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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Paula brought her ten year old son Sam to our Family Cookery Club because a partnering school suggested 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.
Paula was encouraged to come to our Family Cookery Club with her son, Sam, by his primary school because he was struggling and his attendance was poor. Sam, like his older brother, had started school behind a lot of the other children and it wasn’t long before both had become disheartened and lost confidence. After a couple of years Sam and his older brother didn’t want to go to school.
Spaghetti Bolognese was on the menu at the first session of our Family Cookery Club – it went down a treat with Sam and Paula. They both began to really enjoy cooking together. What’s more, the meals they were making tasted great and were, according to Sam, the best tea of the week. So they started repeating the recipes at home. But something else happened – Sam’s confidence grew. School became a positive place to be. Sam’s older brother was the next to try the Family Cookery Club and his confidence also blossomed. Suddenly, the boys wanted to go to school, and their attendance shot through the roof.
One of our team popped round to see Paula recently. Paula stood on her doorstep in tears as she recounted what had happened the previous night. It had been parents’ evening and Paula had never been to one before because they were too intimidating. Through her tears, Paula told us that the teachers had spoken about how well her boys are now doing. They were engaging in lessons, taking big steps forward and were a joy to teach. Paula had cried all the way home from school.
We couldn’t change lives without the support of our partners.
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