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 …
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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. …
Blast off for BoT Sheffield…
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 …
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 …
Bags of Taste Sheffield 