- Angeline Westley
- Elaine Gardner
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Angeline Westley
Managing Director
Angeline Westley has a background in financial services and sales, along with fitness, which she has taught from 1992 to current day.
She holds the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development’s Certificate in Training Practice, along with fitness, anatomy & physiology and nutrition qualifications. |
In developing any training programme, be it knowledge based or physical, she has always believed that simple, fun and active delivery is the best way to ensure the learning is truly memorable.
In using a happy face to make a food group pie chart appealing to children, she believes they take ownership of what it represents.
She is passionate about children’s well-being and believes that if children are given the knowledge and ability to make their own decisions in life, with guidance and a clear reason, they will do a great job of making them.
These basic beliefs were the drivers in the creation, development, style and content of the NutriSkill® resources.
As consumers, we all expect to be dealt with in a professional way and we value good quality. Angeline is committed to ensuring that Tailored Learning Resources offer this on every occasion and operate in an ethical manner. |
Elaine Gardner
Nutrition Director
BSc, RD, Cert Ed, MBDA, FRSPH
Elaine Gardner is an independent dietitian with over 25 years experience in the field of nutrition, who works actively in the field of health promotion and public health
She is a registered dietitian with experience of working in schools, Children Centres and colleges from an educational aspect as well as the nutrition content and the actual provision of food. She is a qualified lecturer and trainer and has undertaken research for The School Food Trust. |
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As an active member of the British Dietetic Association, she is up to date with current developments in nutrition and health and has recently supplemented her degree qualification by completing a Diploma in Advanced Dietetic Practice.
Author of published scientific papers as well as three cookery books, she has also contributed a chapter to the standard dietetic textbook that is used nationally by all dietitians.
She believes that translating scientific evidence into practical and realistic messages is paramount to improving health. Her love of food and the desire to obtain the optimum health benefits from it, has led her to develop practical ideas based on scientific principles to help cope with modern life.
As Nutrition Director of Tailored Learning Resources, Elaine has ensured that the development of the NutriSkill resources is in line with key nutrition principles and with Government initiatives designed to promote healthy eating and reduce obesity levels.
She is a lead part of the consultative management team.
Being passionate about food from all corners of the globe, she loves to travel widely with her family, exploring new tastes and foods as she goes. Her husband says that she can ‘remember every meal she has ever ordered’ and ‘what everyone else ate as well!’ |
Our Mission
Our mission is to play a major role in reducing the childhood obesity crisis; by empowering children to make their own healthy food choices.
Our Vision
Our vision is for NutriSkill® to be available in every school and early years setting; giving all children the opportunity to learn this crucial skill in such a fun and memorable way
Our Values
• We believe staff should be treated in a way which makes them feel valued; with fair treatment, flexible hours, trust, autonomy, recognition and progression.
• Great care is taken when selecting suppliers, enabling us provide first class products and services for our customers. We ensure business is done with them in a loyal, honest and professional manner.
• Our approach to the development of our services and products is very consultative, seeking the views and needs of our customers to ensure we supply what they want at a price they can afford. We are committed to providing the highest quality of products and services and dealing with our customers in a prompt and reliable way.
• We feel strongly about operating an ethical business which contributes to the wellbeing of society.
• We operate as a social enterprise, in that foods, images, studio time, intellect and overheads are not factored into our pricing. This is based on the cost of manufacture only.
• We have established The NutriSkill Foundation to provide information and education about healthy living services across the country.
• We launched our community partnerships programme to enable private businesses to engage more closely with local schools and communities; to support our efforts to improve the health of the nation.
Our History
Managing Director Angeline Westley left the business world to have her daughter in November 2001, and decided not to go back to full time work immediately.
Having also taught fitness for around 10 years, she decided to expand this business and took further qualifications to enable her to add dietary advice to her services. Drawing a pie chart reflecting her clients' diet to compare with the government model, she helped them to easily understand the changes required to improve their health, weight and well-being.
She also started to explain healthy eating and balanced diets to her young daughter in very basic terms and realised that it was easy for her to grasp the concept and learn the information really quickly.
Then the nightly dreams started; with visions of children running around dressed as food, jumping into the correct food group categories on a giant pie chart and having great fun learning about healthy eating.
Unable to get the thoughts from her head, she developed a healthy eating workshop for schools and after struggling to find suitable teaching aids to support it, she had her own prototypes made.
In the autumn term of 2006 meetings with the council and local schools were arranged. Possible reasons why insufficient progress has been made to create sustainable change in children's eating habits to have a real impact became clear. Central support staff and specialist teachers are too few, and most teachers felt they lacked sufficient knowledge and confidence to enable them to offer much creativity, depth or progression to teaching the subject, assessing the base line and measuring progress was extremely difficult and the lack of suitable support materials or time to teach yet another lesson were further barriers.
The solution became clear - to put the workshop and materials in a box with full guidance and support - allowing anyone to pick it up and use it immediately, regardless of prior knowledge.
Then follow-on resources would progress from this starting point to enable the subject to grow as the children make their way up through the school. Much research was done using reports on Health, Obesity, Food Technology, Teaching, The National Diet & Nutrition Survey and much more.
Various prototypes were tested with children and consultations took place with the council and schools to ensure the product going to market would encompass everything required by teachers to make it as effective as possible. The company was incorporated and registered dietitian Elaine Gardner joined the management team to ensure accuracy of content. Meetings took place with The National Healthy Schools Programme and The School Food Trust, and our pilots ran in the autumn term of 2007 to almost 500 children, producing fantastic results which exceeded even our own expectations. Then finally, we launched NutriSkill officially at the NEC Education Show in March 2008.
Our Partnerships
We encourage businesses and other organisations to partner with local schools for the benefit of children, to provide them with valuable NutriSkill resources via our 'Community Partnership Programme'.
Tailored Learning Resources Limited are completely independant and have no funding from such partners.
Their information is given in the community partnerships area only as thanks for their support, and will not appear on resources supplied to schools, or any of our promotional literature.
We have carefully chosen reliable sources of information for our links page, to ensure accurate, consistent messages throughout our site, as in our products.
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