Healthy Lifestyles Competition

Four lucky Make Space Clubs have each won £1,000 to be spent on equipment or activities that all of their club members can enjoy in the pursuit of healthy lifestyles. The prize money for the Make Space Healthy Lifestyles competition was raised by Nestlé UK’s Food & Beverage team. Thank you to all those who entered the competition.

Congratulations to our winners:

  • The Chill House at Farringdon Community Sports College
    in Sunderland.
  • Horizons Young People’s Centre in Kingsbridge, Devon
  • North Bersted Youth Club in North Bersted, West Sussex.
  • Pelton Youth Project in Chester le Street, County Durham
Here are what three of the winning clubs are up to...

The Chill House

The Chill House at Farringdon Community Sports College in Sunderland is one of four young people’s clubs around the country to be celebrating winning £1,000 from Nestlé’s Food and Beverage team in the Make Space Healthy Lifestyles competition.  Four young people and two staff members at the club have been trained to help deliver the Let’s Get Cooking Programme, which involves healthy cooking activities that all of the 93 club members can join in. As a next step, the young people want to grow their own fruit and vegetables to develop their understanding of healthy food, using part of a community Jubilee Centre garden on the school site. The garden was designed and built as an intergenerational project, and is fully accessible for people with disabilities.

The new project will also be a joint effort between the Chill House and the Jubilee Centre, utilising existing skills within the community and enabling young people to learn these skills themselves. The prize money will go towards a greenhouse, gardening equipment and plants. The young people will be involved from the very beginning – planning, preparing the plot, planting and then reaping the fruits (and vegetables!) of their efforts to make healthy dishes.

The North Bersted Youth Club

The North Bersted Youth Club in West Sussex is celebrating their win in the recent Make Space Healthy Lifestyles competition! The club has been awarded £1,000 from Nestlé’s Food and Beverage team in order to improve their kitchen area. It has become a haven for 20+ young people, allowing them the chance to relax and make friends as well as do things they might not normally get the chance to do. One of those things is cooking. The young people love to cook, and often plan their own recipes, including finding out what country the food came from and what was added to it before the food got to them. The club also uses a variety of equipment such as camping stoves, woks and toastie makers to make their food – demonstrating that healthy food can be cooked on almost anything and in any situation. 


In their enthusiasm, the cooker, fridge, freezer and worktop areas have had quite the workout and now need to be replaced. Their aim in entering the competition was to be able to put the money to good use by updating their kitchen and cooking equipment, and now they can!

Horizons Young People’s Centre

Horizons Young People’s Centre in Kingsbridge, Devon has won £1,000 from Nestlé’s Food and Beverage team in the Make Space Healthy Lifestyles competition. The young people at the centre want to tackle one of the major issues among their peers today – body image and self-confidence. They are planning to set up a 12 week health awareness project that focuses on living healthy lifestyles rather than dieting.

The young people want to learn more about eating healthy food, exercising and being confident, to support them in being happy and healthy – so they can be their own role models and comfortable in themselves, rather than feeling pressure to be like the airbrushed models in glossy magazines.

The £1,000 prize money will go towards membership of the local Youth Night at the leisure centre so they can access a variety of activities; dance and exercise DVDs; setting up a healthy food café; healthy living information sessions; activity sessions such as karate and outdoor pursuits; running a basic food hygiene course so young people can learn about the safe preperation of food and basic cooking skills; and advertising the project to other local young people.