The Co-operative Food store, which comes complete with packaging and a community notice board, will teach youngsters about shopping and eating healthily.
The Bournemouth learning village provides interactive scenarios in a vast indoor village complete with road, beach, train and street scene. There are also emergency scenarios including escaping a house fire and controlling the brakes on a train.
Visitors are encouraged to ‘discuss, decide and do’ in realistic scenarios designed to build confidence and develop skills to enjoy active, fulfilled and safer lives.
Gemma Lacey, Southern Co-op’s director for sustainability and communications, said: “We were absolutely blown away by the SafeWise centre and only too happy to fund and fit one of our stores inside.
“The centre itself is vast and we are really pleased to be able to help the charity continue to provide skills for life for people of all ages including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.”