Drinking fewer fizzy drinks can significantly cut down your sugar intake. This is a great way to improve your health.
You can save up to £700 a year if you stop drinking 1 500ml bottle of branded soft drink, per day, for a year (based on figures from a leading supermarket as of January 2025).
We challenge you to reduce or give up fizzy drinks for the whole of February. This can help you on your way to drinking less sugary drinks the rest of the year.
How your school, nursery of children and family centre can take part
Complete our form to:
- get Fizz Free February resources to help you promote the challenge
- have an assembly or workshop delivered by our Public Health team (if you're a secondary school)
Register for Fizz Free February
We'll ask you by mid-March to report how many people completed the challenge.
If you report the most people completing the challenge in your setting (for example, out of all secondary schools) within Southwark, you will go into the draw for one of 3 £125 Decathlon vouchers!
Great reasons to go Fizz Free
Fizzy drinks can negatively impact your concentration, even making you more restless.
Your teeth will be healthier. More 5 to 9-year-old children are hospitalised due to tooth decay than for any other reason.
5 facts about sugar and fizzy drinks
- A can of original taste Coca-Cola contains 34.98g of sugar.
- If a child, aged between 7 and 10 has one can in a day, they are consuming 150% of their recommended daily sugar intake
- Every day in the UK there are about 180 operations to remove children’s teeth due to tooth decay
- By the age of 10, the average child has consumed 18 years’ worth of sugar
- Some fizzy drink products use huge amounts of water. This is bad for the environment and can limit access to water for communities near factories in poorer countries. The sugar beet used to make a half-litre bottle of cola can use 170 to 310 litres of water. (Figures from Sustain)