Gap Finders - Bags of Taste Founder Alicia Weston

Available for over a year

While Alicia Weston was running cooking classes for vulnerable people with a charity, she made a discovery. Most of the people she was teaching to cook on the course never actually went on to cook these meals at home. As she looked in to the reasons, she discovered that a key part of getting people to cook at home regularly, was to have these cooking lessons in their home in the first place. They also lacked the ingredients and tools. And so Bags of Taste was born, an innovative free cookery course aimed at getting people from disadvantaged backgrounds cooking healthy meals for less than £1. Participants receive a bag of food to their door with all the ingredients for seven meals, three recipes and all the materials required for to take part in the two week course which is delivered remotely to their phone. Since launching in 2014 Bags of Taste has taught over 14,000 people and delivered 100,000 meals. PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON PRODUCER: CATHERINE EARLAM