Activity styled cooking workshops that can be offered at day centre venues, community sites with appropriate kitchen facilities or another suitable site. The programmes are built to promote simple skills, enjoyment, socialisation, and the premise of healthy eating. These can be adapted for Participants or Staff. A perfect start for 1:1 classes, without the structure of a formal programme.

The Cooking for Life programme aims to create positive and sustainable change in areas of both psychosocial and physical health. Specifically, empowering participants with skills around food safety, food preparation, nutrition, healthy food choices, planning, and time management, in a safe and supported environment. Promoting healthy eating habits and teaching real-life skills that will develop greater independence and self-determination and improved health.

Education around nutrition and diet empowers individuals to make healthy choices that contribute to ongoing health, disease prevention and longevity, thus enabling each participant’s legal and human rights to be incorporated into everyday practice. 

Learning to cook Improves object and language skills, fine motor skills, sequencing, timing, and multi-tasking whilst building social participation and a friendship network.

Those attending the Cooking for Life Programme workshops will follow a plan that delivers sustainable change driven by goals such as: practical skills in cooking and the ability to choose healthy meal options.

Those attending a Personalised, Goals Based Cooking for Life Programme will follow a plan that delivers sustainable change towards independence, driven by personal goals such as: practical skills in cooking, the ability to choose healthy meal options, confidence with shopping, meal planning, and budgeting.

Activity styled cooking workshops that can be offered at day centre venues, community sites with appropriate kitchen facilities or another suitable site. The programmes are built to promote simple skills, enjoyment, socialisation, and the premise of healthy eating. These can be adapted for Participants or Staff. A perfect start for 1:1 classes, without the structure of a formal programme.

The Cooking for Life programme aims to create positive and sustainable change in areas of both psychosocial and physical health. Specifically, empowering participants with skills around food safety, food preparation, nutrition, healthy food choices, planning, and time management, in a safe and supported environment. Promoting healthy eating habits and teaching real-life skills that will develop greater independence and self-determination and improved health.

Education around nutrition and diet empowers individuals to make healthy choices that contribute to ongoing health, disease prevention and longevity, thus enabling each participant’s legal and human rights to be incorporated into everyday practice. 

Learning to cook Improves object and language skills, fine motor skills, sequencing, timing, and multi-tasking whilst building social participation and a friendship network.

Those attending the Cooking for Life Programme workshops will follow a plan that delivers sustainable change driven by goals such as: practical skills in cooking and the ability to choose healthy meal options.

Those attending a Personalised, Goals Based Cooking for Life Programme will follow a plan that delivers sustainable change towards independence, driven by personal goals such as: practical skills in cooking, the ability to choose healthy meal options, confidence with shopping, meal planning, and budgeting.