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1-day course for Dorset community and voluntary groups to support staff and volunteers to plan and safely deliver your own cooking sessionAbout this Event
Available to all Dorset community, health, social and youth based organisations!
We will look at the following areas:
- Identifying the needs and understanding barriers for your community
- Using different session formats and choosing the right recipe
- Planning effective and safe sessions, including paperwork and risk
- Practical cooking, facilities and equipment
- Evaluation and funding
"The day was really motivating and now I can't wait to get started. The day was well-planned and interesting. I really enjoyed making our own lunch and it gave us a chance to network and learn from other organisations". L, Blandford
We believe that almost any group can put on some kind of cooking session and benefit your local community.
Benefits for individuals:
- save money
- reducing food waste
- increase someone's self confidence
- improve nutrition
- grow social networks
- improve wellbeing
- improved sense of resilience, including financial resilience
- longer term impacts on household income and physical health
Benefits of cooking sessions to your group:
- Make more food more accessible
- They can be run in conjunction with other activities, to support existing project beneficiaries
- Encourage new people to come forward who need your support
- Upskilling your beneficiaries you are helping improve their worlds and your communities in so many ways
- Develop new social groups
- Attract more volunteers
- Improve your local reputation
- There are many different types of cooking sessions, skills based, using food waste, community action/support or lunch clubs etc. etc.
- They are a great way of crossing generations, bringing together communities and cultures.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Dorchester Baptist Church, 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Tickets
GBP 0.00