Cafe project The aim of our cooking and catering work is to give young people from a variety of backgrounds experience in kitchen and customer service skills. They get to learn different catering and customer service skills in a real café environment. Taking part in the cafe helps gain skills for future employment: boost their confidence provides … Read more
Global Kitchen is an initiative run in collaboration between ArtReach and Soft Touch Arts, both organisations are registered charities specialising in working with disadvantaged communities and supporting health and well-being through creativity of all types. Global Kitchen will have 3 strands of activity. 1) Refugee and asylum seeker individuals who would like to share their home country recipes will participate … Read more
YES project aims to change lives of young people Soft Touch Arts is one of eight partners working with Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) on a new £1.94m project that will support some of Leicester and Leicestershire’s most at risk young people. The project, called the Youth Employability Support (YES) project, will aim to transform the … Read more
The project helps refugees and asylum seekers to feel less isolated and make new friends by attending cooking session at the Soft Touch Arts kitchen at 50 New Walk. They share recipes and cook together using ingredients they get from foodbanks and cheap bowls of vegetables on sale at Leicester Market. Some of the group … Read more
Well Cool is a cooking project which works with New Parks, as part of Big-Up New Parks. The project ran from July 15 until August 6 2015 and the participants were 9 New Parks guides. Three of the sessions were spent in the new sMASHing Soft Touch project kitchen, learning about nutrition and what it … Read more
Year 5 pupils at Mellor Community Primary School had plenty of opportunity to get their hands on – and teeth into – lots of fresh fruit and veg as part of the Veg-tastic project. The half-day activity had the children identifying and learning about different fruit and vegetables – where they come from, how they … Read more