2. What is Meal Makers? Meal Makers is a project which encourages and facilitates people to cook and share an extra portion of food with an older person living locally who could really benefit from a delicious, free, home cooked meal from a friendly neighbour.

3. How it works PVG Cook signs up and completes criminal record check and food hygiene test Local Recruiters find Diners and help to sign them up Cooks search for local Diners, Meal Makers team help make the match. Cook and Diner arrange a date and time for a meal share Cook delivers tasty home cooked meal to their diner

4. Long Term Benefits Tackle malnutrition Encourages intergenerational community cohesion Helps tackle the digital divide Reduce social isolation

5. Launch dates and progress so far Went live in Dundee:4 th August 2014 Went live in Glasgow:5 th January 2015 Went live in Perth & Kinross:8 th September 2015 807 Meals shared 441 hours of befriending 103 ‘Cooks’ and ‘Diners’ matched

6. Meal Makers in Pictures

7. Mapping the progress

8. Contact details  0800 783 7770  hello@mealmakers.org.uk  Room 28, Hydepark Business Centre, 60 Mollinsburn Street, Glasgow, G21 4SF www.mealmakers.org.uk