Coatbridge community organization receives five-figure funding from leading bakery brand Warburtons.
A £20,000 grant to the Kirkshaws Neighborhood Center will help the facility offer healthy cooking classes to those in need.
This group will support Kirkshaw and the wider South by advancing education and providing facilities for social welfare, recreation, and other activities to improve the quality of life for local people. Supporting residents of the Courtbridge area.
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A grant from Warburtons will be used to develop the Center's Health and Wellbeing Project, which aims to provide healthy cooking workshops to people struggling with the rising cost of living.
The funding will also enable the center to provide classes and food to identified families with support from FareShare, Neighborly and the Lanarkshire Food and Health Partnership.
Kirkshaws Neighborhood Center's William McBride toldLanarkshire Live: Help young people, parents and caregivers learn how to prepare healthy, low-cost meals and snacks, and provide basic knowledge about budgeting and making healthy grocery shopping choices.
The Warburtons Foundation is committed to helping the organization. Working in communities across the UK through product donations, educational programs and financial donations, by the end of the year nationwide he has pledged to donate 1 million fresh produce to schools, food banks and community groups. doing.
Jonathan Warburton, Chairman of the Warburtons, said: "We are very happy to support the Kirkshaws Neighborhood Center through our local grant program.
"Through the valuable work the center does, Family caregivers can benefit from the support and information available.
"The Warburtons Foundation supports charities and communities across the UK through product donations, education and funding. We continue to look for ways to support the group.
"It has been a very challenging few years, and we will continue to listen and act to support our families as best we can."
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