Want to be part of a prestigious, national award-winning scheme? Well, you’re in the right place! Bags of Taste founder Alicia Weston BEM was handed the community partner of the year prize at the Food and Drink Federation Awards this week. It recognises all the innovation and hard work that has gone into establishing and …
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Backing of the bank…
I’m very pleased to announce that Yorkshire Bank have got right behind BoT, promising to send two volunteers per day of our first Sheffield course! We’re close to being ready for 4 October, with volunteers signing up left and right. We just need to fill this course with students and the great budget cookery campaign …
Couldn’t find a rooftop…
Well I couldn’t find a rooftop that I could safely access to shout this, so I thought I’d just use the blog: we have a new venue! Yes, the wonderful people at St Mary’s, on Bramall Lane, have invited us to run our first course of cookery sessions at their incredible conference centre. What’s more, …
Which first: good news or bad…
There’s been bad news and good at BoT Sheffield this week. The bad? The course we had booked in and ready to rock at Manor from 1 October is off. It turns out we were double booked and, while the other book-ee was keen to compromise, the venue wasn’t… so that was that! Picture is …
BoT in the spotlight…
Bags of Taste is making big waves, earning a finalist’s nomination for the prestigious national Food and Drink Federation Awards 2019! The nonprofit has been nominated in the Community Partner category; winners will be announced on 19 September. Around 500 people will attend the annual ceremony (including BoT founder Alicia Weston BEM), celebrating excellence in …
(Sort of) cooking on gas…
Bags of Taste is underway in Sheffield… officially! We had a brilliant launch event at Manor Oaks House yesterday, with representatives from The Star and Sheffield Live on hand to record event. Dave also went on BBC Radio Sheffield, chatting to DJ Howie about the new scheme. To catch up, read the press release below. …
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