Food Ambassadors
Become a Food Ambassador with Healthy Living Platform 🌱 🥦 🍽️
Calling all Lambeth residents! Are you passionate about food and nutrition? Are you ready to make a positive impact on your community? Join our Food Ambassadors course.
Unlock your culinary potential!
Over the course of a few weeks, our comprehensive programme covers a range of topics to empower you with valuable knowledge. From understanding the NHS Eatwell plate to minimising food waste, you'll gain insights into making informed, healthy choices for you and your loved ones.
Cook with confidence!
Learn essential skills in safe and nutritious food preparation. Discover the art of crafting delicious meals that are both nourishing and flavorsome. We'll guide you through step-by-step, ensuring you develop the confidence to create culinary wonders in your own kitchen and undertake projects of your own!
Plan and deliver a fun food event!
During the course, we’ll support you to develop your confidence and design a food-based event delivered to a group in your community. This could be a cookery workshop with elderly women, a shared lunch at the local tenants and residents association or an activity with toddlers and parents – the possibilities are endless!
Over 200 Food Ambassadors and counting!
Join a thriving community of over 200 trained Food Ambassadors who are already making a difference. Share your experiences, exchange ideas, and inspire others with your newfound knowledge. Together, we can cultivate healthier lifestyles for Lambeth!
Make an impact: Volunteer with HLP!
As part of the course, you'll have the opportunity to put your skills into action by volunteering with HLP. Use your skills to contribute to exciting projects, events and initiatives that promote healthy eating across Lambeth in a variety of ways. We’re particularly interested in supporting individuals who have creative ideas about how to support their community through food, and want to become actively engaged through volunteering.
Get into work
You’ll gain an official Food Hygiene Level 2 Certificate plus invaluable experience in a commercial kitchen setting and in your local community, which will support you with access paid work beyond the course. We’ll also offer a professional reference once you’ve completed 15 hours of volunteering with us.
Priority for community groups supported through our Surplus Food Hub
As we want your skills and training to be shared far and wide, priority enrolment will be given to Lambeth residents who are actively volunteering with Lambeth community groups. Advantage is given to groups who currently access food through our Surplus Food Hub.
Free for Lambeth Residents!
This invaluable course is completely free for Lambeth residents. Take advantage of this incredible opportunity to enhance your understanding of nutrition and positively impact your community's well-being.
To express your interest in our next course or learn more, email Anna at anna.sjovorr@healthylivingplatform.org.
Together, let's nourish Lambeth, create a healthier future, and make a difference through volunteering with HLP!
Listen to what some of our previous Food Ambassadors and our Food Ambassador Lead Yasmin had to say about the course…
Here is what some of the participants have said after completing the programme:
‘I loved the sessions and how it was delivered was great – very informative and fun working with like-minded people making a change through healthy eating’.
‘A well prepared and informative course, with friendly people. The nutritionist was brilliant’.
‘An informative programme led in a friendly, relaxed environment, encompassing the healthy sustainable ethos of healthy living platform’.
‘I have taken away different insights from other cultures/backgrounds. I have found it helpful to receive tips on how to reduce sugar and salt. I am now more interested to learn how to cook veggie and vegan meals’.
