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Wellspring Community Kitchen
Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, Bristol
The award winning Wellspring Health Living Centre in Barton Hill is about to get another exciting addition to its superb facilities.
The Wellspring, which is part of the South West Healthy Living Alliance, has just secured a £153,000 grant over 3 years from The Big Lottery Fund to design and build a fully functional learning kitchen. The kitchen will enable the centre to expand its range of services to include teaching people about nutrition, healthy eating and cooking from fresh ingredients.
The aim of our project is to increase awareness among local residents about their diet and how to cook simple food from raw ingredients. In line with government initiatives to improve the health of the nation, this project will offer free workshops to local people where they can learn about all aspects of healthy eating.
There will be an emphasis on knowledge sharing between residents and on improving community cohesion through the sharing of cookery skills from different cultures. The Wellspring has a vegetable garden, which will supply the fresh produce to the kitchen to complete the cycle of educating people about food.
Wellspring Health Living Centre was inspired by local residents and was built as part of Community at Heart’s ten-year New Deal for Communities regeneration programme in the area. An extensive arts programme, Wellbeing team, low-cost Complementary Therapy Clinic, and young people’s health clinic will compliment the learning kitchen and are just some of the additional services running alongside the traditional doctors surgery and dental practice.
What is it?
Wellspring delivers sessions on improving diet and how to cook simple food from raw ingredients. In line with government initiatives to improve the health of the nation, this project offers free workshops to local people where they can learn about all aspects of healthy eating.
There will be an emphasis on knowledge sharing between residents and on improving community cohesion through the sharing of cookery skills from different cultures. The Wellspring has a vegetable garden, which will supply the fresh produce to the kitchen to complete the cycle of educating people about food.
Who can join in?
The people that will mostly benefit from the project will be:
- young people
- parents of under fives
- people with low level mental health problems
- people with learning difficulties
- older people including those recently bereaved
- people with diet related illnesses such as diabetes
- live in the electoral ward of Easton & Lawrence Hill and experience significantly poor health
- have particular health concerns including premature deaths from cancer and CHD, mental ill health, low birth weight babies, high levels of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and drug and alcohol misuse.
- have a life expectancy ten years less than that of the most affluent ward in Bristol
- are refugee and asylum seekers, a large proportion of whom are from Somalia
Where does it take place?
The Wellspring Healthy Living Centre in Barton Hill
When does it take place?
Sessions are run regularly, please contact us for further details.
How do I find out more?
The Wellspring is embedded within the local health community. People will be able to self-refer or will be referred by health and social care professionals.
Please contact: Bearnie Demonick
01173 041 427
bearnie.demonick@wellspringhlc.org
Weblink: www.wellspringhlc.org
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