Bury Adult Learning win special award

Date published: 24 November 2009

Bury Council’s Adult Learning Service received high commendation at the Groundwork Business and Community Awards at a special awards ceremony which took place at Bolton Albert Hall on Thursday, 19 November.

The Adult Learning Service won the award for providing a unique ‘healthy living’ course for 16-18 year old students about to embark on university life and living away from home for the first time.

Gill Hughes from Bury Council and Mandy Dixon from Holy Cross College put together a learning package to teach students how to cook for themselves and friends, producing quick, simple, low cost, healthy balanced meals using fresh, locally sourced foods. The course also included information on nutrition and food safety and, along with a team of three tutors and two food technicians, produced a booklet “Cooking for University” containing recipes, what to eat each day, a food safety quiz and how to store food correctly.

This course for many students was their first opportunity to learn how to cook and provided them with basic cooking skills and learning about food hygiene and safety.

The course has proved extremely popular with the students and is growing in strength each year. There are already plans in continuing the course and in 2010 this will have an Italian theme with 2012 having an Olympic theme.

For further information on courses available at Bury adult learning see our website www.bury.gov.uk/EducationAndLearning/AdultAndCommunityEducation or contact student services E-mail student.services@bury.gov.uk, telephone 0161 253 7501.