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Our next Good Food Good Health Class begins 29 May 2012. This course is suitable for organisations seeking to set up and run their own cooking classes. The course is accredited by the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland. It runs over a period of 10 weeks with around 28 hours training in total and works with both staff and service users enabling organisations to implement their own programme of cooking classes. More information can be found here or get in touch.

Calling all ramblers, dog walkers, wildlife spotters and those looking for a good day out. Here is the opportunity of the year.

The annual Cyrenians Good Food Programme sponsored walk is coming up again on: Saturday 21st April 2012.

This is a great day out on one of the most beautiful walks in Edinburgh.

Starting at Balerno take the scenic route through the countryside areas outside Currie and Baberton, through the lovely Colington Dell down to Longstone Visitors Centre. The centre boosts a great display of wildlife and history of the river, not to mention the lunch provided by the Good Food team.

The walk continues through the City of Edinburgh, past the Murrayfield stadium, through Dean village, Stockbridge, Canonmills and down to Leith to finish at the Good Food depot. On this journey you get views of Edinburgh unobtainable from all other routes.

So get your walking boots on and join us. Refreshments will be provided along the route, life guards will not!

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"I am a support worker from Lochend.
I just wanted to say Thank You for all your help and patience with having one of our residents at your cooking classes recently.
Those cooking classes brought such a positive effect in his life and he is so proud of a certificate received in the end of the course.
Once again, many thanks for your good work and making those important and positive changes in peoples lives."

When John (also renamed 'Baby Johnny' by our EVS volunteers) walked into the depot to drive refrigerated vans, he wasn’t expecting to get a full-time placement with us and then become a super multi-tasking volunteer. He didn’t know he would become able to deliver and pick up food as well as sort good food out from mouldy. Nor did he know he would one day be able to make phone calls to food donors in a very professional manner and enter items on a computer database. He didn’t have the slightest idea that he would have fed himself with something other than jam doughnuts. Moreover, he wouldn’t have believed anyone saying that one day he would even cook something and see other volunteers queuing to get a portion of what he had made, because “John’s a good cook!” But that day has finally come. After taking part in an 8-week cookery course, John has graduated!

Good Food Good Health is our new 'train the trainer' course which we developed to train others in food and nutrition and in delivering practical cooking sessions to a level of competence accepted by REHIS. Good Food Good Health has officially been accepted for accreditation by the Royal Environmental Health Institute Scotland (REHIS). The picture here shows The CEO of REHIS Tom Bell, and Cyrenians CEO Des Ryan exchanging contracts in recognition of the award. To find out more about the course contact Chris Stevenson on (0131) 554 3900.