Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Burnley Pendle and Rossendale CVS to help provide healthy eating at Chai Centre in Burnley
Lancashire Wildlife Trust are welcoming people to the Chai Centre in Burnley to learn about how they can look after their local environment and improve their health at the same time.
With funding from Burnley Pendle and Rossendale CVS through the Shared Prosperity Fund, free weekly sessions will take place at the centre in Hurtley Street with everyone coming together to further improve and enjoy the vibrant community garden.
Themed around environmental awareness campaigns the Lancashire Wildlife Trust team, led by Nature and Wellbeing Officer Katie Chambers, will demonstrate how local actions feed into the wider environmental movement, community engagement and learning.
Katie said: “Our November theme is trees, and a lovely opportunity to head out for a crisp and chilly winter tree walk at local Townley Park, finishing off back at the newly opened Chai Centre community cafe for a warming fresh brew”.
Katie will also run sessions to cook, preserve and eat some of the produce grown in the garden, which ties in perfectly with the long-awaited full re-opening of the Chai Centre Café.
Rebecca Allen, a volunteer for Lancashire Wildlife Trust at the Chai Centre, said: “The cafe will bring more hope and inspiration for people to be involved within the progress of the Chai Centre and the other groups there.”
Kevin O’Hara, partnership manager for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust, who run the Chai Centre, said: “The café’s healthy eating menu, will sit happily alongside the fantastic nature-based activity in the community garden, including growing fruit and vegetables that can be cooked both in the outside kitchen and now in the café.
“This is testament to the great work the Community Roots team, NHS colleagues, and volunteers at the Chai Centre, alongside our LWT colleagues are doing to support the community.”
Whether you have an interest in getting outdoors, gardening, cooking, or just spending time with other members of your community, attending one of the welcoming and friendly Nature and Wellbeing sessions at the Chai Centre can help to build confidence, improve wellbeing and provide you with lots of new skills. Sessions run every Wednesday from 10am-noon and 2pm-4pm.
If you are interested in getting involved in the Nature and Wellbeing sessions, please email [email protected] or ring 01772 872007 for more information.