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Swindon Wide
Let's do breakfa st for Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Nicci Nyahwha. Eunice Salmon breakfast bars. Deliveries can be As in previous years the organic
and volunteers are once again or- arranged in and around West produce will be donated by local
ganising their annual Breakfast for Swindon. Call for details, to book suppliers as well as supermarkets
Breakthrough at 5 Pilton Close in a collection or donate a raffle prize. and hotels in the town.
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Nine Elms on Friday 15 October,
7am to 10.45am. Planning early for the Breakthrough Moonwalk
Tuck into an organic full English Although next year's marathon Dozens were turned down from
or Continental in exchange for a walk through London is still to be the walk last May as the event has
IN5T(, (RUUPM, BILPON6, WOtl, < 68A t, minimum donation of £5. Places confirmed. Eunice Salmon is call- become so popular.
BII(11111 k RUIKI, DRIED FRUIT, TEA & (OPPEE, have to be booked in advance by To find out more go along to the
CNUTNEYI,1PICEl, (AU(EI AND MORE, ing together people who want to
calling Nicci on 886877 or Eunice join Swindon Twin Peaks to give meeting at Civic Offices in Euclid
WA: on 871606. them the best possible chance of Street on Tuesday 5 October,
PHONE: 01193323015 MARKETHAII
ANDREW AND JOHN MARKEfSTRW Alternatively, persuade your securing a place. 7.30pm.
ESMONDE-WH!S MOBILE: 07838158683 SWINDON work colleagues to join you for
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OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY
9am to 5.30pm breakfast baps made to your speci- Lethbridge leads the way in serving up
fication, croissants, juice and I
organic school dinners
When children at Lethbridge Primary School in Old Town finished their
ON lunch on the first day of term and returned to the servery to ask if they
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S HO ,, Purton House, Chu ch End, Purton, could have more broccoli - or trees' - the Let's Do Lunch Company knew
Wiltshire SN5 4EB • Tel: 01793 772287 they were onto a winner.
Set up by mums. Laura Ilsley before; now I'm having lunch in
www.purton-house.co.uk
`` and Pam Shipperbottom. Let's Do school every day."
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Lunch serves high quality meals The Soil Association works with
using organic meat and vegeta- schools to promote healthier diets.
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bles produced by local farms. Its Food For Life project aims to
Laura said the school could have increase the amount of fresh, local
Call us for details about joining lost its dinner service after Swin- and organic food available to chil-
don Services said it would pull out dren and reduce the amount of
our Organic Box Scheme unless it could negotiate a more processed food served. The or-
Vegetables • Fruit • Meat • Eggs expensive contract. ganisation is also encouraging
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Let's Do Lunch, from left, Lethbridge school cooks Lena Missen and Anna
Spooner, Laura //s/ey and Pam Shioperbottom. Peter Melchett of the Soil
Association. headteacher Ray Norman
"As a parent I know how difficult schools to make children aware of
it is to provide a nutritionally bal- the link between health and food.
anced packed lunch, so it is really Policy director Peter Melchett
important children have the oppor- said children will select the healthy
tunity to have a hot meal at school option if given the choice. "Chil-
during the day. We turned to the dren actually love good food that is
Soil Association for advice and help well-prepared. Organic food is
in preparing a business plan which much better for them as it doesn't
the school governors accepted. contain antibiotics, chemicals, pre-
"We no longer serve chips and servatives or colourings."
deep fried animal shapes. For the Julia Kindersley from Sheep-
same price we prepare meals from drove Organic Farm at Lambourn
raw ingredients supplied by farms said she was looking forward to
near Swindon. using less fat, salt, visits by Lethbridge children so that
sugar and chemical preservatives." they can learn more about where
After the first week of term. Lets their food comes from.
Open: Mon: 9am - 6pm; Tues: 9am- 8pm: Wed to Fri: 10am - 8pm; Sat: Sam - 4pm Do Lunch was serving 180 chil- Pam said she and Laura are happy
dren, compared with forty at the to talk to other schools interested in
West Swindon District Centre, next to Car Park A end of the last school year. learning how to provide healthy food
Tel: 01793 870462 Christopher Hayward, 9, said, to their children. She can be con-
"the food tastes much better than tacted on 07870 633845.