Get Dorset Cooking! (The Friendly Food Club)

The Friendly Food Club held a Get Dorset Cooking Live event, that was a "Celebration of local produce, the joy of cooking and power of community" and Space Youth Project were lucky to be invited to attend. Our youth worker Jane and a young person from our Weymouth group attended. They had a great day making spring minestrone soup, lentil and orange salad and peach and raspberry pavlova . The young person joined in confidently and really got stuck in with the cooking and engaging with the people on our table. They made the three fab dishes demonstrated by local chefs using local produce when possible (not all as some foods were not seasonal). The event was really well organised and they had loads of attentive support on hand at all times. Their table was led by lovely Kelly who has done cooking with Dorchester group. She did a fab job of keeping everyone cooking. They did all the prep, cooking and eating together as a table. The young person got to take lots of ingredients home to continue the experience.

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Jane and the young person were interviewed at the end by Cameron who is the fund raiser for Friendly Food Club. Jane was able to tell him the massive difference it has made to our Dorchester and Weymouth young people who attend our free youth groups. The young person spoke about their experience of cooking and the impact it has had on them. At the end of the event everyone got to keep their aprons and recipe books.

Look out for the recipes Jane and the young person made in our future newsletters!

Pipe-Cleaner Creatures at SYP Weymouth!

At Weymouth group the young people had so much fun making lots if different pipe cleaner creatures and flowers. Everyone had a busy week so they were happy to chill with some music and craft. Whilst being creative they discussed the beach waste sculpture they are making to go in the Weymouth Seafront display to raise awareness of beach waste and Space Youth Project.

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They also discussed books as Space Youth Project is signed up to improve reading for young people as part of the National Literacy Trusts Go All In campaign!

Pansexual Day of Visibility!

May 24th is pansexual and panromantic day of visibility. 

Commonly confused with bisexual, pansexual means being sexually and/or romantically attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender. Panromantic means specifically being romantically attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender. 

In contrast, bisexuality is attraction to two or more genders usually with more consideration of the differences between them than pansexuality. 

Pansexual and panromantic day of visibility is a day to celebrate those who identify with the terms. Acknowledging the existence of these people is important in order to support and include them and prevent discrimination.

In the past, pansexual people have been oppressed much like the other members of the community. For example, Rita Mae Brown, a novelist and activist was told she could no longer attend her college due to her pansexuality in the 1960s. She described her view as not caring whether she falls in love with black person, white person, man, woman, old or young person and only cared that they had a good heart. 

Unfortunately, occurrences like these are still happening today. Therefore, listening to the voices of pansexual and panromantic people and advocating for them is a great thing to do. 

By Keiran, a supernova