Redbridge Food Poverty Steering Group

The agreed aims and objective of the alliance is to work together as partnership to: • Increase the uptake of Healthy start from 51% to 60% in 2019/20. • increasing the number of retailers accepting healthy start vouchers. • Working with local stall holders to promote and accept the vouchers. • Making links with Housing and our partners working in health to raise awareness of the scheme.

Members: London Borough of Redbridge’s Public Health Team, Children’s Centres, Benefits, Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure, RedbridgeCVS (Redbridge Council for Voluntary Service), Redbridge Trussell Trust Foodbank, and Sustain, Mercato Metropolitano, Housing,

Established: March 2017