Food Stories Podcast is back for a special mini-series for Food Waste Action Week. In this episode, we’re taking you to visit one of our Community Food Members, St Paul’s Cookery Club in Wythenshawe. The after-school club offers studcookery club podcastents the chance to learn the important life skill of cookery in a fun environment. At the end of each session, each child gets enough food to take home and feed their whole household.
Giving surplus food a purpose
Set up by two members of the non-teaching staff at the school, Angie Ridgeway (PA to the Headteacher) and Jackie Sumner (School Caretaker) as a way of engaging pupils after school, the club sources good-to-eat surplus food from FareShare Greater Manchester to use each week. The students involved not only learn new skills but they know they are helping the environment by preventing the food from going to waste.
Calling all catering community groups
Catering groups make up a small but hugely important part of our Community Food Membership. Increasingly, we receive larger amounts of catering sized packs of food, so we are looking to sign up more catering groups to our books. If you are cooking for your local community and think we can help you with food, please get in touch with us. Contact our Membership & Information Coordinator Karina on membership@emergemanchester.co.uk or give us a call on 0161 223 8200 (Option 4).
