Breckland Council Healthy Eating Interventions

Following the Workplace Healthy Eating Audit that Uscreates carried out in Breckland Council offices, to identify barriers to healthy eating, Breckland Council commissioned Uscreates to design and implement methods of promoting healthy eating in the workplace. Below are the interventions that we are developing to be installed later this month.

Honesty Fruit Bowl

An interactive poster promoting the ‘Five a Day’ message and providing fruit for the workplace.

Why?
The Breckland site has limited food-purchasing facilities. Breckland Council wanted to provide their workforce with healthy food opportunities within a limited budget.

What?
We worked with staff and health specialists to develop ideas to introduce to the Breckland site. Uscreates developed the honesty fruit bowl concept into a low cost product back up by a simple service to allow staff easy access to fruit but without high cost to the organisation.

Health and Nutrition MOTs

A day of Health and Nutrition MOTs offering the workforce a fifteen minute one-to-one session with a qualified dietician.

Why?
Breckland Council wanted to provide opportunities and support for individuals who wanted to make improvements to their health and nutrition.

What?
We worked with dietician’s to develop a questionnaire and one-to-one session, which measured BMI, weight, and waist measurements. The sessions provided participants with a 5-point action plan to make positive changes to their diets. A personalised text service will send out relevant information supporting the action plans.

Lunch delivery service

A lunch pack delivery service providing a minimum of 3 or your 5 A Day fruit and vegetables conveniently delivered to your desk.

Why?
Breckland Council offices are situated on an industrial estate in rural Dereham. There are very limited healthy food options available for staff for lunch.

What?
We worked with the local sandwich delivery van ‘Sandwitch’ to develop a healthy food pack that contains at least 3 or your 5 A Day fruit and veg.

This service is still under development but other plans include devising a system where packs are delivered to employee’s desks which will help to make the healthy option the easy option.

Breakout Zone

A Breakout zone providing the workforce with an area to eat lunch away from their desks.

Why?
The audit showed that the majority of staff ate lunch and took their lunch break at their desk. Breckland Council wanted to provide opportunities for staff to take a quality lunch break away from their workstation.

What?
We are working with the staff to transform the staff room into a Breakout Zone refreshing the current interior and providing dinning furniture. New signage for the Breakout Zone will encourage staff to use the space and to take quality breaks away from their desks.

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