Cook Together Club Fenham

Tasty, low-cost cooking in Fenham, with our programme of free monhtly cooking classes and Cook-At-Home recipe kits!

Cook Together Club Fenham is for local residents to increase their skills, knowledge and confidence to cook delicious meals from scratch where emphasis is on low cost ingredients and low fuel use.

Cookery classes take place once a month and free cook-at-home recipe kits will be available to collect on specific dates too (we'll be looking for local people to join our Recipe Kit Building team too!)

Read on for more information about Cook Together Club Fenham and the eligibility criteria.

This programme is funded by the National Lottery Awards for All Fund.

COOKING CLASSES

Free classes take place once per month (last Tuesday of every month) focussing on familiar midweek meals, family favourites and will help you to reduce reliance on processed food, ready meals and takeaways.

All ingredients are included and everyone takes away everything they cook.

Classes are free although registration is required.

COOK-AT-HOME KITS

Our FREE Cook-at-Home recipe kits are ideal if you are unable to attend the classes, or simply need a bit more help with getting access to fresh food, or maybe you need a bit of recipe inspiration for home cooking to try out.

The recipe kits contain everything you need, including all your ingredients, recipe cards and recipe tutorial videos.

Kits will be available to collect from venues in Fenham.

MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON!!

Sign up for a class here

WHO IS IT FOR?

Cook Together Club welcomes all residents of Fenham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and the surrounding areas particularly people who might feel they struggle to get ingredients or lack confidence to cook from scratch at home.

All we ask is that everyone who takes part is willing to give it a go and put things learned in the classes into practice at home

You can join a class today (or refer someone you know)

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We are also looking for people from the community to help us build the cook-at-home recipe kits.

Experience is not needed, however we do ask that you:

Are 18 or over
Attend a Nourish Food School volunteer induction session
Can commit to at least 4 volunteering sessions
Don't mind putting on a pinny and getting stuck in!

If that sounds like you, or someone you know, head on over to our volunteering homepage to find out more and sign up.

Alternatively, if you have any questions about volunteering with Nourish email alex@nourishfoodschool.co.uk.

Upcoming Cookery Classes
To sign up to one of the classes you can book online below, drop us an email request at hello@nourishfoodschool.co.uk or call/text us on 07888 280 155

The reasons behind this grant funded project

The Cook Together project aims to support residents of Fenham who are experiencing a sense of food insecurity or have other barriers to cooking from scratch that could negatively impact their health and wellbeing. This programme has been designed to offer a pathway away from food insecurity and reliance on emergency food support. Empowerment is central to our approach, focusing on helping people develop coping strategies, resilience, and agency, particularly during economic hardships. We aim for the programme to result in people prioritising good food choices, structuring meal times into every day, cooking more often from basic ingredients at home, reducing their reliance on ultra processed foods/ready meals/takeaways - and most importantly finding their expereince with food as a positive one where issues of money, time and mental health are not a barrier.