A group of students who got their teeth into a healthy eating project have been nominated for a Young Citizen Award.

The School Council group at Dixons City Academy came up with the idea for a community project to promote healthy eating among homeless young people and those on low incomes or in supported housing.

The group received £2,000 from the Bradford East Area Committee, and worked with Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food in Bradford to complete a ten-week cookery course, before making a three-course meal for 50 young people from supported housing schemes.

They also organised a food and toiletries collection within the school, gathering 20 boxes of goods which were packaged and delivered to supported housing projects.

They were nominated by Philip Kitson, of the Bradford Youth Service, who said he was impressed by the way they came together as a team.

He said: “We started off looking at what kind of issues were important to them in their local area. They explored so many issues in so much depth. I was really pleased with how they worked.

“They were straight away on top of it. The way they worked as a team was fantastic and the way they looked at the issues.”

Student voice co-ordinator at the school Debbie Vickerman said: “The students are feeling quite modest about it. I don’t think they expected to be nominated, it wasn’t the reason they did it.

“With their dedication and enthusiasm, it really took off. They are thrilled to be nominated.”

The Bradford Council awards, run in partnership with the Telegraph & Argus, Bradford’s Children’s Trust and Young Lives Bradford, will culminate with a ceremony at St George’s Hall on Thursday, March 15.

The deadline for nominations has been extended until Friday, February 3.

Young people can be nominated by downloading an application form at bradford.gov.uk/youngcitizensawards, or by filling in the form on this page.

The awards are sponsored by Bradford Council’s B-Someone project, Bradford College, Incommunities, Yorkshire Building Society, Kirkgate Shopping and St Bede’s Catholic Grammar School.