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Young Pimlico chefs cook up a storm
Budding chefs have been learning how to cook up a storm at a Pimlico youth club.
Cookery classes started at St Andrew's Youth Club, in Old Pye Street, teaching youngsters how to prepare tasty, nutritious meals.
Youth workers also use the sessions to engage young people on a host of other issues from body image and weight to bullying and street crime.
The project was launched as a pilot for the first time last year, and proved hugely popular with the club's 700 members, attracting all ages from nine to 19-year-olds.
Celebrity chef Phil Vickery recently popped along to join in with a class.
Naomi Roper, development management at St Andrew's, said: "The cookery project has been a real success since it started in 2009 and I know that every member of the club will be thrilled to hear that we can continue to cook on throughout 2010."
Classes will run every Wednesday throughout the year, made possible through a £5,000 grant from Land Securities.
The money will go towards paying for equipment, ingredients and tuition for the lessons at St Andrew's, which is the oldest youth club in the world and Westminster mayor Cllr Duncan Sandys' chosen charity of the year.
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