KickStart Breakfast Club in a school near you
The KickStart Breakfast Programme is operated by Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd (‘‘Fonterra’’) in partnership with New Zealand Health Association Ltd trading as Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing Company, and the Ministry of Social Development, ‘‘the partners’’.
In 2009, the KickStart Breakfast launched in 200 decile 1-4 schools in term one. The programme provided fresh Anchor Mega milk and Sanitarium WeetBix.
Then 2019 celebrated three huge milestones:
■ Welcomed our 1000th school to the programme
■ Served our 30 millionth breakfast
■ KickStart Breakfast celebrated 10 years.
2022 engagement:
■ Have served more than 50 million breakfasts
■ More than 42,000 children / tamariki and rangatahi have breakfast every school day
■ Welcomed almost 1400 schools to the programme
■ More than 2000 volunteers support these breakfast clubs.
KickStart Breakfast is a community partnership initiative helping tamariki achieve their best by getting a kickstart to their day.
KickStart Breakfast provides kai and guidance to help schools to run a successful, sustainable breakfast club to meet their needs.
There are several schools within the north Taranaki district that are currently involved in this programme and others that are looking to start in the next couple of terms.
We are putting out a request for people who may be interested in looking to support their local school in this programme.
Schools report a variety of benefits to children participating in KickStart Breakfast:
■ Improvement in class concentration levels
■ Improvement in general health
■ Improvement in children‘s behaviour
■ Building positive relationships with peers and teacher.
This programme is an awesome support to our schools to help our little people start the day with full tummies and energy to be open to learning. This is why we are looking to find more volunteers for all areas of our district of New Plymouth.
If you are interested in offering a few hours per school term week to support this programme, we are looking to support a school near you.
We are working with the KickStart Breakfast relationship manager to support this, so there are more schools coming on board all the time.
If it is not right for you right now, but you could be interested in future, think about giving us a call or sending a message to indicate your interest and we can update you as things change.
If you want to know more, you can also check out its website, kickstartbreakfast. co.nz.
If you are curious to learn more and/ or interested in becoming a volunteer, then please don’t hesitate, contact
Wendy at Volunteering New Plymouth on (06) 7588-986, email admin@ volunteeringnewplymouth.nz, or phone or text 022 571 4228 to take the next step.