Cookery Work

Cookery Groups

The aims of our cookery workshops are to facilitate different groups of people to share a healthy meal together once a week, learn about healthy eating and improve confidence and cookery skills. We hope to strengthen community knowledge about healthy eating and impact on healthy living practices. We also see cookery as a medium for encouraging cross-cultural understanding and facilitating the exchange of cultural experiences.

We have run several series of cookery workshops over the last few years including a men’s cookery group, international cookery exchange groups and cookery skills groups. We have had people from all ages, cultures and languages attend our sessions. Our cookery sessions run from a variety of locations, depending on each group.

The staff that run the sessions do so as a facilitator for the group’s activities i.e. they do not carry out all the cookery themselves, but help the group figure out what to do itself. The group is also involved in deciding what is cooked each week. At the end of each series of sessions the group will aim to produce a booklet documenting their experiences and recipes that they can keep.

We have recently received funding from the Glasgow City Council North Area Budget to increase the numbers of cookery sessions we run and diversify the groups we work with to include: older people; vulnerable adults; parents with children under 5 years; youth groups, school groups and a men’s group. As part of our usual programme we will also be running a few blocks of 8 week cookery workshops as well as one-off taster demonstrations.