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The 21st January is World Religion Day, a chance to learn about and celebrate all religions. This provides a great opportunity for pupils to find out what makes each religion unique and special, including the various ways that religious beliefs can influence food choices, dietary …

The PhuunkyFoods Healthier Communities project encourages and allows pupils to come up with ideas and implement them to help their communities lead healthier lives, putting in to practice everything they’ve learnt with PhunkyFoods. They can address an issue that they’ve encountered, or that someone else …

On Monday 16th October, a class of children from Richard Taylor Primary School in North Yorkshire, visited White Quarry Farm in partnership with LEAF education to explore where our food comes from and how farmers manage their land. When the children arrived at the farm, …

This month we have been finding out more from Richardson’s Dee’s Primary School who have been working with Phunky Foods to come up with their own project to benefit the community. Here’s what the children have to say about their project. TASTE IT DON’T WASTE …

        This term, Handcross Primary School in West Sussex have been working on a ‘Healthy Me’ topic across Key Stage 1. Caroline Cotton, our EDC for the Crawley area, was able to spend two days with the school supporting this topic work, …

What a great 4 weeks we’ve had! Purely Nutrition have been back in Wiltshire supporting the delivery of the Wiltshire FUEL holiday programme over August. These camps provide free activities and hot food to children during the summer holidays. We’ve worked across 12 camps to …

Here at PhunkyFoods, we love books! Books can educate, entertain, inspire and allow us to experience new places and situations. There are so many other books relating to food topics from recipe books to traditional tales to children’s story books. We have our very own …

The 10th of November celebrates World Science Day for Peace and Development and the theme for 2022 is Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development. The aim of this day is to promote sciences, which in turn will help the United Nations meet the 17 sustainable development …

This summer the Purely Nutrition team were again involved in the Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF), this time across several counties and venues throughout the UK. The provision ranged from 2 hours of face-to-face nutrition education delivery with a specialist team of nutritionists at …

Harvest is a wonderful time to think about the food that grows and is produced around us, from blackberries in the hedgerows to vegetables from our gardens. Seasonal food is so good for our bodies because it is naturally ripe and ready and full of …