4th October 2012

DORCHESTER: Nutritional workshop to raise funds

by Trevor Bevins

A fundraising workshop as part of Bake with Compassion Month is being planned for Dorchester’s Dorford Centre in the coming days.

Local dietitians Sandra Hood and Sarah Smith will be running a fundraising workshop on Nutritional Cooking for Health and Vitality in the centre on Saturday, October 20th.

Bake with Compassion is the annual fundraiser of the farm animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming, and is returning for its fourth year, running throughout the month of October. Compassionate Bakers in Dorset and throughout the UK will be baking with higher welfare ingredients such as free-range eggs and organic dairy products, or using vegan ingredients to make this a compassionate month to remember.

The cookery workshop will raise funds for both compassion and their local supporter group Compassionate Dorset, who campaign to improve the lives of animals farmed for food and to end factory farming.

Sandra and Sarah will be showing participants how to cook delicious, nutritious and healthy food quickly and easily with a hands-on demo’, using ingredients that can energise you, keep you slimmer, and help reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other illnesses. They will be preparing and cooking a full menu including a starter, main meal and a yummy pudding too.

Participants will get to taste all the food during a sit down shared meal at the end of the workshop and all food will be vegan-friendly, as Sandra and Sarah believe a plant based diet is the way forward for a healthy lifestyle.

Sandra says: “We believe that factory farming is the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet and is devastating for the environment, so we want to show that eating more plant based food and less meat, is not only much healthier and can help reduce the risk of many illnesses, but can also help reduce the high and unsustainable demand for meat and dairy which is why factory farms exist in the first place.”

Sandra and Sarah both work as dietitians at the Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In her spare time Sandra is the voluntary Nutritional Advisor for The Vegan Society and is author of Feeding Your Vegan Infant with Confidence.

She recently carried the Olympic Torch after being nominated for her charity work including for Compassion in World Farming and Diebetes UK. Sarah is an experienced cookery workshop facilitator.

To find out more and book a place on the workshop visit www.compassionatedorset.co.uk and for more information on Bake With Compassion Month visit www.ciwf.org.uk.

PICTURE: Sandra Hood and Sarah Smith who will be running a cookery workshop at the Dorford Centre later this month

DORCHESTER: Nutritional workshop to raise funds

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