Episode Notes for the Share Your Secrets Podcast Season 3, including useful links to resources.
Stronger together
Collaboration is key to our nationwide fight against food poverty
Since 2014, we have developed partnerships with over 100 food banks, charities and social enterprises across the UK.
Our support extends to a variety of local and national partners, all of whom are delivering vitally important work in their communities.
By providing our Charity Partners with access to a range of free cookery workshops, learning programmes and training we are able to extend our support to people living in food poverty across the UK by:
We continue to build our network of Partner Charities across the UK as we aim to establish Bounceback teams in at least 20 locations by 2024.
'Carers we support have loved Bounceback's cookery workshops and learning programmes over the years which they've delivered in a variety of community venues and multi-faith spaces.'
'Working on Secret Dishes From Around the World 3 enabled us to commission an artist from Tanzania to produce original artwork for the cookbook. Food justice is at the heart of what we stand for so - this was a fantastic, visionary project to get involved in.'
'We can provide our beneficiaries with free access to Bounceback's Cooking & Nutrition Portal and hope to work closely with them in future as their team in Leeds develops. We also hosted their Book Tour event in 2021!'
'Bounceback's Cooking & Nutrition Portal is perfect for our stroke survivors to use and easy to navigate with everything they need all in one place.'
'We've worked in partnership with Bounceback's Manchester team since 2015, receiving donated items from their food bank drives and more recently their Reverse Advent Campaign. Thanks for your continued support!'
On our Secret Dishes From Around the World cookalongs, participants learn how to cook two exciting recipes from a specific country. Our chef provides step-by-step instructions which makes the recipes easy to follow and gives fantastic results!
Our Partner Charities can refer people for free places on the cookalongs thanks to our ‘buy one, give one’ ticketing model. This means that every ticket bought by a member of the public generates a free ticket for someone referred by our Partner Charities. One ticket covers an entire household and cooking in groups is welcomed!
For those who would like to take part but may struggle with ingredient costs, we can provide micro-grants to those who require support via our Community Support Fund.
By bringing together different people in the community, these cookalongs have a friendly and accessible atmosphere. Please contact us to try out a cookalong and see if it suits your organisation!
In some locations, we can also deliver Covid-compliant, bespoke cookery workshops and programmes to meet the requirements of your service users/beneficiaries.
If there are specific requirements that your beneficiaries have, we can modify our sessions to make them as safe and enjoyable as possible.
We can also provide free access to lifelong learning resources through our online Cooking & Nutrition Portal as we believe that food education should be accessible to everyone.
Optimised to work across all devices, our 24/7, on-demand Cooking & Nutrition Portal has a selection of over 250 recipes from more than 25 countries, alongside cooking tips from our head chef to help users get confident in the kitchen.
Recipes can be added to our interactive meal planner to support users to organise their weekly meals. Our Portal is also packed full of nutrition advice, video demonstrations, budgeting tips and guidance on growing your own fruits, vegetables and herbs.
As part of our proactive Covid-19 response, we pledged to allocate 5 million free memberships to Partner Charities in the UK and around the world. We also provide our Partner Charities with the ability to distribute free licenses as part of our sustainable approach to tackling the long term challenges of food poverty.
We run regular information sessions via Zoom where you can find out more about providing your beneficiaries with access to our Portal. Please click here to sign up via our Eventbrite page.
A range of online cookery & nutrition resources, developed by our central teams in Manchester & London, will soon be made available to our national Partner Charity network.
Sign up to one of our quarterly information sessions via Zoom to find out more about how we can support the work of your VCSE organisation locally. Details of upcoming information sessions are listed on our Eventbrite page.
Download our brochure of Cookery Workshops & Learning Programmes.
Help our Community Cookery School team provide 5,000 additional meals and cookery classes in warm hubs this winter!
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