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The Link Magazine • October 2005 7
Delivering better nutrition for
Purton House
our children at school Church End, Purton, Swindon

The Dinner Lady Jeanette Orrey returns to Swindon
01793 772287
to speak at Soil Association Food for Life conference
organised by Link magazine and Lets Do Lunch SA Cert G7959& P9204 www.purton-house.co.uk
In the Spring Jamie Oliver focused on the gruesome food pro- Great locally grown and reared food
vided at some schools around the country in his highly successful
Join our Organic Vegetable Box Scheme
TV programme.
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Rightl , many parents in the department and from the health New meat box scheme. Next delivery takes Ssoc,
town worry if their children are authority need to work closely with place on 6 October. Beef from Purton House, o` P 9
receiving the right nutrition. And headteachers and governors to lamb, pork bacon & sausages from other local 9^Q
with Swindon Services pulling out ensure children get quality nutri- Soil Association registered producers 4CS,PV
of school catering, the state of food tion in schools."
provision in some of Swindon Jeanette Orrey, the dinner lady LOCAL DELIVERIES & DROP OFF POINTS
schools is not healthy. who inspired Jamie Oliver to start For details call 772287 or visit www.purton-house.co.uk
Governors at some schools in his school meals' crusade, spoke at
Swindon have set up their own May's Swindon Festival of Litera-
catering service, employing their ture. Unfortunately her talk took
own staff. Others are working with place at midday when dinner la-
small locally based companies to dies and governors were working.
provide a hot meal prepared in She's now school meals' policy
school, whilst a third group have advisor for the Soil Association giv-
set up new con- ing talks across the
tracts with large country.
catering compa- The DeVere Ho-
nies who prepare tel, Shaw Ridge has
food in factories agreed to provide
many miles away the venue for the
which is then de- conference onMon-
livered to the town day 7 November.
and distributed to County dietician
school serveries. Fiona Dickens and
A fourth group a local food pro-
of schools do not ducer will also
provide a cooked speak with Jeanette.
lunch and give Link publisher
sandwiches to chil- Roger Ogle said, "it
dren entitled to was a pity so few
free school meals. people heard
Jamie Oliver's Jeanette talk at the n It's simple!
programme forced Festival of Litera-
Government to offer more money ture but the issues exposed by Jamie ii' 1 You drop it off
to schools to be spent on ingredi- Oliver are too major to be left alone.
ents. And a new Food Trust will "Nationally eight and half per 2 We sell it on
monitor the quality of meals when cent of six year olds are classed as
it is up and running. obese, so are 15 per cent of 15 year eBay for you
Pamela Shipperbottom, a part- olds. It is bizarre that some Swin-
ner in Lets Do Lunch, which pre- don children are eating meals pre- 3 We send you
pares hot meals using mainly or- pared in a factory 90 miles away,
ganic produce in four Swindon pri- when there are farmers within five Let Us Auction It a cheque
mary schools, said she was very miles who can deliver excellent
worried about the inconsistent pro- quality food.
vision of meals across the town. "It "Jeanette and Jamie have shown Turn your treasures into cash and let us sell
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part of Swindon eat quality food health and behaviour, and in turn With an audience of more than 175 million people,
cooked on site using fresh ingredi- attention in the classroom. There
ents, whilst others get a meal that's is no case for ignoring the crisis in someone is guaranteed to be interested
cooked at a factory in the Midlands. childrens' health; the future for in your goods.
"Policy makers from Swindon them as adults does not bear think- We also specialise in selling surplus and
Council's new Childrens' Services ing about.
"It's great the DeVere are host- end-of-line stock for local businesses
ing the event which I hope will
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in aid of Macmillan cancer relief Before the conference Lets Do 0845 22 694 22
Friday 30 September Lunch will serve supper, allowing Let Us Auction It Limited
participants to sample healthy, lo-
10am - 11.30am
cally sourced food available at BSS House, Unit 36
Basepoint Business Centre,
Rivermead Drive, West Swindon some local schools. Cheney Manor Industrial Estate
Because of the limited space
Coffee, Phoenix Trading Cards, available, the conference is open Swindon SN2 2PJ
chance to win an Audi A4
to invited people.
Details from Debbie Mason: 07986 324273 www.letusauctionit.co.uk
www.soilassociation.org/
www.macmillan.org.uk/coffee
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