Healthy Cookery Sessions (to bring positive change to local community) with Kim from Islington Mill
Weekly courses for 6 weeks
18th August – 29th September 2011
3rd November – 8th December 2011
2nd February – 8th March 2012
26 April – 31st May 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 will be referred from their GP, Social Prescribing Navigator or by self referral. Our healthy cookery sessions aim to bring positive change to the local community.
From 18th August Cracking Cook Kim from Islington Mill will be running these 6 week, weekly courses with members of the local community.
We will be kicking off each 6 week course with an outdoor HOP cooking up our delicious trademark veggie stir fry, to drum up interest in the local area, a different area of Salford each time, and then following it up with a carefully structured 6 week course aimed at giving people a new perspective on the food that they eat and some genuine skills and knowledge to share with their family and friends.
We will be running 4, 6 week courses in total, covering a wide range of basic cooking skills, which can easily be adapted to use other ingredients (soups, stews, basic breads, fish cakes, homemade burgers & wedges, sauces and curries), as well as looking at food labelling and how to interpret it, and making direct comparisons in terms of taste, cost and nutritional value with the foods that the group consume currently, to help to reinforce our key message that good healthy food cooked from scratch IS affordable, IS easy to make and most importantly, IS delicious, as long as you know how.
For more information please contact: simone@socialadventures.org.uk and / or kim@islingtonmill.com
Please click on each week to read the Cracking Good Food Blogs from some of the sessions
