Zoe and Centra Retail Partners Praise School Winners

16th October 2008

Centra and its local retail partners joined Action Cancer patron Zoe Salmon recently to praise the 59 winning schools in the sixth annual Health Action Awards.

The awards are part of Action Cancer’s ongoing Health Action initiative, which offers a range of health promotion roadshows for primary and secondary schools, as well as further education colleges, and is sponsored by Centra.

The health-conscious schools impressed Action Cancer with their proactive approach to health education for pupils, and award-winning schools include those with healthy meals, extra-curricular exercise programmes, cancer awareness projects and education on the dangers of smoking.

Developed specifically for Northern Ireland schools, Health Action aims to educate young people on the importance of a healthy diet, care in the sun and the need to take exercise to help reduce future incidences of cancer and save lives. The award-winning programme is supported by the 86 Centra retailers across the province, who have raised more than £450,000 to fund Health Action over the past five years.

Pictured with pupils from Victoria Prep in south Belfast are Action Cancer patron Zoe Salmon and Centra retail partner Donagh McGoveran, owner of the Stranmillis store and the recently opened Malone Road Centra.