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Useful links
This page provides quick and easy links to hundreds of breakfast club related resources.
Resources
Visit the resources page to download timesaving tools and resources. This will help you develop all aspects of your club and has been designed especially for Breakfast Club Plus.
Quick links
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- Activities
- Evaluation and monitoring
- Funding
- Nutrition and health
- Food Producers
- Regulations and inspections
- Transport
Activities
Growing food
- Garden Organic for Schools. Contains information on how to set up and manage a food garden and downloadable factsheets, games and teachers' resources.
Sports
- British Rope Skipping Association
- Children's Yoga
- English Federation of Disability Sport
- Kid Premiership
- Sport Wales
- Sport England
- Sport Scotland
- The Youth Sport Trust
Reading
Visits and Trips
Online Breakfast and Health Games and Activities
- Grainchain Teaching materials, worksheets, videos, quizzes, recipes and activities about farming, milling and baking
- Food Standards Agency - Bash Street Kids downloads
- BBC Northern Ireland Learning Interactive website for NI BBC education
- Jamie Oliver's school dinners Rubbish food at school? Get members involved
- Kellogg's interactive website with loads of games and activities
- The Food Dude programme An initiative to encourage and maintain healthy eating habits in children.
Evaluation and monitoring
- The Big Lottery Fund has good guidance reports and tools on self evaluation and monitoring projects. Go to their publications section and search for general evaluation.
- QISS - Quality in Study Support organisation provides support and guidance to schools and organisations helping to raise student attainment and development through out-of-school-hours activities or study support.
- Learning Exchange - visit our online support service for extra-curricular professionals and those extending schools, and find out how others have approached evaluation and monitoring.
Funding
- Visit our funding page for specific information.
Nutrition and Health
- NHS Choices - healthy eating Advice, essential facts and top tips for healthy eating
- The Food Magazine Independent food watchdog campaigning for safer, healthier food in the UK
- British Nutrition Foundation
- Food a fact of Life Provides a comprehensive and progressive approach to teaching healthy eating to primary schoolchildren.
- Food Standards Agency
- Food in Schools Wide range of information for teachers, parents, governors and health professionals and an online toolkit to help schools develop a whole school approach to healthy eating.
- Food Research and Action Centre (FRAC) Information and reports on how breakfast clubs and good nutrition benefit children
- British Dietetic Association
- Department of Health
- Scotland's Health Improvement Agency
- Public Health Agency of Northern Ireland
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (public health)
- Guild of food writers List of organisations supporting children's food and cooking
Food producers
- Big Barn A national directory of local producers. You can also telephone them for information on 01234 871 005
- FareShare A national charity that links up food producers and retailers with communities to reduce 'food poverty'. They redistribute surplus food in eight regional areas.
Regulations and Inspections
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Info on food handling courses
- St John's Ambulance Info on first aid courses
- Ofsted
- Estyn - Estyn are the Welsh Ofsted equivalent responsible for school inspections
- CSIW - Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales. Responsible for the regulation of child and early years care in Wales
- HMIe - Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education regulate and inspect Scottish schools
- Care Inspectorate - Responsible for regulating and inspecting care provision across Scotland
- Department of Education Northern Ireland - Responsible for inspection and regulation in Northern Ireland.
- Disclosures Criminal records checks for the whole of the UK
Transport
- Walking Bus scheme How to set up a walking bus.
