Community Cooking

Kingston Voluntary Action's Good Food Group has been working with Kingston's Public Health team to create a new Community Cooking and Wellbeing Programme.

A variety of different community groups will be running 8-10 week long cooking courses where you can learn to cook tasty and nutritious meals.

The organisations that will be running community cooking courses are:

• Balance will be running a course for adults with learning difficulties

• Kingston URC (Eden Street, Kingston) will be running an 8-week 'Simply Healthy Cooking' course, suitable for people who are diabetic or pre-diabetic, or those who want to increase their confidence in cooking simple, low fat, nutritious and low cost meals.   The next course will take place in October 2023. For more details and to register interest, please email [email protected]

• Kingston Young Carers will be running courses for young carers.

• Korean Culture and Arts Centre will be running a course for young people to make quick healthy meals

• Voices of Hope will be running a 'Cook and Dine' course for women on Mondays.

• Migrant Advocacy – will be running sessions at the Kingsnympton Community Centre with ideas for nutritious meals and gaining confidence in using available ingredients eg from the Community Fridge.

• Connect North Korea – an opportunity for community members to connect with their culture, with their family members and learn more about a nutritionally balanced lifestyle. Sharing health messages alongside a community learning and healing space.

• TAG – Cooking and life skills for young people with wide-ranging disabilities

• Au Law Organic Farm – farm to table courses

• Kingston Eco-Op – Cooking skills, understanding healthy eating, budgeting and re-cycling for adults with learning disabilities, mental health concerns and /or neurodiversity

• Moving on Together – supporting service users to create healthy meals and enhance their life skills. Supporting people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, people with complex issues including drug and alcohol issues, domestic violence, mental and physical health issues. Thursday afternoons. Please contact [email protected]

• Community Brain – Healthy cooking on a budget, batch cooking and cooking with available ingredients from the Community Fridge in Surbiton and healthy cooking and eating for diabetes at Baking Ideas in Tolworth.

• Oxygen – Healthy cooking sessions for young people

• Nanoom – healthy cooking from scratch, nutrition and healthy lifestyles for Korean women at risk of isolation. Please contact [email protected]

• Refugee Action Kingston cooking sessions for their clients

To find out more, or if you are interested in enrolling on a course, please contact the organisations directly.