Tower Hamlets, one of our neighbouring boroughs, faces some of the highest levels of deprivation, wealth inequality and food poverty in the country. Since 1984 the Bromley By Bow Centre has provided integrated health and community support to the people of Tower Hamlets, working to improve community cohesion, reduce isolation and improve access to health care and food and nutrition. The Company is supporting the centre’s programmes tackling food and nutrition, improving access to healthy, affordable food and harnessing the power of cooking and eating together to tackle social isolation.
The centre’s Cook & Company sessions provide specialist cookery classes for Social Care clients: individuals with profound learning difficulties, disabilities or neuro-divergence who require full-time day care from family members. The communal cooking provides valuable sociable interactions for people who are often at particularly high risk of social exclusion, combined with beneficial activities designed to support increased independence and practical skills, enabling participants to improve their understanding of healthy eating and develop their cooking skills to enable them to plan, purchase and cook, healthy affordable meals. Company support has provided full funding for three years of these sessions, delivering tangible social and health benefits to some of the borough’s most vulnerable people.
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