meal makers presentation

Connecting Generations Through Food

What is Meal Makers?

Meal Makers is a project which encourages and facilitates people to cook and share an extra portion of food with an older person living locally who could really benefit from a delicious, free, home cooked meal from a friendly neighbour.

How it works

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Cook signs up and completes criminal record

check and food hygiene test

Local Recruiters find Diners and help to sign them up

Cooks search for local Diners, Meal Makers team

help make the match.

Cook and Diner arrange a date and time for a meal

share

Cook delivers tasty home cooked meal to their diner

Why was it needed?

Malnourishment among older adultsIt is estimated that 1 in 10 people over 65 living in the community are malnourished or at risk1

Social Isolation and loneliness17% of older people are in contact with family, friends and neighbours less than once a week and 11% are in contact less than once a monthOver half (51%) of all people aged 75 and over live alone63% of adults aged 52 or over who have been widowed, and 51% of the same group who are separated or divorced, report feeling lonely some of the time or often59% of adults aged over 52 who report poor health say they feel lonely some of the time or often2

Changes in society – Geographic mobility, change in family structures, demographic shift

1 'A review and summary of the impact of malnutrition in older people and the reported costs and benefits of interventions' Malnutrition Task Force, 2013

2 http://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/loneliness-research/, 2017

http://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/loneliness-research/

Intergenerational Approach

Participatory Cooks and Diners shape the project for them – when, how and how oftenParticipants bring own positive resources to the project

Promotes greater understanding and respect between generationsCreates new connections in communities – happier, more understanding, more vibrant Challenges stereotypes around ageism

Mutually Beneficial Both Cooks and Diners benefit from activitiesMore than just a food project – additional benefits

Launch dates and progress so far


Dundee: 4th August 2014



Glasgow: 5th January 2015




Perth & Kinross: 23rd November 2015





Renfrewshire: 5th January 2016






Edinburgh: 16th February 2016






Edinburgh: 16th February 2016

Stirling: 21st November 2016


4,800 Meals shared

4,602 hours of befriending

363 ‘Cooks’ and ‘Diners’ matched

*Stats accurate as of 28/02/2017Aug-14 Nov-14 Feb-15 May-15 Aug-15 Nov-15 Feb-16 May-16 Aug-16 Nov-16 Feb-170

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Meal Makers in Pictures

Contact details

0800 783 7770

8 [email protected]

* Room 28, Hydepark Business Centre, 60 Mollinsburn Street, Glasgow, G21 4SF

www.mealmakers.org.uk