{"id":7479,"date":"2024-05-02T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T14:42:52","slug":"funding-provided-to-support-community-meals-in-leith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/funding-provided-to-support-community-meals-in-leith\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding provided to support community meals in Leith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to have been able to provide over \u00a314k funding towards community meals in Leith. The \u00a314,225 funding via the National Lottery\u2019s Community Fund will support a joint community venture by Pilmeny Development Project and FENIKS. This will allow its weekly Multi-Cultural Cook Along to continue until at least March 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7481\" src=\"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/Multi-Cultural-Cook-Along-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the cook along.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These cook alongs provide a welcoming and safe space for older members of the Leith community to meet, cook, eat and spend time together. This helps to reduce social isolation, loneliness and food poverty in a collaborative way. Some group members have also benefitted from activities at the cook alongs which have helped to improve their English language skills.<\/p>\n<p>Mary O\u2019Connell who runs the project said: \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing group of people. To see how they all come together while cooking, playing bingo and getting competitive during Play Your Cards Right after the meal is brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another attendee, 83, has been attending the events for several months now. He said: \u201cJust look around the table, I\u2019m English, there are Scots, Canadians, Polish and Irish here and we all get on really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Murray, Placemaking Manager at Harbour Homes said: \u201cThere\u2019s a genuine warmth and togetherness about the group which speaks volumes about the work being done here. It\u2019s a privilege for Harbour Homes to be in a position to help support projects like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The funding will also help provide transport allowing group members to attend the cook alongs at the Pilmeny Resource Centre. In addition to the Multi-Cultural Community Meals, the funding will go towards supporting Older People\u2019s Meals and Pilmeny Development Project Community Food Provisions for their youth clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are pleased to have been able to provide over \u00a314k funding towards community meals in Leith. 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