School and dental practice partnerships – a route to awesome oral health

A new campaign to clean up the UK’s snacking culture has been launched by social enterprise Awesome Oral Health. Established by dental nurse Jo Dawson, a Cambridgeshire mother-of-two, the campaign is supported by a group of big hitters from the dental world, on a mission to make the UK’s snacking culture healthier.

Her campaign has three aims - to encourage:

Jo’s campaigning work began after her first daughter went to primary school. Like many other children in primary education, she benefits from the government-funded School Fruit and Vegetable scheme (SFVS). Jo loves that her daughter receives daily fresh fruit – or sometimes vegetables – but is unhappy that dried raisins are supplied as a snack on the first day of term as well as the first day after half-term. This led to Jo establishing the Raisin Awareness Campaign in 2018.