and businesses to embed sustainable and resilient delivery approaches in tackling food insecurity within communities.
This will now include specific training and support provided by Citizens Advice to partnerships to help them to increase the take up of Healthy Start in their communities - Healthy Start is an NHS scheme that helps women who are pregnant or have young children and are receiving benefits, buy foods such as milk or fruit.
For more information on this project, and how it links to wider partnership work with the GLA, London boroughs and our community based Advice First Aid approach, see our projects and partnerships pages.