Store full of help for youth

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A SUPERMARKET retailer has given a helping hand to young people with additional needs and disabilities.

Members of the Mahdlo Holiday Zone have attained AQA accreditation in basic cookery techniques, diet and health and bread-making.

Over the past two weeks, Tesco Chadderton has worked the youth club to host workshops on budgeting, going shopping, which ingredients to buy, nutrition, creating a recipe and other basic skills.

Tesco community champion Suzette Wright, who delivered the sessions, said: "I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the group. They were a little shy and nervous at the start, but seeing their confidence grow and them develop has been fantastic.

"I get so much out of doing workshops like this, it's such an enjoyable part of my job."

A group of young people were invited to browse the Chadderton store on Monday morning for their groceries ahead of a pizza-making session which earned them their bread-making award.

The Tesco visit was an opportunity for them to build on what they had learned in the previous weeks before putting their new-found skills into practice.

Gareth Nixon, Mahdlo's head of business development, said: "Supporting Mahdlo is more than financial support, it's about enabling opportunities and experiences to give young people new skills and inspire and motivate them. We want to say a huge thanks to Tesco for giving our members this opportunity. I am keen to talk to local businesses who would like to get involved in Mahdlo in any way."