A previous Cheap & Easy Cookery Workshop at the Central Methodist Church in Todmorden
All are invited to attend our last of five Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery Workshops (details below). Once again, we’ll be showing how to make several low-cost, healthy & easy-to-make plant-based dishes that minimise the food’s contribution to climate change… and maximise kindness. Free samples of the food prepared in the workshop will be offered to workshop participants along with recipes for each dish.
Saturday 26th April, Cheap & Easy workshop during Cornholme Community Day …
Our Cheap & Easy workshop will be held in Cornholme Old Library, I Parkside Road, Cornholme, OL14 8QA between 13:00 and 15:00 as part of the Cornholme Community Day. Between 12:00 and 13:00, we’ll also be providing some free mixed bean chilli lunches.
As you can see from the poster above, there’s a lot going on during the Community Day and it’s all free. Come and have fun whilst learning new skills.
All Cheap & Easy workshops have been supported by Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee
Help! We need some bodies.
Yes yours please! We really need helpers for the Cornholme Cheap & Easy workshop on 26th April and/or the lunch we’ll be serving. If you can spare any time to help between 11:00 and 15:00, please email info@3valleyvegns.org.uk. We would really appreciate it…and you’ll get fed too.
We’ve got two more of our free, and popular, Cheap & Easy Climate Emergency Cookery workshops coming up.
In them, we’ll be showing you how to make a number of low-cost, healthy & easy-to-make plant-based dishes that minimise the food’s contribution to climate change… and maximise kindness. You’ll be able to sample everything prepared and take away recipes for each dish. The next workshop is very soon…
Monday 31st March, Central Methodist Church, Todmorden
On Monday 31st March, we’ll be holding a Cheap & Easy workshop at Todmorden’s Central Methodist Church, Union Street, OL14 5AW. Together, we’ll prepare different dishes to those at our last workshop there.
Doors will open at 7.00 pm so you can browse stalls, be entertained with music and enjoy hot drinks. The cookery will start at 7.30pm, and the event closes at 9pm.
Because the event is being made possible with the support of Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee, all dishes will be cooked using lower energy appliances such as induction hobs, microwaves and air-fryers, and ingredients will be as low carbon as possible.
Saturday, 26th April 2025, Old Library, Cornholme
This Cheap & Easy workshop will be held during the daytime as part of a Community event being organised by Todmorden Town Council to support local people in growing their own food. We will be providing some free lunches for Cornholme residents as well as free samples of the food prepared in the workshop taking place before lunch.
Precise times for this workshop will be communicated in our next email newsletter (sign up for the newsletter here if not already subscribed) but it will be sometime in the morning and lunch will stretch into early afternoon.
Both workshops supported by Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee
Help! We need some bodies
Yes yours please! We really need helpers for our Cheap & Easy workshops, especially the one at Cornholme where we will also be catering for lunch on 26th April. If you can spare some time to help for all or part of the time, please email info@3valleyvegns.org.uk. We would really appreciate it…and you’ll probably get fed too.
A big thank you
A big thank you to the kind people who made donations to our crowdfunding appeal for match funding of our Cheap & Easy workshops. The fundraising page has now closed.
On Monday 25th November, a free Christmas cookery workshop will take place at Todmorden’s Central Methodist Church, Union Street, Todmorden, OL14 5AW, with free samples of food afterwards (not necessarily what you see in this photo of a vegan Christmas dinner in the past).
Cooking will happen on 5 separate tables around the room, and participants will be encouraged to move around the room, watch, ask questions and assist with chopping and stirring!
Because the event is being made possible with the support of Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee, all dishes will be cooked using lower energy appliances such as induction hobs, microwaves and air-fryers, and ingredients will be as low carbon as possible.
This event will feature examples of delicious festive vegan food which could be cooked at a mid-winter meal, and will be the third in a series of demonstrations in Todmorden organised by 3 Valley Vegans. Ferney Lee School was the venue for the second ‘Cheap and Easy Climate Emergency Cookery’ demonstration on Tuesday 1st October, when staff and local people gathered in the hall to watch simultaneous cookery demonstrations, listen to short talks and to share a plate of free food afterwards.
One of the dishes being prepared at the Ferney Lee workshop
Doors will open for the workshop on Monday 25th November at 7.00 pm, when there will be stalls, music and hot drinks served. The cooking will start at 7.30pm, and the event closes at 9pm.
There’s more information about the 3 Valley Vegans Cheap & Easy project here in a report about a past workshop in the series.
On Saturday 10th August, there were some delicious aromas wafting down the corridors of Todmorden College.
A free Cheap and Easy Cookery workshop was taking place – 9 food drop-in participants were learning how to make different dishes in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. People chopped and stirred, stories and recipes were swapped, and the end result was a smorgasbord, or perhaps a Buddha bowl which everyone sampled.
All recipes relied on basic sometimes tinned ingredients and supermarket donated vegetables, and were all plant-based. In addition, all dishes were cooked using lower energy appliances such as induction hobs, microwaves and air-fryers.
Dishes made were: hearty bean and vegetable soup, spicy fried potatoes, hot root vegetable salad, mushy pea dahl, cous cous, flatbreads and rainbow salad.
“Cheap and Easy Climate Emergency Cookery” is a pioneering series of workshops helping Todmorden residents struggling with the cost of living crisis to prepare healthy meals cheaply, quickly and easily.
Future workshops will continue to concentrate on wholefood plant-based meals that rely on low-cost, seasonal and readily available ingredients that make a much lower contribution to climate change than meat, dairy, egg and fish products. For some tips about how to eat plant-based food on a budget, you can read a blog we published a while ago here. It’s still very relevant.
All of the Cheap and Easy workshops are run by 3 Valley Vegans and are made possible with the support of Todmorden Town Council’s Climate Emergency Committee.
Under the terms of the project funding, there is a need for crowdfunding to cover a small element of the costs. If you’d like to make a donation, please go to https://app.goodhub.com/3-valley-vegans-11596 or scan the QR code below:
You don’t have to be a vegan to join us for this circular walk (just under 6 miles/ 3 hours including a stop for a bring-your-own vegan picnic). And if the going gets tough for you, there should be some shortcuts to be had. Likewise, there will be ways to take in part of the walk if the full walk is not for you.
The walk will include a labyrinth of hillside tracks, quiet lanes and towpath between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge. There should be some great views including an elevated view from ‘Lad Stones’ back over Todmorden with road, river and canal threading through it. You’ll see an unfinished straw bale building, a 1650 yeoman’s house and some remains of the water-powered mills and their associated workings that once made Jumble Hole Clough a centre of industry. You’ll also pass a small animal sanctuary.
The main part of the walk will start no later than 10:40 but see below for the earlier start in Todmorden town centre. Please gather at the picnic area/free car park on the left just after the 40 MPH signs on the Halifax Road to Hebden Bridge from Todmorden. From Hebden Bridge towards Todmorden, the picnic area/ car park is on the right just before the 30 MPH road signs. See the photo showing yellow low-headroom (2.1m) entrance/exit ‘barriers’.
Reaching the main starting point on foot from Todmorden library, Rochdale Road, OL14 7LB: meet Rob in the area between the library and the canal (see photo) at 10:00. We will walk briskly along the largely pleasant canal towpath for just over 1.5 miles to reach the start of the main walk.
Reaching the main starting point by bus from Todmorden: take the 592 from Todmorden Bus station at 10:30 hours and get off at the Horsfall Street bus stop just after railway arches on your left (and before the 40 MPH road signs).
Reaching the main starting pointby bus from Hebden Bridge: take the 590 from New Road (stop HB5) at 10:19 hours and get off at the Horsfall Street bus stop opposite railway arches on your right (after the 30 MPH road signs).
If you experience a short public transport delay, we will wait for you but only if you’ve shared your mobile number in advance when letting us know you are coming – see below.
Difficulty: moderate with possibly the steepest climb being from the car park at the start up to Rodwell End. That climb takes about 8 minutes at a steady pace without a stop. After that, it should take about an hour for the more gradual, but almost continuous, ascent to the summit of the walk up to Great Rock. The remainder of the walk is almost all on the descent or level(ish).
The terrain could be boggy, slippery and/or wet in places.
Great Rock
Booking is advisable so that we can let you know if there are any last-minute changes to the plan. Please email rob@3valleyvegns.org.uk to let him know that you’ll be coming, your mobile number and whether you will be joining the walk at the picnic area/car park on Halifax Road no later than 10:40 hours or at Todmorden Library no later than 10:00 hours. If you would like to know options to join part of the walk, email Rob about that too.
Stops: there will be a lunch stop. Bring your own food, drink and perhaps something to sit on. There are no shops or cafes on the route although the library is very near to Tod Almighty, Todmorden’s splendid vegan wholefoods shop . The shop’s opening hours on Sundays are 10:00 to 17:00 and so you will only be able to buy food from there after the walk.
Food & drink: please ensure that you have plenty of water and energy-giving snacks/fruits as well as your lunch. Out of respect for others on the walk, please only bring vegan food & drinks.
Attire: please wear waterproof walking boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Also bring waterproof & warm clothing even if the forecast is for good weather.
Dogs welcome: but note that there are two stiles en route and one of those is without a dog-pass (see photo). There are sheep and cows in some fields. Rabbits and deer have also been seen on this walk.
Walk with us at your own risk. There will be a guide but every person joining the walk will be responsible for their own safety. There will be no formal provision of first aid support.
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