Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, Bristol
Well-being - Welllspring Community Kitchen

The award winning Wellspring Health Living Centre in Barton Hill is about to get another exciting addition to its superb facilities.

The Wellspring, which is part of the South West Healthy Living Alliance, has just secured a £153,000 grant over 3 years from The Big Lottery Fund to design and build a fully functional learning kitchen. The kitchen will enable the centre to expand its range of services to include teaching people about nutrition, healthy eating and cooking from fresh ingredients.

The aim of our project is to increase awareness among local residents about their diet and how to cook simple food from raw ingredients. In line with government initiatives to improve the health of the nation, this project will offer free workshops to local people where they can learn about all aspects of healthy eating.

There will be an emphasis on knowledge sharing between residents and on improving community cohesion through the sharing of cookery skills from different cultures. The Wellspring has a vegetable garden, which will supply the fresh produce to the kitchen to complete the cycle of educating people about food.

Wellspring Health Living Centre was inspired by local residents and was built as part of Community at Heart’s ten-year New Deal for Communities regeneration programme in the area. An extensive arts programme, Wellbeing team, low-cost Complementary Therapy Clinic, and young people’s health clinic will compliment  the learning kitchen and are just some of the additional services running alongside the traditional doctors surgery and dental practice.