Healthy Alice Nash, 11, was among the winners at Wiltshire Council’s first eat Out Eat Well Awards.

The awards are designed to highlight restaurants, cafes and canteens that promote health eating options.

Alice is a healthy eating ambassador at St Mary’s Primary School in Chippenham. She runs a healthy tuck shop there and is also behind a ‘healthy kids’ meal’ addition to the menu at Revolutions.

Her award was presented by Wiltshire councillor Keith Humphries, portfolio holder for public health, who said: “What Alice is doing is really special.

“Obesity is a problem in our society these days, particularly childhood obesity. There are 3,690 obese children aged between four and 11 in Wiltshire.”

Alice said: “It’s about when people are hungry for a snack, instead of getting the nearest chocolate bar, going for something like a piece of fruit.”

Patrick Hill, one of the chefs at winner Revolutions in Chippenham, said: “We haven’t taken anything off our menu, we’ve just added healthier options like brown rice and pasta. It’s surprising how many people are opting for it, especially at this cold time of year.”

They make their meals from scratch, as do fellow winners Malmesbury Garden Centre. Manager Mary Cundick said: “When things are homemade you know your ingredients, so salt and sugar content are lower.

“We get a lot of cyclists so they like slow release energy food.”

Peter Vaughan of winner Vaughan’s Kitchen, Devizes, said: “When I started out in Wiltshire 15 years ago I was laughed at by my chef friends, because Wiltshire was seen as a bit backwards; a lot has changed since then.

“The grains grown in this county are of superb quality and it produces some of the best crops in the South West. There are Michelin starred chefs in the North buying pork from Wiltshire. And Marco Pierre White, the greatest chef, has chosen to make his home here.”