Bringing Generations Together is how we talk about Leeds’
intergenerational approach’. Leeds is a diverse and vibrant city with
people from all ages and all backgrounds. It is our aim, as a city, to
build on the benefits of this diversity and provide good opportunities for
everyone who lives here.
As a partnership, Harmonious Communities belief is
that through working well together, as agencies and communities, we can create
the conditions where people of all ages and all backgrounds can thrive.
We do know that as a society there are increasing
tensions and that people of all ages report feeling isolated and
undervalued. An intergenerational approach guides us towards addressing
these issues – providing the opportunity for dialogue between generations to
together face the issues that affect us all. Too often we approach issues
of youth or age as though they are problems; through bringing generations
together we have the opportunity to find solutions that can strengthen our
communities and improve people’s health and wellbeing.
Through the Vision for Leeds and our Strategic Plan we
have clear priorities to achieve for Leeds.
Bringing Generations Together identifies ways that
intergenerational approaches help us achieve and enhance these priorities.
The newly launched document Bringing Generations
Together: Leeds’ Intergenerational Approach sets out a practical way forward
that will help to truly make Leeds a city for all ages.
To set up your after school cooking
club
All schools in Yorkshire
and Humberside have been offered a CD of intergeneration cooking club
resources, claim yours quick.
- Recipes
- Detailed lesson plans/shopping lists
- Log book activities
- Details on how to recruit your Cooking
Champions
- Hygiene training pack for Cooking Champions
- How to ease your Cooking Champions into school
and introductions and recipe training required.
- Issues to consider – notes from our experiences
- Funding options
- Speak to your Head Teacher about setting up an
after school cooking club.
- Speak to the Head of Food Technology to sort out
the details and recruit any interested staff, we recommend 1 Food Technology
Teacher and 1 Teaching Assistant or Technician or alternatively 2 enthusiastic
Teaching Assistants/Technicians.
- Have a discussion with the relevant person about
paying the staff who run the cooking clubs, costs etc.
- Speak with your Extended Services representative
about the funding streams available.
- Complete the funding applications
- Send letters to your local supermarkets for
funding of ingredients
- Organise where you’ll purchase ingredients
- Speak to your local older people’s organisations
about recruiting volunteers.
- Check status of equipment, is there any
additional money to purchase extra equipment?
Contact:
Dr Lisa
Gatenby/ Gill Hooper.
Cooking Communities Project.
Leeds Trinity University
College.
Tel: 0113 283 7100 ext 351.
Email: l.gatenby@leedstrinity.ac.uk, g.hooper@leedstrinity.ac.uk