Presentation from Jennifer McDermot(HBC) & David Malone(RFW) at the NEFF event in Durham 22nd May 2013

1. Hartlepool Borough Council
BHF Hearty Lives Hartlepool:
The Generation Game -Younger & Wiser

2. The BHF Hearty Lives
Award Programme
In 2008 the British Heart Foundation (BHF)
introduced a new ‘Hearty Lives’ award
programme under its Prevention & Care
(P&C) work stream to continue its vital,
pioneering and caring work.

3. The Cluster Project Award
NHS Hartlepool and Hartlepool Borough Council –
joint bid for a BHF cluster project award to address
health inequalities due to Cardio Vascular Disease
(CVD) at the Local Authority level.
Cluster project award = £100,000 over a period of
3 years.

4. Title of Hartlepool cluster project:
BHF Hearty Lives Hartlepool:
The Generation Game – Younger & Wiser

5. BHF Hearty Lives Hartlepool
 Although the health of the population of
Hartlepool is improving the experience of ill
health, disability and premature death from
cardiovascular disease has impacted on
many families for generations evidenced in
local CVD mortality data.

6. BHF Hearty Lives Hartlepool
 Our project aims to support children (aged
7-14years) to make healthier choices and
break the cycle of ill health and premature
death from CVD experienced by their
parents and grandparents by getting
children and young people engaged,
proactive, healthy and skilled to make
healthier choices.

7. BHF Hearty Lives Hartlepool
Team
Contacts:
 Chris Briddon – BHF Nurse Practitioner
 Kate Watson – Health Improvement
Practitioner
 Jennifer McDermott – Community
Nutritionist
 Artie Beat!

8. Artie Beat!

9. Real Food Works

10. Real Food Works
We are a socially directed business, supporting people
in adopting a healthier lifestyle, through ‘down to
earth’, hand’s-on cooking workshops and
demonstrations.
We do this through sessions which are:
 Suitable for all ages
 delivered in the community
 cost-effective
 fully mobile
 tailor made for each group/organisation

11. Real Food Works
 Since 2006 we have, working in partnership
with more than 90 organisations, delivered
over 1,100 workshops & demonstrations
engaging with more than 43,000 people –
from 3 to 93 years young!

12. Alerted to tender through NEPO website
INVITATION TO TENDER
Hartlepool Borough Council are seeking to appoint a
suitable provider/s with appropriate culinary and health
education experience to plan, develop, deliver and
evaluate a fun interactive Children’s Healthy Cooking
Roadshow which supports the aims and ethos of the
Hartlepool Hearty Lives Programme ‘Younger and
Wiser’.

13. Tender Process:
1. Submitted proposal – Oct 2012
2. Shortlisted – Nov 2012
3. Invited for interview – Nov 2012
4. Interviewed – Dec 2012
5. Awarded contract – Dec 2012
6. Signed Contract – Mar 2013

14. Over the next 12 months we will be
working in all 30 primary schools across
the borough delivering sessions with yr 5
pupils, including:
 Heart Health information/activities
 Hands on cooking for every pupil
 The Cool Green Smoothie Machine
 Creating an on-line community to share learning

15. We plan to extend the work by
engaging with families, using the
children to demonstrate the skills &
knowledge they have gained, with
the aim of embedding the learning
within the family setting.

16. RFW contact David Malone:
david@realfoodworks.co.uk
www.realfoodworks.co.uk

17. Healthy Cookery Roadshow website:
http://www.healthycookeryroadshow.info