Loughborough College chef makes hundreds of meals for vulnerable people

More than 250 meals a day are being made to help people during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Loughborough College chef has been making hundreds of meals for vulnerable people across the area during lockdown.

Hospitality and catering lecturer - Julie Eldridge has been producing more than 250 meals a day alongside four other volunteers for the charity Framework.

Organisational Volunteer Manager for Framework, Omied Hallam said: “Julie brings an absolutely vital skill set. Everything we have is from donations so we don’t know from day to day what will arrive in the kitchen. But hundreds of meals need to be created. It’s like Ready Steady Cook on a massive scale. What Julie and the other cooks are doing is brilliant,” 

“This is such important work for so many vulnerable people currently isolated in our community due to lockdown. If we don’t feed them, no one will. Because of these volunteers, we are able to drop off meals to them each day.”

Loughborough College hospitality and catering lead and chef lecturer Darren Creed added: “It’s great that we have been able to support Frameworks and Creed Foodservice who, also support them, by offering our cookery skills in producing more than 250 meals each day. It’s been a challenge, not knowing what ingredients they will have until they arrive. But to be able to produce food in such numbers and know it will help so many people is fantastic.”