Cooking in the community

Eating a balanced diet is challenging for most people and even more so if you are on a tight budget, have little knowledge of nutritional information or lack cooking skills. Whether participants want to gain or improve their cooking skills, adopt a healthier diet or join a course for pleasure or social reasons, we can offer a training solution that demonstrates that cooking, whether using fresh, store-cupboard or leftover ingredients, can be easy, delicious and inexpensive.

We have worked with a vast cross-section of communities. When developing courses with hard-to-reach communities, where appropriate we take into account the prevalence of highly processed foods, poor eating habits, obesity and diet-related illnesses, and provide cooking skills courses aimed at reducing inequalities in health.

Through hands-on courses, demonstrations and discussion, we teach the importance of following a healthy diet and provide the necessary skills to make more informed choices about food. When working with groups from different cultural backgrounds, generational needs and levels of competence, we adapt courses accordingly in order to make learning inclusive, relevant and easily applicable.