Healthy Start Information

Healthy Start


Healthy Boxes operates the Healthy Start Voucher Scheme for our fruit and vegetables


What is Healthy Start?

With Healthy Start, you can get free vouchers every week which you swap for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins. Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme.

The weekly vouchers are worth £3.00 and the qualifying maximum income for families receiving Child Tax Credit has been increased to £15,575

 

How to apply

 Applying for Healthy Start is very easy.

Get an application form and fill it in.

Take the application form to your midwife or health visitor.

Ask them to fill in and sign Part B of the form or give you a letter confirming that you're pregnant and/or that you've got children under the age of four.

Make sure all the information is correct and sign the form.

Send the form (and the letter if you have one) to us - no need for a stamp.

How to get the application form

Before you look at the application form, you may want to check if you qualify first.

Either

Go to your local Job Centre

Go on line at:- www.healthystart.nhs.uk

Ring up the Issue Unit on:- 0845 607 68 23

You can save time by filling in the application form online. But remember, you'll need to print it out - and get your midwife or health visitor to sign it. Once you have completed the form you will need to send it to the following Freepost address (no stamp needed):

 

Healthy Start Issuing Unit

FREEPOST RRTR-SYAE-JKCR

PO Box 1067

Warrington

WA55 1EG