Cohort 4 Celebrating Lottery Community Funding
Queens Award winning Community Group celebrate Lottery Funding Tucked away down a quiet side street in Atherstone is Cohort 4. Based at the St Benedict’s Community Hall in Owen Street, Cohort 4 organise a range of weekly groups run by women, for women who have multiple and complex disadvantage. There are social groups, lunch groups and creativity sessions, all without charge for women from the surrounding areas. The growing team at Cohort 4 include a specialist Mental Health Practitioner, an Activity Coordinator and Women Support Project Workers. Cohort 4 celebrates receiving a huge £216,493 from the National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. This vital funding, raised by National Lottery players ensures that the…
This is not just Bread Pudding, it is so much more
This is not just bread pudding, it is so much more. I sat eating a slice this afternoon, savouring the deliciousness with a cup of frothy coffee, thinking about Julia and our group of women at Cohort 4. I thought about the ordinariness of a bread pudding and yet each week Julia makes the group this cake from everyday ingredients, including often left over or donated FareShare bread. The comfort it brings is far greater than the sum of its parts. Food historians traced back to the 11th century in Europe, it has been a popular sweet dish in England since the 13th Century, made from scraps of stale bread and known as ‘poor man’s pudding.’ For me this is…