Families for Life provide free healthy lifestyle programmes and sessions to families in Islington. Families for Life is made up of the following programmes:
The offer of programmes is as follows:
Family Kitchen
Family Kitchen is a cooking course with healthy lifestyle messages that has been designed to help families with children aged 2 to 11 to make healthy lifestyle choices to 'feel good and live well'. Parent and children attend a weekly programme together.
Families for Life sessions
Families for Life focus more on healthy lifestyle messages with minimal food preparation.
Lunch bunch
Lunch Bunch sessions are available over the Easter and summer holiday for you to cook a delicious meal with your child and sit down and eat together.
More information
During the Covid-19 lockdown programmes are being run via zoom or telephone sessions.
Families for Life telephone sessions
These are one-off sessions covering a range of topics such as eating well at home, breakfast ideas and hidden sugars, understanding labels and portion sizes and staying active at home. Fill out the booking form to arrange a telephone conversation about a topic relevant to you and we will get back to you to arrange a suitable date and time.
Virtual Family Kitchen weekly programme
These are run via zoom with new programmes starting every half term. Each session you'll cook a simple meal together and includes useful information, such as how to deal with fussy eating and label reading. Each session is an hour and a half. We run programmes for families with children in early years or in primary. Follow the link to find out when the programmes are held:
Lunch Bunch
As part of Lunch Bunch, Family Kitchen will be offering sessions over the Easter and summer holiday for you to cook a delicious meal with your child and sit down and eat together. There will be no cost to you for ingredients. More detail on when the sessions will be running will be available soon.
How to book
For families
To book on a programme, please email us. You will be sent a form to complete which asks for your contact details and about the ages of your children.
For professionals
To refer a family, please email. Please make sure to use a secure email system if you are emailing us from outside of the council. You will be sent a form to complete with details about the family, your contact details and the name of the family's GP.
For more information contact Families for Life on 020 7527 2304 or email
Families for Life Community Champion Programme
Interested in becoming a Families for Life Community Champion and supporting your friends and family to 'feel good and live well'? Find out more here.
Families for Life e-newsletter
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