Nichola Cooke
I live here, moved here 10 years ago… I guess our roles here at The [Village] Hub are with with the food larder and food and development… We get deliveries from Fair Share and Tamar Grow Local, we put it in the larder and then people can buy it.
They can buy the food at 20p an item. And they can have up to 10 items. They become a member for £1 for life, that gives them access to the food larder. And eventually they start talking to us about what they’re cooking, what they’re doing with their food. And then that leads on to other conversations about them and their lives and sharing recipes.
You know, I’m quite artistic and creative. So I do a lot of that in my spare time. I like swimming, seeing my friends and family.. a lot of the stuff that I like to do is quite insular, that’s not a problem, I quite enjoy that as well. You know, it can be like that, like if you’re, if you’re around a lot of people all the time – your respite is your creativity… I like a lot of painting, abstract painting, pictures, cut outs. More recently, that’s moved on to like textiles, like learning how to do my sewing machine and stuff.
And, I like going away a lot in the camper, which I never thought I’d be into, ever! But it’s happened and it’s good.
When people look back on an archive, you generally sort of see, like, important people, do you know what I mean? And, I think it’s just nice to record people that are doing everyday things. That, you know, slowly do make a difference. And, I think, obviously, with people going through so much hardship right now, your normal everyday people, people that are working as well or struggling. So to see that and to have a record of that, I think is quite important.
I think there’s more of a class divide now than there ever has been. So, I just think that’s quite an important thing to be documenting and people responding to it.