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Edible Playgrounds
Many children in inner city areas don’t know where their food comes from
Increasingly exposed to unhealthy food choices and with limited opportunities to grow and eat good food, one in three children leaving primary school are overweight or obese.
Edible Playgrounds offer a lively, engaging, multi-sensory way to teach children about growing and eating healthy food. Aside from the physical health benefits that eating well brings, learning in an outdoor environment combats Nature Deficit Disorder and has been shown to increase mental health by boosting mood, confidence and self-esteem. Furthermore, allowing the children to connect with nature develops attentiveness and self-reliance in the pupils, leading to more sustainable behaviours in the long term.
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Edible Playgrounds have been created across the UK
We’ve already created 162 Edible Playgrounds, which supports thousands of children across the UK. But we want to make more, and we need your help to do it.
Check out some of our Edible Playgrounds projects
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How Edible Playgrounds Can Cultivate Mental Wellbeing
Cardiff, WalesThe UK is experiencing a mental health crisis, but our Edible Playgrounds programme shows that making playgrounds greener can help children's mental wellbeing.
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Thorpe Primary School
BradfordOne of Bradford's first ever Edible Playgrounds located at Thorpe Primary School in the village of Idle!
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Greening Cardiff's Schools
Cardiff, WalesWe have partnered with Cardiff Council to deliver 10 new Edible Playgrounds in primary schools across Cardiff.
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The Link School
SunderlandThe Edible Playground is especially built to support pupils who have additional and behavioural needs, and offers a dedicated sensory area - perfect for meditation classes!
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Blessed Sacrament Primary School
LiverpoolA ‘hub school’ that is keen to share best practice with other schools, Blessed Sacrament can thank the Peter O’Sullevan Charitable Trust for making their plans a reality.
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Loxford School
LondonThe Loxford Edible Playground is the largest project we have completed to date, designed to be used by children in both primary and secondary school.
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Lyng Primary school
West BromwichAt Lyng Primary we wanted to enhance their outdoor learning opportunities. We would never have thought that this project would be partnering with the food bank during a pandemic.
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Aquarius Young Peoples Centre
BirminghamThe new Edible Playground has given the young people at Aquarius a garden for fruits, vegetables and herbs, alongside sensory and wildlife areas to spend time in.
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Hitherfield Primary school
LondonYour memories of school dinners might involve soggy sandwiches or lumpy custard, but today lots of schools are embracing new ventures that celebrate growing and eating good food.
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Fairchildes Primary and Meridian High School
LondonThese are two of Croydon’s Food Flagship Schools, supported by the Mayor of London, and they’re leading the way in encouraging the local people to grow and eat healthy food.
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St Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary School
LiverpoolAcademic research has shown that food-growing in schools has a positive impact on pupils’ diets, attitudes towards healthy eating and levels of physical activity.
93%
of teachers told us that Edible Playgrounds had a positive impact on pupils’ attitude towards healthy eating.