A Taste of the Community

This project was based around the custom of older generations passing down cooking skills and recipes to younger members of their families or entire communities. It highlighted that in certain communities this is a slowly fading tradition. The project focussed on three Communities First areas; Hightown, Gwenfro and Plas Madoc.

These were area’s which had received limited dedicated support from the department beforehand, however good working relationships had previously been developed between AVOW staff and Communities First Development Officers - Therefore this allowed us to build up this dedicated support that came with the project.

The project aimed to bring members of these communities together consisting of all different ages, different backgrounds, cultures, religion or belief with one common interest – cooking.

The participants not only learnt some new cooking skills, they also got to know and become friendly with members of their community that they wouldn’t have necessarily come across if it wasn’t for the project.