Recipe for life volunteers
Our Recipe for life project supports families to gain the knowledge, confidence and skills to have a healthy diet and make healthy lifestyle choices.
The project focuses on;
- Menu planning, budgeting and food shopping
- Practical cooking skills
- Using leftovers and reducing waste
- Cooking with children
- Supporting breastfeeding and weaning
- Maintaining a healthy diet and weight
Our recipe for life volunteers:
- Deliver one-to-one cooking sessions to families in their own homes
- Deliver small group cooking sessions with families
- Help to create a library of recipes in written, easy-read, and video formats
- Emphasise the important of a healthy diet to give children the best start in life
- Support and encourage parents to improve their knowledge, skills and confidence around food and cooking
- Encourage parents to include children in cooking activities
- Help to deliver food and kitchen supplies to families who need them
- Go through our Volunteer Preparation training course prior to undertaking specialist training
We offer our recipe for life volunteers:
- Excellent preparation for the role through Confidence to Cook, Nutrition, and Food Hygiene training
- Regular and frequent support and supervision meetings, and ongoing help and advice, from a dedicated Volunteer Coordinator
- Ongoing training and personal development opportunities
- The opportunity to make new friends and build social networks
- Involvement in a vital local service which is part of a national and global network
If you’re passionate about food and cooking and love to share your passion with other people, then you’re just the kind of person who would make a great Recipe for Life volunteer