Feeding Your Future

Increasing kitchen-confidence, cooking skills, food safety knowledge and

employability into the independent hospitality sector.

‘Feed Your Future’ is an interactive and inclusive 6-session programme that helps individuals kickstart their journey into the independent hospitality sector. Through our training, up-skilling and mentorship programme attendees learn new skills, confidence in cooking and will be entered to take their Level 1/2 Food Safety Qualification. It is designed to champion individuals into being creative in the kitchen and finding new skills which they can apply in both life and in future employment.

We accept groups of up to 10 (entirely dependent on funding) and is designed for individuals from deprived or marginalised who may not have received equal opportunities, such as ex-offenders, young people not in employment, education or training or any other groups considered under these criteria.

Our 30hr programme focuses on developing cooking, budgeting and meal planning skills with a focus on affordability, sustainability and nutrition. All sessions are designed to recognise, understand and accommodate the financial, social and other needs of the participants to ensure the content is as inclusive, useful and appropriate.

This programme gives deprived and potentially neglected people opportunity in life.

Our Feeding Your Future programme can be revised and remodelled to meet any cohort. Previous cohorts have been NEETs (not in employment, education or training) as well as Manchester’s homeless communities. 

Our classes cover a wide range of accessible transferable skills including making Greek Salad, Scones, Frittata, Lasagne and Vegetarian Roast Dinner, all from scratch.

What our participants have to say…

‘ You could say I was lost before I found this course. Being Coeliac and wanting to one day open my own Speciality Gluten-Free Restaurant, this course has continued to ignite my dream and set me on the right path to achieving it”

Ashton

Another food course Ashton was set to start fell through. Luckily, we had a contact at Connexions who recommended this course  and we snapped it up. It really came at the perfect time for Ashton. I am so proud of him. 

Yvonne (Ashton’s Mum)

What our partners have to say…

‘Positive session, lots of conversation, friendly and welcoming. Social aspect achieved – people came out of their rooms to eat and were not alone’

Cooking Leader

‘It’s so great to have partnered with such a worthwhile initiative such as Feeding Your Future. We need to give our young people a future and that is what this course has done for those 7 individuals. Thank you Cracking Good Food’

Project Partner