Amy has been a Bags of Taste cooking mentor for the last 18 months. Find out more about her experiences and how rewarding she finds it. When I first applied to be a cooking mentor with Bags of Taste in 2021, I was looking for a virtual volunteering opportunity I could do around my full […]
Why what you eat is so important for your mental health
Bags of Taste have been commissioned by Newham Public Health to deliver their weight management initiative in the borough. The course is specifically for people who have a long term condition, a mental health condition, a learning disability or those who are carers.
Boosting confidence and well-being and connecting across the community We caught up with Caroline, our Area Head for Hackney who told us what she gets up to and why it’s so rewarding. Tell us about a day in the life of a Bags of Taste Area Head? No two days are the same which I […]
As 2021 is nearly over, we wanted to let you know what we’ve been up to at Bags of Taste.
Read our in-depth report that includes all the latest stats and figures from the results of our survey on the impact of the Mentored Home Cooking Course one year on.
Read an article about how people in Sheffield are improving their lives with the Bags of Taste Mentored Home Cooking Course
Extract from the Food Foundation report: “Broken Plate”, July 2021 I was discussing crutches the other day. In my old life, when I was working in finance, I occasionally saw crutches, usually associated with someone who’d come back from a skiing holiday. This was maybe once every two years. When I started teaching with […]
Volunteering with Bags of Taste was one of the best decisions I made during lockdown, and I would really encourage anyone with an interest in food or healthy eating to get involved! I have been volunteering as a Mentor, guiding groups of students from all over London through the Mentored home cooking Bags […]