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Exciting Partnership with Advantage Buying!
We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership between Wiggly Charity and Advantage Buying, a leading cost reduction consultancy that helps businesses of all sizes save money on essential services such as energy, waste management, water, insurance, telecoms, and broadband. Through this partnership, not only can your business benefit from a free, no-obligation audit of your current costs, but you’ll…
Read MoreIntroducing Social Source!
Social Source empowers and upskills vulnerable people to grow and cook good food, changing lives one jar at a time. Social Source is a new collaboration between Wiggly and Project Grow CIC, born out of our Grow with Wiggly project. At the start of 2024, our organisations teamed up to grow vegetables at the Gloucestershire…
Read MoreFollow the Flow in partnership with Wiggly
Wiggly are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the author and publisher of a fantastic new cook book, called Follow the Flow. Follow the Flow is different. In a world full of cook books, we have never come across one that is quite so clear, intuitive and simple to use, whilst still offering a…
Read MoreNEW Printable Resources for Food Pantries
We know how challenging it can be to feed yourself and your family with fresh, healthy food, and how difficult it is to find the inspiration to cook a meal from scratch every day! For people on low incomes, local food pantries do an amazing job of supplying store-cupboard staples for their clients as well…
Read MoreBBC news report on Grow with Wiggly project
Wiggly was delighted to welcome reporter Jo Durrant to our Wiggly kitchens and the Heritage Hub gardens in Gloucester recently, where we are collaborating with social enterprise Project Grow. Grow with Wiggly project Project Grow are growing seasonal vegetables at the Hub for use in our Wiggly Thriving Communities Seasonal Cookery courses. The vegetables are…
Read MoreGrowing with Wiggly at the Heritage Hub
Wiggly is proud to be collaborating with the wonderful Project Grow and the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub in a project to grow 50% of the vegetables used by Wiggly to support community cookery in Gloucester at the Hub’s existing community garden. The Hub and the Wiggly kitchens are less than 0.5 miles apart so this is a…
Read MoreWiggly new year courses
Do you want to get involved with Wiggly and do some cooking? There’s lots going on at Wiggly and plenty of opportunities to cook with us if you’re keen to learn more in the kitchen. Here’s a taster of what we’ve got planned for the next couple of months. Fresh Hope Community Lunch – every…
Read MoreWiggly Santa’s Gift to you
With Christmas fast approaching, the amount of things to do can sometimes seem over-whelming. Presents to buy, parties to plan, Christmas outfits to choose and family meals to prepare. The demands seem to come from all sides and the cost can really add up and often feels too daunting to manage and afford. At Wiggly,…
Read MoreWestgate Course #1 wraps up
Our Wiggly Westgate course #1 wound up last week with a fabulous final shared meal of mac and cheese with a selection of toppings including crispy bacon and onions. Our participants triumphed by making their own roux for the cheese sauce, and enjoyed the fruits of their labour in a shared meal at the end…
Read MoreWiggly Creepy Cuisine!
Our Wiggly Chef has been busy stirring up the cauldron to create some creepy culinary delights for Halloween! Visit our recipes page to try your hand at our spooktacular Halloween Sausage Mummies. Or why not get creative with the kids and make some Skeleton Gingerbread men or even some Eyeball Brownies. Our recipes are fun,…
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