Nottingham City schools can apply for funding to support pupil-led, sustainable projects that improve access to healthy food and boost wellbeing. The deadline is Friday 28 November 2025. Don’t miss your chance to secure support for facilities, equipment, or garden spaces. Apply here.
Need ideas? Be inspired by these pupil-led success stories:
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George Abbot School (Surrey) – Students formed a School Food Champions group that improved menus and led food-culture campaigns. Read more
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Batley Girls’ High School (West Yorkshire) – Used the Food for Life model to embed pupil voice into a full-school healthy eating approach. Read more
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Meadowlands Primary School (Hampshire) – Pupils helped transform their school meal experience through food education and inclusive menus. Read more
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We are looking forward to welcoming colleagues to the Nottingham Healthy Child Conference on Thursday 27th November 2025. The conference is now full!
If you haven't already chosen your preferred workshops, please click here to do so. It's going to be a great day!
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This practical workshop, taking place on 29th January 2026 from 15.30 to 17.30, is designed for teachers to build awareness of sensory needs and wellbeing. Whether you’re learning to understand your student’s sensory worlds or realising your own sensory needs have taken a back seat in the classroom, this session is for you. Led by Alice Hoyle, neurodivergent parent, educator, and author of Becoming a Sensory-Aware School which has been purchased for all attendees, we’ll explore how to use the book to bring sensory wellbeing into your classroom with an additional focus on the PSHE curriculum.
What You’ll Discover:
What sensory wellbeing really means – and why it matters
The 8senses (not just 5!) and how they affect us
How to spot and understand sensory thresholds and the window of tolerance
What 'sensory welldoing' looks like in real life
50 free places available for schools in Nottingham City with free resource. Book here.
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This November (16th to 22nd), Brake is running Road Safety Week 2025, uniting schools nationwide to promote safer journeys for everyone. Free resources and classroom activities are available to help pupils learn vital road safety skills.
This November, schools are encouraged to join the End Violence Against Women campaign, helping pupils learn about respect, equality and positive relationships. Take action by organising a walk, awareness day or classroom discussion to show support and raise awareness.
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This November, get pupils moving for kindness. Mark Odd Socks Day with an active twist organise a fun run, walk, or dance event celebrating individuality and teamwork. Promote inclusion, positivity, and the message that everyone is unique.
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Gambling related harm impacts many families across the country, including in Nottingham. People can experience harm both directly and indirectly. Often harms are identified too late or not at all, and people affected are left feeling alone and that they are to blame. Sadly hundreds of people take their lives every year because of gambling.
Chapter One prevention programmes provide information, training and support, formed and informed by people with lived experience.
Nottingham City Council have commissioned the charity to deliver two different training programmes for professionals who may encounter adults at risk of/experiencing gambling harm and for professionals working with children and young people aged between 13 and 25. The training will give participants knowledge, confidence, skills and resources to prevent gambling-related harms and support those affected.
This training will cover:
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What are gambling related harms?
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Addressing gambling related shame and stigma
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Exploring the question: Why not just stop gambling?
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What gambling related harms look like and how to spot indicators of harm
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Identifying who is affected by gambling related harms
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How to begin the conversation about gambling harms
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Services to signpost and refer to
Both programmes are free and will be delivered in person or online. You can book into online sessions here. If you and your team would like to book a bespoke online or in-person session, please get in touch with the team directly hello@chapter-one.org
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Veg Power is running fresh, fun campaigns this year to help children enjoy more vegetables at school and at home. Join initiatives like Eat Them to Defeat Them and Attack the Snack! to bring healthy eating to life with activities, challenges and resources. These programmes come with free lesson plans, assemblies and activity packs, designed to make vegetable-eating fun and engaging for schools.
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Attack the Snack!: encouraging healthier snacking with more vegetables.
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Boosting Beans: motivating children and families to eat more beans and pulses.
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Growing to Love… a project for children to grow their own vegetables and build a love of greens.
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Bring learning to life with a free Community Garden Experience, part of Nottingham City Council’s Eating and Moving for Good Health Strategy.
Pupils can get their hands dirty growing fruit and vegetables, exploring wildlife, and discovering where healthy food comes from. Each visit includes fun, active learning, seed packs, and recipe cards to continue the adventure at home. Free transport for up to 40 pupils is available.
Book your session directly with a community garden or email why.nott@nottinghamcity.gov.uk for more details.
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Apply for a free place on our Autism and Wellbeing schools training programme, a two-day course developed by world leaders in the autism field, with resources co-produced by neurodivergent people of all ages.
On the course, you’ll increase your understanding of neurodivergence and how to support the mental health of your autistic students. You’ll also learn about:
- the impact of autism myths and stereotypes
- communication and sensory differences between autistic and non-autistic children and young people
- the causes and impacts of masking, meltdown and shutdown, and autistic burnout
- promoting wellbeing for autistic students and staff.
Participants take part in a two-day funded training programme and receive three one-to-one mentoring sessions to help staff embed their learning and adapt approaches in their own school settings.
Funding criteria
Funded places are available for staff from mainstream primary and secondary schools working in KS2, 3 or 4. Each school that completes the programme will receive £150 to support their participation.
Find out more by emailing autism.schools@annafreud.org
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