Healthy Cooking & Little Seeds Project at Camborne Wesley Centre

 In 2007 we received funding from the EATSOME Small Grant Scheme to equip with utensils the upstairs kitchen at Wesley Centre, Camborne thus enabling numerous families, adults and young people to access healthy living cooking sessions at the Centre.  Other organisations have also used the kitchen for Healthy cooking sessions with their service users. 

‘Little Seeds’ gardening project developed alongside the cooking sessions with the families.  Whilst the food is cooking, children grow their own herbs and salad plants and play football in the hall.

We then progressed to working outdoors on the community Allotment at Pengegon.  Wesley Centre is the guardian of its own plot for the families and young people to plant.  We also encourage the children to engage in educational art and craft events held on the allotment such as Mini Beast Mania! A number of adults have since been on organic gardening courses. 

In the summer around 40 parents and children who had accessed projects at Wesley Centre and the Allotment visited ‘Lowenna’ (Channel View Farm) in Redruth to see how a small holding was managed.  The parents and children were able to ask questions about the general management of livestock and the fruit and veg plot etc.

In the New Year we intend to encourage more young people to experiment with cooking and learn how to ‘grow their own’ on the allotment.  I have been a really pleased that both the cooking and the growing have really encouraged intergenerational work. 

Sue Moore (Wesley Centre Community Worker)
Church in the Community Team
Camborne Wesley Methodist Church, Camborne
01209 610044