Family Cookery
Equipping families to make long lasting changes in their diets by teaching foundational cooking skills and nutrition is proven to help develop resilience against food poverty, poor diet and poor health outcomes.
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Equipping families to make long lasting changes in their diets by teaching foundational cooking skills and nutrition is proven to help develop resilience against food poverty, poor diet and poor health outcomes.
1 in 2 low income families in the UK skip meals and go hungry because they cannot afford or access food. Nearly 70% of very low income families have had to cut out fresh food from their food shop due to the cost of living crisis.
Children from deprived areas are twice as likely to be obese by age 11 compared to their peers in affluent areas. They also face higher risks of chronic conditions like asthma and type 2 diabetes.
Food insecurity and poor diet are directly linked to increased rates of poor mental health amongst children, developmental delays and lower educational attainment. Children growing up in the most deprived areas of Leeds will die, on average, 12 years younger than their wealthier peers.
Our Family Cookery Clubs transform families’ diets and help overcome poor nutrition by giving the tools to confidently cook healthy and economical meals from scratch at home while inspiring the whole family to understand the basics of a healthy diet.
We provide all the necessary ingredients and equipment, so that every family leaves with a whole meal to eat together at home. We regularly include fun and healthy snacks for children to make as well.
Our sessions include an engaging 6 week nutritional education programme, based around the NHS Eatwell guide, which incorporates food budgeting and meal planning.
100% of the families we have worked with in the last 3 years said they were already repeating our recipes at home, or planned to in future.
Me and my family have a healthier diet as a result of Family Cookery Club, because we’ve learnt to make a lot of healthy meals we wouldn’t have had before.
KiranI now have a folder of all the recipes at home. We use it every night. This has changed what we eat massively.
AndrewWe now all get involved when it comes to cooking at home. The kids are becoming amazing little chefs.
EmmanuelWhen Amber told us there was no food in the house, we knew that coming along to our Family Cookery Club was more learning to cook—it was a lifeline.
Read how our Family Cookery Club helped one mum feed her family, and find new joy in family life.
Paula brought her ten year old son Sam to our Family Cookery Club because school thought it would help boost his low attendance. As the weeks went by Sam found a true love of cooking – particularly spaghetti Bolognese. His confidence soared, and the family’s relationship with school and each other truly began to flourish.
Find out more about the amazing things spag bol can do!
