HILS (Health and Living Independent Support) offers meals on wheels support and health tips

HILS deliver meals on wheels, 365 days a year. Every visit includes delivery of a hot meal and dessert into your home, along with a caring wellbeing check.

Key information:

• Hot meals delivered seven days a week, 365 days a year

• Wide range of choice to suite all diets and taste, including our texture modified rang of meals for those with swallowing difficulties

• Suitable for short- or long-term help (such as when you are coming out of hospital, recovering from an illness, or as a one-off)

• Daily wellbeing checks carried out on delivery of their hot meal

• No contract, clients can have meals delivered from one to seven days a week, and stop and restart the service whenever they wish

Health & Independent Living Support (HILS) is the largest not-for-profit meals on wheels service in the UK. Established in Hertfordshire in 2007 as a charitable social enterprise, HILS helps people to stay happy, healthy, and independent at home for as long as they wish.

We are now delivering into some areas of Southampton. Please call us to find out if we cover your area.

To find out if we deliver in your area please call us on 01962 600468 or email hampshire@hils-uk.org

We are delighted to introduce our new Breakfast Packs, designed to complement our existing hot meal service, the breakfast packs offer a simple and convenient way for clients to enjoy a nutritious start to the day and maintain regular eating habits.

At HILS Meals on Wheels, we understand that maintaining regular meals throughout the day is essential for health, wellbeing, and independence. Clients can choose from a variety of breakfast options, including cereals and porridge with milk, as well as snacks such as croissants, muffins and yoghurts. A selection of drinks is also available, including apple juice, milkshakes and cappuccino sachets.

Choose from a selection of cereals with milk, a snack and a drink for only £3.70!

Breakfast packs are delivered alongside our clients hot meal and popped in the fridge to enjoy the next morning

Benefits of Our Breakfast Packs

✅ Complements existing care arrangements
The service provides a practical solution for those receiving our service who may be waiting for a carer to visit and prepare breakfast. Ensuring they have access to food in the morning, especially for medication needs.

✅ Convenience
Everything needed for breakfast is delivered alongside our hot meals and popped in the fridge to enjoy the next morning.

✅ Supports Nutritional Needs
A nutritious breakfast can help clients to maintain energy levels, support overall health, and encourage healthy eating habits.

✅ Promotes Independence
Easy-to-prepare breakfast items allow clients to enjoy a morning meal at a time that suits them.

✅ Complements Our Existing Service
Breakfast Packs work alongside our Meals on Wheels deliveries, helping to provide additional meal support throughout the day.

We are excited to offer this new service and hope it will bring added convenience, comfort, and nutritional support to those receiving meals on wheels.

If you would like to find out more about our Breakfast Packs or discuss whether they may be suitable for your client or patient, please contact our team on 0330 2000 103 , email hampshire@hils-uk.org or visit our website www.hils-uk.org.

If this is of interest, you can sign up using the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/8zsiZTYw4d or alternatively you can email fiona.mackintosh@hils-uk.org .

HILS also offer team talk and taster sessions, if you are interested in Fiona popping along to your next team meeting then please express your interest here.

If you have attended a session before then please feel free to pass this email on to your colleagues or anyone in community who may benefit from service and would like to find out more.

For more information about HILS, click here: Health & Independent Living Support (HILS)

HILS (Health and Living Independent Support) offers meals on wheels support and health tips

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