It’s official — our debut course is booked in and recruiting! The first session will take place at St Swithun’s Church from 11am on Tuesday, 1st October! We’re very grateful to have the cooperation of Green Estate, which both owns Manor Lodge and runs the S2 Foodbank at St Swithun’s. They are offering a couple …
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Roll out the red carpet…
I’m very pleased to announce that our launch at Manor Oak House, from 2pm on Wednesday 4th September, will be attended by actor and playwright Ray Castleton! A former carpet-fitter, Ray graduated in performing arts in 2011, at the age of 63. He was a founder member and co-director of The Melting Shop Theatre Company from 2014 …
Welcome aboard, SCC…
Today has been a fruitful one! (No pun intended.) It started with a meeting at St Swithun’s in Manor; the likely venue for our first cookery course. Hopefully this will be confirmed within the next week or so, pending some electrical and safety tests. Then came an equally positive meeting at Sheffield Town Hall, with …
All systems go for 4th September…!
It’s confirmed: Bags of Taste Sheffield will launch at the beautiful Manor Oaks House, from 2pm on 4th September! (Ooh, fancy!) It’s a gorgeous country house in one of Sheffield’s most deprived wards, where we will hopefully run our first free cookery course. (More on that shortly.) The Sheffield Star will be there, as will …
On a rolling boil…
Things are really hotting up at BoT Sheffield HQ, with a high-profile launch now pencilled in for 4th September at Manor Oaks House, in Manor. Think press conference, cooking demos and a celebrity guest or two… once I’ve confirmed them! I’d thought about asking Sheffield-born Hollywood legend Sean Bean, but I’m told he owns a …
On today’s menu…
I was very excited to get a parcel from HQ yesterday, containing a menu of the meals we will be cooking and sharing with our participants this year! It’s a smorgasbord of exotic dishes from around the world including India, the Americas, Europe, Africa, Russia, East Asia and more. (Because eating on a budget doesn’t …
The power of picking up the phone…
If there’s one thing I learned from a decade in journalism, it’s the power of picking up the phone instead of sending an email. Written messages are easy to ignore, or at least de-prioritise. A phone call says “Hey, we should chat about this now!” So it’s been a morning of phone calls, in which …
And… we’re off!
Hello! Welcome to a brand new blog for a brand new start: the launch of Bags of Taste in Sheffield! We’re giving people in poverty the skills and the confidence to save around £1,400 each year in food bills, through free group cookery sessions — in a nutshell! You can learn much more about this …
Bags of Taste Sheffield 