UK Harvest is welcoming a group of residents from Chichester’s Lacy House to join a volunteer team to help combat loneliness and isolation among the elderly.
Volunteering residents will help with a project called ‘shop, chop and chat’, which was developed over the last few months by UK Harvest and funded by the Hyde group.
The project aims to engage communities through food and natter and provides residents with a free shop, this allows them to cook healthy meals independently while making neighbourly connections.
During a recent session, one group member notes that “I am hugely impressed with this organised initiative to help the elderly and people with life difficulties, become inspired to make healthy and quick meals and life changes in the kitchen, especially with ailments such as diabetes”.
Corinne Kay, Scheme Officer said “The sessions have been a brilliant success with our residents. Not only are they a fantastic opportunity for people to come together and have a chat over a cup of tea in our lounge, but they then all prepare a nutritious, tasty meal. Our residents loved making ‘one pot chicken’ and they said that they were looking forward to sharing this low-cost and tasty recipe with friends and family.
“UKHarvest has lots of ideas to generate inclusion in our scheme and we hope to be able to roll it out to all schemes, with much-needed nourishment for residents’ minds, bodies and souls.
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