This Sugar Awareness Week (13th-19th November 2023), Food Plymouth and partners Food is Fun CIC, Livewell Southwest and Plymouth City Council Public Health team are delighted to announce the relaunch of the Sugar Smart Plymouth campaign, which first ran as a highly successful initiative across the city between 2018 and 2020.
SUGAR SMART is a campaign first established by Sustain to help local authorities, organisations, workplaces and individuals to reduce the amount of sugar we all consume. Anyone can pledge to become SUGAR SMART, from councils and schools to restaurants, hospitals and independent companies. The campaign is now led by local organisations all over the UK, including right here Plymouth. Together with individuals, businesses and organisations across the city, we want Plymouth to become a Sugar Smart city and create a food environment which encourages healthy choices and reduces the promotion of foods high in free sugars. And to do this, we need Sugar Smart Ambassadors – trained individuals able to help educate others in their workplace, neighbourhood, business or organisation about becoming sugar smart too.
Starting today with two workshops led by Livewell Southwest, Sugar Smart Ambassador training sessions will look at the key health effects of excess sugar in our diets and will consider the key messages we can deploy. They will also explore how, where and when we can promote this campaign and what resources are available, with an emphasis on sharing practical ideas relevant to our different situations (at work, with friends, in the community, and more). By becoming a Sugar Smart Ambassador, you’ll get support from a network of individuals all working together to improve the local food environment. For more information, please email foodplymouth@outlook.com.
If you’re planning to or already are taking action on sugar as an individual, workplace, business, healthcare or education setting, we want to know! Please tell us about it using the Food Plymouth Best Food Forward pledge tool here. You can also let us know more about the outcomes and impact of your Sugar Smart work using this online form.
