We deliver 6 different environmental and healthy lifestyle themed after-school clubs in Westminster, reaching around 450 children, aged 7-11yrs every year.  Children learn about healthy eating, climate change and other environmental issues through creative activity and play. 

The After School Clubs are run by professional artists and workshop leaders, who use a combination of outside play, drawing, movement, dance, music, animation and sculpture to explore concepts of healthy eating, healthy active lifestyles and positive environmental behaviour.

The children have the opportunity to grow their own produce, create menus, aprons and bags, as well as making healthy, irresistible meals and smoothies.  Through this activity the children develop greater understanding of how a healthy diet and exercise can contribute to overall well-being and as such they become more empowered to make their own informed choices.

Each term the children have the opportunity to share their learning with teachers and families at a showcase event. 

What we offer this provision:

We believe that by engaging children in environmental issues from an early age, we will be helping them to live a more sustainable and healthy life, it is our hope that their positive environmental behaviour and ‘know how’ will be infectious, filtering through to the wider community and right on into future generation

Westminster childhood obesity facts:

This work is also really important as research shows that at least a third of Westminster children are overweight or obese, putting child obesity levels at the second highest in London. 

School nurses weighed and measured more than 90 per cent of pupils in both Reception (five -six year olds)  and Year Six (9-10 year olds) in 39 out of 40 Westminster primary schools. 

Overall 18 per cent of children were obese, 14 per cent were overweight, with 32 per cent either overweight or obese.  Just over a quarter of children in Reception were overweight or obese, with that number rising to 39 per cent in Year Six.