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Community Food Education
Community food education programmes and classes create safe and welcoming spaces for people to learn more about food. This can be cooking skills, budgeting, cultural recipes, growing food or reducing food waste.
Do you want to host a community food education class in Stockport?
A lot of venues are community rooms/halls, with a single kitchen facility (one sink, one oven, one cooker). The bets way to utilise these spaces are using table top stoves, slow cookers or just deliver a demonstration.
Sector 3 have a Community Venue Database - in the 'Type of venue' column - it will tell you if there is kitchen facilities.
Research - An Evaluation of Community Food Education Programmes in Stockport: An Academic Public Health Report
Ivan Lo (2025)
In 2025, we had Ivan, a student from University of Manchester, help us evaluate what works for community food education in Stockport. This was after a workshop with community partners on what they think helps and hinders community food education.
​Collaboration with others that have similar aims towards fighting food poverty
Having “pillars of your community” involved in the process from the beginning
Calling it a ‘cooking course’ could put people off
People don’t want a commitment to 6-12 week courses
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