WINSFORD MP Antoinette Sandbach is encouraging local school breakfast clubs to enter the Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards for the chance to win £2,000.

Breakfast clubs are designed to help children from all backgrounds start the school day focused and ready to learn. The Awards will celebrate the importance of breakfast clubs and the role played by teachers, parents and children across the UK, in making breakfast clubs great.

Antoinette said: “It’s great to see the Kellogg’s Breakfast Awards returning this year. It helps highlight the fantastic work by schools, charities and individuals from right across the country to ensure children can start the day focused and ready to learn.

“I encourage all the schools with breakfast clubs in Eddisbury to apply so they have the chance to win £1,500 to help run their club and keep up their brilliant work.”

Entries will be judged by an expert panel, with children and teachers from each of the winning clubs invited to the awards ceremony at Parliament in November.

Lindsay Graham, school food and health advisor and judge at this year’s awards, said: “Breakfast clubs contribute considerable amounts to children’s education. They offer a great start to the school day with a filling breakfast, helping to improve attendance, confidence, concentration and achievement, all being vital components of attainment.”

There are eight award categories which are: Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle, Long Life and Sustainability, Extra Learning, Breakfast Club Hero and the Best Breakfast Club in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Winning entries will be given a prize of £1,500 and one school will be selected as grand winner to receive £2,000.

Schools can apply through the awards website BreakfastClubAwards.co.uk