School was back in for primary parents, when BoT kicked off cooking classes at Pipworth Community School this week. (Can you tell I used to be a journo?) Parents and others from around Manor cooked up curry and casserole for under £1 a portion, before sharing a free lunch. We had no incidents of note; …
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Hang out with the gang…
Member of the Red Pinny Brigade (pending a cooler name) gathered on Wednesday night for a curry and a pint, raising a glass to BoT volunteers past and future. The Shakespeare – home of awesome dance classes, incredible music, hilarious comedy and brilliant ales – very kindly offered BoT their function room free of charge. …
Ready for round 2…
It’s been a busy week at BoT Sheffield HQ, with our second budget cookery course due to start on Monday. We’re very grateful to Pipworth Community School in Manor, which will be hosting us for 4 weeks of free sessions. We look forward to welcoming both parents from Pipworth and participants from outside the school, …
All good things come to an end…
It was a bittersweet session at St Mary’s last Friday; great fun to cook up a storm with the students we had come to know, but a shame to wrap things up after 4 weeks. We cooked some amazing food, learned a lot (Dave included) and had some good laughs too. Feedback was very good; …
Hanging out at Hallam…
I had a great time at the Sheffield Hallam University volunteering fair this morning, telling (mostly nutrition) students about what we do. Attendants had the opportunity (if that’s the word) to play the Bags of Taste Sheffield Price is Right-like Game Show Quiz! (TM). Hooked in by this high-stakes experience (the prize was a sticker), …
Onion soup for the soul…
What a great session we had on Friday! A good number of participants, a good ratio of volunteers and more than enough grub to go around! Everyone cracked both French onion soup and Singapore noodles. It was great to see members of disability support service Enable Sheffield cooking independently – and loving it too! I …
Blast off…
Bags of Taste went off with a bang yesterday! (Almost literally. I should have been a firefighter.) We had about 35 people attend our first session at St Mary’s; an unprecedented number for a BoT course. In fact, we were so busy that I only had time to take this one photo. (If you were …
Bags of volunteers…
Bags of Taste wouldn’t be able to do the amazing work it does across London without a small army of willing volunteers. The same is true in Sheffield; fortunately, there are plenty of eager beavers signing up to deliver free cookery courses to South Yorkshire residents. I was at the Sheffield University jobs and volunteering …
On the home straight…
It’s been a while since I blogged about BoT, as I’ve been too busy making it happen (with the help of a small volunteer dream team)! Tuesday was a long old day — at the Jobcentre for 9am, wrapping up at Sheffield Futures at 7pm, with about 100,000 meetings in between! (Slight exaggeration.) To my …
We’re award-winners…
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 …
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