As part of my research I have been in contact with Judith McGarty, she runs not for profit adult training schemes called Inspired Stockport and has recently been working with Chelwood food bank running a computer course. I was interested to find out what response she had had for her course as I thought this would help me to decide on the direction I should take for my future work with the food bank clients, I was shocked to hear that she had only one person stay for a session on the first week and then none for the next three sessions at which stage they made the decision to abandon the course, I asked her why she thought this had happened she said this had been a learning curve for her and although some of the clients had shown an interest in the classes they had travelled by bus to get to the food bank and had commitments and were keen not to miss their return bus others showed an interest but didn’t feel they could commit at this time.

Although this wasn’t the news I was hoping for this revelation has defiantly made me think I need a back up plan …