Welcome to a very unusual, but I hope you find it very interesting edition of Offair.

Today, Fee, I've been out and about, and you know I don't do that very often because of the temperature,

because I'm risk averse,

because I'm also bone idle. But honestly, this was really worth doing. Ask me where I went.

Where did you go?

I went.

By the way, in an episode made possible by the National Lottery, to a really cracking project,

not very far away from Kings's Cross Station in North London

called Cook for Good. And if I'm honest with you, I went with, I don't know, what were my expectations?

I actually thought, oh, I'm being very worthy here, but am I going to get much out of this? But you know what? I left feeling a million times better.

It was just a really good life-enhancing idea that was quite evidently making a difference to a lot of lives.

So what does Cook for Good actually do?

Well, Cook for Good is a national lottery-funded social enterprise and also a cookery school that's the important bit

it raises money for the local community via team building days and this is where groups of people

from a workplace in fact we could do it actually our team from times radio could go along and do it

they go into the kitchen and they make these really tasty nutritious nutritious meals as a kind of bonding exercise.

And then the meals, because they're really good, are delivered to local residents,

to shelters or to charities in the Kings Cross area.

Now, since 2021, Cook for Good has received more than £18,000 in funding from national

lottery players. And when I was at Cook for Good, I talked to Karen Materson, MBE, a woman who describes herself as a serial entrepreneur.

She has spent the last couple of years building a social enterprise that's since become a really important resource for the community around Islington's Priory Green Estate.

And actually when I spotted Karen in the reception at Cook for Good Fee, I realised immediately

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