HEALTHY EATING GIVES CASH BOOST TO CHILDREN’S CHARITY

Solutions SK’s award-winning School Meals Team have been working with a food supplier to raise more than £550 for Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s Charity.

The team worked with Pasta King on a charity initiative in primary schools across the borough, to encourage children to eat healthy as well as raise funds for the children’s charity.

For every case of products purchased by Solutions SK, a Stockport Council wholly owned company, the food supplier agreed to donate £1 to the charity, which provides funds for children’s hospitals and hospices throughout the UK.

The School Meals Team encouraged children to eat a nutritious pasta dish and raised funds of £569 for the charity, in just over a year.  

Councillor Shan Alexander, Stockport Council’s Executive Member for Lifelong Learning and Achievement, said:

“Promoting healthy eating in schools is a key priority and combining this with raising money for a children’s charity makes this a very worthy scheme.”          

                           Above: Stockport’s healthy young eaters

Managing Director of Solutions SK, Stephen Morris, said:

“We are pleased to support initiatives like this and promote health and wellbeing in the local community.

“We believe it is important to work with our schools and the Stockport community to ensure Stockport is a great place to live and work. The company looks forward to our next opportunity in putting added value back into areas that we work in.”

Head of Fundraising at Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s Charity, Marie Storey, thanked Solutions SK for their involvement in the community.

Marie said:

“Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Charity would like to say a huge thank you to Solutions SK and all the schools and children in Stockport for raising a fantastic £569 for the charity by enjoying our wonderful Wallace & Gromit pasta meals.

“Every penny raised will help sick children in hospitals and hospices across the UK, including Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.”

For further information about Wallace and Gromit’s Children’s charity visit: www.wallaceandgromitfoundation.org

Pictured are pupils from Bradshaw Hall Primary School, who took part in the scheme