HAF Toolkit for parents and providers
Food support
Food vouchers and resources, cooking, and local support.
Free digital food vouchers for the school holidays
Over school holiday periods we provide free digital food vouchers to families with children eligible for:
- free school meals
- early years’ pupil premium
- a 2-year-old funded free education place
If your family is eligible you will receive a voucher code from your school or early years setting.
Grow It, Cook It, Eat It
Grow it Cook it Eat is a community food growing and cooking project, that brings communities together.
There is no membership, no cost, and low to no commitment. Grow it Cook it Eat it provides:
- access to free fresh fruit and vegetables
- gardening activities that offer great low-impact exercise
- free cooking sessions that show families how to use fruit, vegetables, and herbs to create tasty, healthy, low-cost meals for the whole family
Food support help in Buckinghamshire
Community fridges and pantries, food banks and hubs.
Directory of resources
Find more food banks, community fridges, and other food support in our directory.
Get help to buy food and milk (the Healthy Start scheme)
If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk, on the NHS Healthy Start scheme.
If you’re eligible, you’ll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. We’ll add your benefit to this card every 4 weeks.
You can use your card to buy:
- plain liquid cow’s milk
- fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables
- fresh, dried, and tinned pulses
- infant formula milk based on cow’s milk
You can also use your card to collect:
- Healthy Start vitamins – these support you during pregnancy and breastfeeding
- vitamin drops for babies and young children – these are suitable from birth to 4 years old
Parents/carers could benefit from financial support totalling over £1,200 in their child’s first 4 years.
Other food resources
Every day, delicious, fresh food goes to waste at cafes, restaurants, hotels, shops, and manufacturers - just because it hasn’t sold in time.
The Too Good To Go app lets you buy and collect this food - at a great price - so it gets eaten instead of wasted. You won’t know exactly what’s in your order until you pick it up - it’s all part of the surprise.
Download the app to get started.
Residents can download the app to create an account. They can then search via their postcode for supermarkets/restaurants that are part of the To Good To Go scheme where they can then access reduced-price fresh food.
On OLIO, you’ll find millions of people giving away food and other household items to their neighbours, all for free.
Fight waste. Help your neighbours. Save our planet. Feel amazing!
Residents can download the Olio app and see what free food and household items are available