Food is Mood – Chef Noel Goulding
Our friend, Chef Noel Goulding, of the Veterans Food Company, is returning to the Lighthouse Project in the New Year running their Food is Mood cooking sessions
2 December 2025
Cooking
Open Day – Lighthouse Chef’s Brigade
We are looking to establish the first volunteer led community based Chef’s Brigade in the Lighthouse Project to support the centre and to cook meals for the Pantry.
12 January 2024
Eat Well Spend Less – starting 11th April 2016
In April we are starting a new Trussell Trust devised course called ‘Eat Well Spend Less’ in conjunction with Middleton Central Foodbank. This is a free six-session course teaching people cookery skills and household budgeting tips to help make tight budgets stretch further. Typically, we look at the basics of
21 March 2016
Food safety achievement – Pat & Pam
“You are never too old to learn new skills” is a principle that volunteer Pat Hepworth holds to as she and several other Lighthouse Project volunteers participated in a Level 2 Food Safety in Catering course run through the Inspire Community College. Pam Semp, our Centre Manager, also took the
7 September 2015
Lighthouse Cooking Club
Most people like food, but not everyone feel confident in cooking food Here at the Lighthouse Project we want to change this by helping you to learn new skills so that you can prepare yourself simple and enjoyable meals, that are tasty, nutritious and don’t break the bank. Taking inspiration from
19 June 2015
Health sessions – making life work for you
Living Well – Making life work for you We all want to get the best out of life and to live well, but for many of us there are just too many things that get in the way, and then we feel bad about it. But things don’t need to be
23 January 2015
Cooking for one – the Stirrer’s Club
The Stirrer’s Club was initially set up as a pilot project run by RBH and held at the Lighthouse Project. The group ran for 6 weeks offering cooking opportunities for older men who live alone or are caring for a partner. It was a great success and we all enjoyed
15 October 2013
Baking with friends – starter session 30th May
Have you ever wanted to have a go at baking but were too afraid to ask? We are running a baking starter session on Thursday 30th May between 12-2pm. Baking with friends is designed to make things nice and simple, with the use of easy to make recipes and not
20 May 2013
Healthy Eating & Cooking sessions in June
Starting in mid June we are running another 6 weeks of healthy eating and cooking sessions, Wednesday’s from 1pm. The sessions are hosted by Diane one of the local health trainers and each week you will be shown how to cook a healthy recipe as well as learning about healthy
20 May 2013
Baking with Friends – bake-off challenge
Do you think you could use baking to help some of your friends gain confidence with both their maths and computer skills? If so then our new Baking with Friends challenge is perfect for you! Starting during Spring Online (22 – 26 April) and running right through to Adult Learners’ Week (18 – 24
13 April 2013
New Cook and Taste sessions – May 2012
Want to find out about healthy cooking? We are staring a new mini-series of Cook and Taste sessions with Michelle and Diane our local health trainers. These sessions are running on Friday mornings 10am – 11:30am on 11th, 18th & 25th May, and 1st June 2012 These are drop-in sessions
10 May 2012
Food & relaxation helps mood and reduce stress
Food and Mood On 27th April we ran a food and mood cooking session as an introduction to show visitors the benefits of certain foods in helping improve your mood and tackling stress. The session was delivered by our local health trainers, Michelle and Diane, who explained how food effects our
30 April 2012