Children’s Healthy Weight team at B&NES Wellbeing Service are offering free courses to families to encourage healthy eating and lifestyle habits. Starting this month, classes will take place both locally and online.

Cook It! is currently being delivered online and in person. It is a five week cook-along style programme that aims to motivate and provide families with the skills and confidence to plan, prepare and cook healthy budget friendly family meals and to improve knowledge about healthy eating by covering topics such as eat well plate, portion sizes and healthy snacks.

LEAP is also delivered online or in person. Offering 1:1 support for children (with their family) aged 5-10 and 10-17, it is for six weeks. The topics covered include, healthy food and drink swaps, physical activity, impact of screen time and why we make certain food choices. Tailored goals are then set after every session and each child/parent receives a family booklet and session plan. After the course finishes, we offer three months of free leisure centre activities (including one adult).

Henry Healthy Families, delivered online and in person, is an eight week evidence based programme which supports families with young children to give them the best start in life and encourages a healthier lifestyle for the whole family. The programme supports physical and emotional wellbeing and covers nutrition, physical activity, portion sizes, screen time, looking after yourself, exploring children’s and parent’s feelings and managing challenging behaviour. Each parent receives a free set of helpful family resources – a course book, which includes recipe and activity ideas; children’s story books and soft ball, charts and more. For more info please go to the Henry website Homepage - https://www.henry.org.uk/. Further details on courses and start dates can also be seen at: https://bathneshealthandcare.nhs.uk/childrens/childrenshealthyweight/.