Nutritional & Health Awareness Award

Category Description

This award is open to retailers, chefs, nutritionists, food production organisations, pharmaceuticals and campaigners whose work has had a significant impact on local and/ or national delivery, policy, implementation or public nutrition with emphasis on awareness raising about healthy foods, obesity and education.

Projects will be recognised for leadership that demonstrates development, planning and, implementation of public nutrition. Projects must show demonstrative improvements on public health, collaborative working and influencing across a range of stakeholders.

The judges will be looking for innovative methods for engagement with end users as well as challenging fundamental misconceptions about nutrition and how it relates to health and well-being.

Projects will have been active between 2014-2016.

Criteria

Judges will be looking for evidence of the following points within the supplied application form (weighting percentages in brackets):

  1. How the project was scoped and developed to show the organisation’s commitment to influencing change in public nutrition; (25%)
  2. Awareness raising of the project to promote the scheme across the targeted audience; (20%)
  3. The measured effectiveness of the programme in terms of nutrition benefits, efficiencies and user satisfaction and whether there is verifiable data confirming the health benefits of the programme. (30%)
  4. Whether the organisation’s scheme demonstrates a long-term strategy and commitment to improve public health and nutrition, with support from senior management, and an integrated legacy element to ensure ongoing health benefits. (25%)