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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 who 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.

During 2008 we 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. 
At the present time, we are running cookery classes for youth groups, men's groups, people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, young women and refugees and asylum seekers.

If you are interested in finding out more about joining a cookery class, becoming a sessional chef, volunteering to assist at classes, or if you are an organisation or group who is interested in requesting cookery classes, please contact Jane on 0141 558 2500 or email volunteer@ngcfi.org

 
 
 

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Contact Details: North Glasgow Community Food Initiative
  71 Lenzie Terrace, Springburn
Glasgow G21 3TN
Tel 0141 558 2500  Fax 0141 558 2600
email: ngcfi@yahoo.co.uk
Scottish Charity No.SC036842   Company Regirtered in Scotland No.290958
Buses to NGCFI:First Bus 45 from Central Station, 85 or 88 from Glasgow Buchanan Street Bus Station, all go close to the office.  Ask to get off at Balgrayhill Community Centre.
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