Redbridge Produce and Flowers has launched a scheme to bring fresh fruit to schoolchildren aged over seven years.
The initiative, called 7+, is designed to build on the Department of Health’s school fruit and vegetable scheme, which distributes free fruit to children up to the age of seven.
The 7+ initiative means that parents of children aged seven and over can now opt for their child to continue receiving a piece of fresh fruit a day for only £3.00 per half term.
Richard Clements, account manager at Redbridge, said: “With the Department of Health’s scheme only providing fruit for children under the age of seven, our scheme gives parents the opportunity to pay a relatively small amount of money to make sure they continue to enjoy the benefit of eating fresh fruit every day.”
Redbridge is a main distributor of fruit for the DoH schools scheme.
It recently won an extension of its contract to supply schools in the north east and north west of Britain, bringing the total amount of schools supplied by the company to 4,500.

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