Our work with food

Healthy food at our sessions

At every youth club session, we provide fresh fruit platters and a nutritionally balanced hot meal for all of our children and young people.

Children can also bring hot food home to their families after the session.

Dinner time at JYC is a positive experience for both the children and team members at our youth club sessions. Children have the opportunity to sit with their friends and socialize, they can talk about their day and build friendships with new children and staff, whilst eating yummy food.

Food activities at youth club

We have always created fun & informal ways to teach children about healthy eating at our youth club sessions and through our holiday activity provision.

We have found that if children have fun and participate in making food, they’re more likely to try what they have made. Using food in this way builds self-confidence and teaches children new skills.

Funding success!

We have recently received a grant of £14,770 from the Well Together programme to support local children, young people and their families!

The Well Together Programme is delivered in partnership by OCVA and Community First Oxfordshire and funded by the NHS Integrated Care Board with the aim to promote health and wellbeing and reduce inequality through community-based activities.

Over the next year, we will be running cooking activities every week at our youth club sessions, exploring healthy and fun recipes that the children and young people will love making and trying!

There will also be plenty of opportunities for local families to take part in easy, tasty and fun cooking activities at various community events based in Rose Hill throughout the year!

Chef Gregg Brown joins the JYC team!

Gregg is dedicated to helping RHJYC shape the future for everyone by raising awareness about our vital work in the community!

He will be supporting us by running regular cooking workshops and hopes to encourage an enthusiasm for preparing food and understanding the importance of a varied and nutritious diet through fun cooking activities for the whole community.

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Free family cooking sessions

Free cooking sessions for families based at Rose Hill Community centre, supported by the Well Together fund! Click the button below to find out more!

Family cooking information

Supporting the community with food

In response to the increased requests for help over the last 18 months we are now supporting many adults in addition to children & young people.

We are actively expanding the range of support that we offer to include holistic well-being activities and a wider range of food support to meet the growing needs of the community.

We support the community with freshly cooked hot meals during the school holidays, plus bags of essential food and grocery items.

We also run cookery clubs to teach families how to cook healthy low-cost meals, supported by the Well Together Fund.