Healthy Start
Healthy Start is a government funded, national scheme that provides vouchers every week to spend on milk, plain fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables, and infant formula milk. It also provides vouchers for free vitamins. The vouchers can be worth over £900 per child if they are claimed for the entire qualifying period.
The qualifying criteria for Healthy Start are as follows:
A person must be at least 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under four years old and they or their family get:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Child Tax Credit with a family income of £16,190 or less per year
- Pension Credit; or
- Universal Credit with no earned income or total earned income of £408 or less per month for the family. (To find this refer to your Universal Credit award notice in the section “your take home pay for this month”.)
A person also qualifies if they are under 18 and pregnant, even if they don’t get any of the above benefits.
To access the scheme individuals need to fill out a physical form and send it to the following address:
Healthy Start Issuing Unit
FREEPOST RRTR-STAE-JKCR
PO Box 1067
Warrington
WA55 1EG
Hard copies of the form can be printed from an online PDF or hard copies can be ordered free of charge for organisations to distribute. You can download and print a form from the Healthy Start website
- To order hard copies of the forms online:
Open the web page www.orderline.dh.gov.uk (you can also do this using any of the ‘order’ buttons on this page) - Click on the registration page link and create an account if you do not already have an Orderline account. To register, you will need an email address and the postal address where the copies are to be sent to. You will be sent a confirmation email, and within 24 hours a password will be sent to you via email.
- Log in by entering your customer number and password in the box at the top right-hand corner of the page.
- Using the ‘Publication search’ box on the right-hand side of the page, enter ‘healthy start’ (with search option ‘Advanced’) in the ‘Keyword’ box and click ‘Go’.
- All of the resources available in hard copy will be listed. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete your order.
To order hard copies by telephone:
Call 0300 123 1002, quoting the title and reference number (eg HS01/HS02) of the item you require.
In Cornwall, vitamins are available at the following pharmacies:
Pharmacy |
Address |
Town |
Postcode |
Opening times |
Phone Number |
Day Lewis Pharmacy | 42 Fore Street | St Just in Penwith | TR19 7LJ |
Mon - Fri 9:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00 |
01736 788440 |
Day Lewis Pharmacy | 21 Trelowarren Street | Camborne | TR14 8AD |
Mon - Fri 9:00 - 17:30 |
01209 714577 |
Boots Pharmacy | 10 Commercial Street | Camborne | TR14 8JY | Mon - Fri 8:30 - 18:15 Sat 8:30 - 17:30 |
01209 713149 |
Boots Pharmacy | 34 Fore Street | Bodmin | PL31 2HL | Mon - Sat 9:00 - 17:30 | 01208 72836 |
Tesco Pharmacy | Station Road, Carn Brea Industrial Estate | Redruth | TR15 3QJ | Mon 8:00 - 22:30 Tues - Fri 6:30 - 22:30 Sat 6:30 - 22:00 Sun 10:00 - 16:00 |
01172917236 |
Day Lewis Pharmacy | 16 Chapel Street | Redruth | TR15 3DB | Mon - Fri 8:45 - 17:45 Sat 9:00 - 12:00 |
01209 211056 |
Boots Pharmacy | 25 Market Square | Camelford | PL32 9PD | Mon - Fri 9:00 - 18:00 Sat 9:00 - 17:30 |
01840 212233 |
Boots Pharmacy | 29 Fore Street | St Austell | PL25 5EP | Mon - Sat 8:45 - 17:30 Sun 10:00 - 16:00 |
01726 72112 |
Boots Pharmacy |
3 Alverton Street |
Penzance | TR18 2QW | Mon-Sat 9:00-17:30 | 01736 362130 |
Boots Pharmacy | 44-46 Fore Street, Copperhouse | Hayle | TR27 4DY | Mon-Fri 8:30-18:00 Sat 9:00-17:30 | 01736 752189 |
Boots Pharmacy | 28 Brooad Street | Launceston | PL15 8AE | Mon-Fri 8:45-17:30 Sat 8:45-17:00 | 01566 772085 |
Boots Pharmacy | 3 Fore Street | Mevagissey | PL26 8JQ | Mon - Fri 9:00 - 18:00 Sat 9:00 - 17:00 Sun 10:00 - 16:00 |
01726 842349 |
Boots Pharmacy | Union Square | St Columb Major | TR9 6AP | Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00 | 01637 880251 |
Boots Pharmacy | 94 Pydar Street | Truro | TR1 2BD | Mon-Sat 8:30-17:30 Sun 10:30-16:30 | 01872 272810 |
Boots Pharmacy | 21-22 Baytree Hill | Liskeard | PL14 4BG | Mon, Weds - Fri 8:30 - 18:00 Tues 9:00 - 18:00 Sat 8:30 - 17:30 Sun 10:00 - 16:00 |
01579 343183 |
Boots Pharmacy | Bassett Road, Illogan | Redruth | TR16 4SS | Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00 Sat 9:00-13:00 | 01209 843856 |
Boots Pharmacy | 2-3 Beach Road | Perranporth | TR6 0JL | Mon-Fri 8:30-18:15 Sat 9:00-17:30 | 01872 573196 |
Boots Pharmacy | 8-10 Market Street | Padstow | PL28 8AL | Mon - Fri 9:00 - 18:00 Sat 9:00 - 17:00 Sun 10:00 - 16:00 |
01841 532327 |
Day Lewis Pharmacy | Narrowcliff Surgery, Narrowcliff | Newquay | TR7 2PG | Mon-Fri 8:30-18:00 | 01637 872589 |
Millbrook Pharmacy | The old blacksmiths shop, The Parade, millbrook | Torpoint | PL10 1AX | Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00 sat 9:00-13:00 | 01752 822391 |
Boots Pharmacy | 16 Fore Street | Torpoint | PL11 2AD | Mon-Sat 9:00-18:00 | 01752 812591 |
Boots Pharmacy | 4 Fern Lea Villas | St Blazey | PL24 2JG | Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00 Sat 9:00-13:00 | 01726 815498 |
Boots Pharmacy | 16-18 fore street | fowey | PL23 1AQ | Mon-Sat 9:00-17:30 | 01726 833332 |
Dudley Taylor Pharmacy | 26 Belle Vue | Bude | EX23 8JS | Mon-Fri 9:00-17:30 Sat 9:00-17:00 | 01288 352026 |
Boots Pharmacy | 24 Fore Street | Saltash | PL12 6JW | Mon-Fri 8:30-17:30 Sat 9:000-17:00 | 01752 847707 |
Boots Pharmacy | 40 Meneage Street | Helston | TR13 8QY | Mon-Sat 9:00-17:30 | 01326 572030 |
Boots Pharmacy | 3 High Street | St Ives | TR26 1RS | Mon-Sat 9:00-17:30 Sun 10:30-16:30 | 01736 795072 |
Boots Pharmacy | 47-49 Market Street | Falmouth | TR11 3AB | Mon-Sat 9:00-17:30 Sun 10-:30-16:30 | 01326 312373 |
Isles of Scilly Pharmacy | The Health Centre, King Edward Lane, St Marys | Isles of Scilly | TR21 0HE | Mon-Fri 9:00-13:00, 14:00-17:30 Sat 9:30-12:00 | 01720 422021 |
Boots Pharmacy | 1-6 Coach House Arcade, Fore Street | Looe | PL13 1DT | Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00 Sat 9:00-17:30 | 01503 262980 |