Cracking Good Food was launched in March 2010 at Chorlton’s Big Green Festival. It started as a project and has now evolved into a company limited by guarantee, run as a social enterprise
Cracking Good Food has been fortunate enough to be funded over the last 2 years by the Local Food Fund, part of the Big Lottery and The Cooperative Membership. This funding ended in January 2012. There’s now a team of 6 permanent members (2 full time), 25 cooks, 6 co-ordinators, marketing & financial experts, 2 bike couriers and over 30 volunteers. It’s become quite a large operation.
This funding ended in January, so we are busy pursuing numerous sustainable directions, as well as writing funding bids, ensuring that we can continue to deliver our cooking programmes to as many people as we can, this year.
We are particularly keen to continue working with our community groups who have seen their funding substantially decrease. If anyone is an expert with grants, is a philanthropist or knows of other sources of funding that we may not be aware of, then please do get in touch.
And please be assured that our public programme of cooking sessions at Chorlton High and foraging sessions will continue come what may.
Thank you everyone who has continued supporting us.
Healthy Cookery Sessions (to bring positive change to local community) with Kim from Islington Mill
– Social adVentures
Weekly courses for 6 weeks from 2nd February – 8th March 2012
Social adVentures is an exciting social enterprise jointly owned by service users, employees and local Salford people.
Social adVentures aims to support all local people to lead happier and healthier lives; we define happiness as enjoyment of a full and meaningful life and health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.
Social adVentures has 3 centres to support it to meet this vision, The Angel Centre, The Creative Media Centre and Garden Needs.
All centres provide a massive range of activities, courses and events all year round.
Cracking Good Food are collaborating with Social adVentures who are preparing to run a social prescribing scheme. The idea of this is to get people into activities to support individuals to improve their health and happiness. People attending would be referred from there GP, Social Prescribing Navigator or by self referral. Our healthy cookery sessions aim to bring positive change to the local community.
From 2nd February Cracking Cook Kim from Islington Mill will be running these 6 week, weekly courses with members of the local community.
For more information please contact: simone@socialadventures.org.uk and / or kim@islingtonmill.com
2 New Cooking Courses @ Buckthorn House, Nell Lane, Chorlton
Fabulous Food on a Budget!
Tuesdays at 6-8pm. Each course lasts 5 weeks (5 sessions).
Course 1: Feb 21st & 28th, 13th & 20th March and Celebration for family & friends : 28th March
Course 2: April 17th & 24th, 8th & 15th May and Celebration for family & friends : May 22nd
Free to all Southway Housing Residents!
Qualified childcare provided to parents who are cooking, but strictly only if booked through Sarah
Session 1
Saucy session with pasta: Make zingy tomato based sauces and creamy sauces, both meat & veggie versions. And steamed greens. Learn about lots of other tasty things to make with easy homemade sauces which cost a fraction of shop bought ones and taste a million times better.
Session 2
One pot wonders: Make tasty root vegetable stew with delicious herby dumplings and fabulous pies. Really cheap to make, filling and full of amazing flavours. Who said vegetables are boring?
Session 3
Get your 5 a day the spicy way!: Make easy Thai coconut curry with chicken and vegetables, with rice served the restaurant way! But for a fraction of the price of a takeaway! Gorgeous!
Session 4
Great easy fish cakes, cheap & delicious homemade burgers, smoked paprika potato wedges, served with salad: Feed the whole family for less than the cost of one Macdonalds meal! And so much tastier!
Session 5
Celebration session for family & friends: At the end of each course as a group, cook your favourite recipe from the course again for your family and friends, and celebrate your new skills! Certificates of achievement presented.
To book – places are strictly limited to 12 per course
Text SARAH on 07930 898935 or
email: sarahsish@yahoo.co.uk
Part of the Riverbank Project, based in Mersey Bank Estate at the Barlow Hall Community Centre
Stir Fry with Kim – Monday 20th February, 7-9pm.
Youth club group, teens getting ready to leave home for the first time. A stir fry session with 2 different groups.
Stir Fry with Sarah – Wednesday 22nd February 2012 at 1.30 – 3.30pm.
Stir fry session with 2 different over 50s groups
Dahl & chapatti with Harjinder – Monday 27th February 2012 at 7-9pm.
Youth club group, teens getting ready to leave home for the first time. Dahl & chappatti with 2 different groups.
Dahl & chapatti with Harjinder – Wednesday 29th February 2012 at 1.30-3.30pm
Dahl & chapatti session with 2 different over 50s groups
Please contact riverbankcommunitycafe@gmail.
Cracking Good Food at Chorlton’s Big Green Festival
Saturday 31st March 2012
Details TBC
Cracking Good Food was launched in March 2010 at Chorlton’s Big Green Festival and of course we returned in 2011. We successfully came 1st out of 13 fantastic projects in our bid for funding from Manchester City Council’s U Decide scheme to be able run another Cooks On The Hop event at Chorlton’s Big Green Festival on 31 March 2012. So this year Cracking Good Food will be returning, celebrating our 2nd birthday, thanks to everyone who voted for us!
We’ll be cooking up some tasty morsels again under the wooden gazebo.
Keep your eyes on our website as details are tbc shortly.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Hot pot with Juliet – Chorlton Good Neighbours Care Group at Wilbraham St. Ninians Church
Tuesday 3rd of April at 10.30am – 12.30pm
Juliet will be cooking Meat and Potato hotpot with veg and a surprise for pudding.
