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Healthy Start Card

With Healthy Start you may be able to get a card topped up with money every week, which you can use for milk, fruit, vegetables, pulses and infant formula milk. You can also get free vitamins.

If you are pregnant or have children under the age of four and are on benefits, you could qualify. If you're pregnant and under 18 you could also qualify.

The Health Start website also covers subjects including:

  • healthy eating during pregnancy;
  • breastfeeding; and
  • recipes.

For more information, to check if you qualify and to get an application form please visit the website below or call the helpline.
 

Healthy Start vitamins can be picked up from the following locations:

Battersea

  • Yvonne Carr Children’s Centre - 2 Thessaly Road, SW8 2HT
    • Wednesday: 1pm - 3pm

Roehampton  

  • Eastwood Children’s Centre - 166 Roehampton Lane, SW15 4HR
    • Monday: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
    • Wednesday: 9:30am - 1:30pm

Tooting

  • Fayland Children’s Centre - Fayland Avenue, SW16 1SY
    • Tuesday and Thursday 1:30pm - 2:45pm (term time only)
    • Friday: 10am - 11:15am (term time only)


Please note that Wandsworth residents with a Healthy Start card can pick up from any of these locations.


If you need any help with applying for, or accessing, a Healthy Start card, please get in touch with either Paula on 07866 123 708 or Kathy on 07971 005 884.

Who to contact

Telephone

Website
www.healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply

Last updated: 26 Oct 2023