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BBC News
20 hours ago
- General
- BBC News
Charity Pick, Cook and Eat seeks funds for vulnerable students
A new charity is seeking funding to help it support more vulnerable young adults understand where food comes from and how to prepare nutritious Cook and Eat aims to provide educational opportunities through activities such as horticulture, nutrition, food preparation and cookery across North charity is based in the gardens of Overtown Manor near Wroughton, and works with students with severe special educational needs from Horizon's College in Royal Wootton Carter, who runs the vegetable garden, said: "This is something that the students absolutely love, planting the potatoes and digging them up afterwards. There's nothing more satisfying." She added that the programme was important for adding variety into the student's - who are aged 16 to 24 - lives. The project began in 2014 when the college approached Overtown Manor to ask whether they could send a couple of students on work experience placements to work in the numbers subsequently grew when the college lost access to its own garden following the pandemic, resulting in eight students now attending on a weekly basis, with their support charity, which gained charitable status earlier this year, is hoping the funding will allow it to buy hand tools and raised planters and build a bigger administrator Rhona Edwards said: "We know from Horizon's College, and also from the local authority adoption service, that there is a need for more young people to be able to come to spend time in the garden, and in order to do that, we need some additional funding."
CBC
3 days ago
- Politics
- CBC
Matt MacFarlane chosen as leader of P.E.I. Green Party
Matt MacFarlane has been elected leader of the P.E.I. Green Party. The Borden-Kinkora MLA got 507 of the 647 votes cast. He was running against former Green Party MLA Hannah Bell. The leadership convention took place at Bluefield High School in North Wiltshire Saturday. It was originally scheduled for a smaller venue, but was relocated after the party's membership quadrupled to 800 in the lead-up to the vote. The Greens have been without a leader since Peter Bevan-Baker left the position after the 2023 provincial general election. That vote saw the party tumble from Official Opposition status. Their eight seats were cut to two — Bevan-Baker and Karla Bernard, who stepped up as interim leader. The Greens added a third seat in the legislature after MacFarlane won a February 2024 byelection in Borden-Kinkora. That was triggered by the resignation of former Progressive Conservative MLA Jamie Fox, who stepped down to run for the federal Conservatives. Byelections are set to be called before the end of the summer in Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park and Brackley-Hunter River. Those seats were left vacant when former PC cabinet minister Natalie Jameson stepped down to run in the federal election for the Conservatives, and Dennis King stepped down as premier and MLA. The Greens and the P.E.I. Liberal Party each have three seats in the legislature, so the upcoming byelections could decide which party becomes the Official Opposition.
