We now have over 20 enthusiastic residents across Buckinghamshire who have been trained as volunteer cooking course tutors, enabling them to deliver cooking sessions that:
- Educate and upskill individuals on cooking basics and giving them the confidence to create healthy nutritious meals on a budget.
- Encourage individuals to produce and develop nutritious meals utilising store cupboard staples or produce they have grown themselves.
- Introduction to the Community Growing project.
- Support and enable individuals to be inspired to create and share their meals within the group to be added to the Online cookery book.
- Sign the Grow It Cook It Eat It pledge.
What’s in it for the tutors?
It’s completely free to become a Volunteer Cooking Tutor. It is also a great way to give back and support their community. The qualifications they gained as part of the training is also a great addition to CVs which can create more opportunities for jobs working with or around food.
What’s included in the training?
- A Comprehensive 2 day Train the Trainer course that covers basic knife skills, creating healthy nutritious meals, food shopping on a budgeting, reducing food waste and more!
- Level 2 Food Hygiene
- Food Allergy and Intolerance
- First Aid
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC) Training
Here are some of the tasty meals that have been made during the community cooking sessions delivered by our tutors.
