Cooking classes and events at The Food Place in February

 

Come and cook your evening meal

Delicious Nutritious present a new cooking session at the Food Place in Goldsmiths Community Centre, starting on Thursday 21st February from 6.30-8pm. Suitable for all ages the theme is 'Cooking your evening meal'.

The sessions are free and have been funded by the NHS. Booking is essential for any of the sessions, please call Delphine on 07857 040853 or email deliciousnutritious@gmail.com

Yummy Explorers

Yummy Explorers started on 16th January and is every Wednesday until 3rd April. Delivered by Delicious Nutritious and funded by Pre-School Learning Alliance Lewisham, Yummy Explorers gives practical tips and recipes for weaning. You can join at any time but you need to pre-book by contacting Jo Cooper on 020 8695 5955 or email jo.cooper@pre-school.org.uk

 

Love Food Hate Waste 

The next Love Food Hate Waste Cooking Workshop is on Thursday 14th February from 10am - 12 noon at Downham Health and Leisure Centre. The workshop is free but booking is essential http://cookingworkshopdownham.eventbrite.co.uk

Monica Price, Nutritional Consultant, delivered a fun Love Food Hate Waste session at the Food Place on 4 February. Participants prepared and cooked pizzas and learned how to minimise waste in cooking, The session was run in conjunction with Lewisham Council, where you can find more information on the series of events. Here are a few photos!

Getting ready to weigh the ingredients

Monica explains about yeast

Just some of the pizza toppings

The finished product!

A Taste of Scotland and Ceilidh

Following the success of previous 'Taste of' events, Downham Nutrition Partnership presents 'A Taste of Scotland and Ceilidh' on Tuesday 26th February from 5.30pm. Booking is essential http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5295701586

There is a marvellous raffle prize of a bottle of Glenlivet single malt whiskey. A £5 donation ensures you will receive a raffle ticket entering you into the prize draw.

Local Assembly Funds 2012-13 for Downham and Whitefoot

What are local assemblies?

Local assemblies are open meetings where you and others decide how to improve your area. Lewisham was the first local authority to establish local assemblies. What's the best way to find out about and contribute to your area? Go along to your local assembly meeting! Details of local assemblies including the dates of the meetings can be found on the Lewisham Council website.

Whitefoot Assembly meeting at St John's Church, Bromley Road

Where is your local assembly?

To find out which ward and assembly you belong to, type in your postcode in the find your councillor search on the Lewisham Council website.

Downham and Whitefoot Ward maps

Do you want to know if you are in Downham or Whitefoot ward? Wards are electoral boundaries for local authorities. In urban areas the wards within a local authority area generally contain roughly the same number of electors and elect three councillors.

View a map of Downham Ward

View a map of Whitefoot Ward

Maps link to Lewisham Council website

Big Jubilee Lunch, Beachborough Gardens supported by Whitefoot Assembly

What about funding?

This year's Downham and Whitefoot Assembly Funds stand at £18,750 each 

£3,750 will be on Councillors recommendations 

The remaining £15,000 will be allocated to groups who can apply for funding.

For 2012-13, the funding will be allocated as follows:

• 2 projects to be capped at £4,000
• 4 amounts of up to £500 seed funding for first time projects
• Remaining projects will be capped at £2,000

Groups who apply for funding have to demonstrate that they meet one or more of the assembly priorities for their area.

Assembly priorities
Each assembly has a set of priorities which have been agreed are most important to their area, through assembly meetings and outreach to local groups and individuals.

Downham

• antisocial behaviour
• youth provision
• environment
• provision for the elderly
• adult education

Whitefoot 

• crime and anti-social behaviour                                
• lack of community facilities       
• activities for young people        
• roads and traffic       
• lack of community spirit

The deadline for applications to the funds is no later than 12pm on Monday 10 September 2012. Please contact the Downham and Whitefoot Assemblies coordinator Jason Fleming for more information and an application form on 020 8314 3253 or by email jason.fleming@lewisham.gov.uk