A CHARITY event in Chard is doing its bit to encourage parents and children to take up healthy eating.

Health and Local Food for Families (HALFF) held their latest Make and Munch session at Crowshute House on Thursday.

The charity helps parents and carers of young children offer healthy food for their family by improving knowledge of cooking and nutrition.

HALFF are lottery funded and cover East Devon, South Somerset and West Dorset. Their shop ‘No Halff Measures’ in South Street, Axminster, is open every weekday morning.

Tom Gard of HALFF said: “The events in Chard have been really successful and the response has been fantastic. If we can get kids eating healthily early on and parents confident enough to cook well they will take that through their lives.”

While parents are in the sessions Gill Francis, a family worker from the Methodist Church in Chard, helps out with provision of child care via the Action for Children charity.

Such partnerships were a key part in the decision to host the events at Crowshute House, as the church recommended the venue to the charity.

Julie Philp, from Chard, who has been attending the events for about a year now said: “This is something the mums can do as well as the kids. The sessions give us good ideas and we get useful leaflets to take away with us.”

The next Make and Munch session will be held in Chard on Thursday, February 10. For further information contact HALFF on 01297-631782 or follow the link on this story.