Mindful Cookery Course 16 - 25 year olds

The Gateshead Mindful Cookery Course is a free 8-week cookery course that upskills, inspires and enables people to make really tasty and positive changes to their diet that positively impacts their health and wellbeing - particularly tackling concerns such as low mood.

This course is run by Nourish Food School in Gateshead whilst developed and evaluated in partnership between Nourish Food School, Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food, The Foundation for Young People’s Mental Health and the University of Reading.

COURSE CONTENT
This programme is FREE, all we ask is that you can attend 8 cookery classes, can fill in a few forms for evaluation and are eager to put into practice things you learn in the classes at home.

It includes:

• 8 practical, fun cookery classes
• Take home everything you cook - no cost
• Free storecupboard food hamper on week 1 
• Nutritional know-how taught in every class
• Ongoing food support, advice and motivation
• Weekly home cooking challenges
• Food and recipe cards provided
  
  ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
  This course is part of a study to show that cooking and eating well can have a positive impact on our mood. This means we are opening places on the course for people who are:
• age 16-18 years old (or up to 25 if there are
  any SEND needs)
• living in Gateshead
• sometimes experiencing episodes of low mood.
• willing and able to put the skills and recipes into practice at home.
•  happy to support the project by completing a few forms at the start and end of the course

For more information visit https://www.nourishfoodschool.co.uk/gatesheadmindfulcooking