A charity that helps homeless people get back on their feet held an event to teach them about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

St Mungo’s Broadway is one of a number of organisations to sign up to the Haringey Obesity Alliance, a group which works together to combat the rise of obesity in the borough.

The charity, which supports more than 200 people across the borough, invited the council and the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation to its hostel on Vartry Road.

Exhibitions included the council’s own Fakeaway project, which teaches people to make healthier versions of their favourite takeaways.

Damien McKenna of St Mungo’s Broadway, who organised the fair, said: “Some of our residents live daily with quite poor health. Some have diabetes and, with experiences of unstable housing, it’s more difficult to learn how to cook healthy meals.

“That’s something we are focusing on more not only at Vartry Road but across our Haringey projects as this very much ties in with the council’s own promotion of healthy foods.”

St Mungo’s has pledged to educate their clients in Haringey about eating healthily on a budget and how to develop healthy recipes.

Haringey cllr Peter Morton, the chair of the Haringey Obesity Alliance said: “At the heart of our Healthy Haringey campaign is the recognition that health inequalities, based on an individual’s characteristics or circumstances are unfair and must be addressed.

“The close relationship between St Mungo’s Broadway, the council and Haringey’s Health and Wellbeing Board is doing just that, improving the health of homeless people in Haringey by seeking to educate them about the dangers of an imbalanced diet and to providing them with the practical skills and knowledge necessary to live more healthily.”