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Spreading Love One Plate at a Time with Ark of Hope

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What happens when food becomes more than just sustenance, but a bridge connecting communities and celebrating cultures? Join us as we explore this transformative concept with our inspiring guests from Ark of Hope and Tasty Queens: Tosin, Stacey, and Nicola. Hear Tosin's inspiring journey from Nigeria to the UK, where she continues her family’s legacy of giving back by fostering unity through the power of food. As we highlight the origins and impact of Ark of Hope, you’ll also meet Tasty Queens, a sister organization devoted to culinary outreach and strengthening community ties.

Celebrating Black History Month in the UK, we focus on the often-overlooked contributions of Black culture, both historically and in modern times. This episode is a heartfelt tribute to trailblazers like Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and a reminder of the rich history symbolized by objects like cowrie shells. Learn about the various activities planned to recognize Black History Month, from honoring local charity workers to educational initiatives in schools, and discover how these efforts inspire greater community engagement and participation.

Finally, enjoy an enchanting tale of dining at Buckingham Palace and uncover a delightful secret about the King’s fondness for Nigerian jollof rice. Through stories of community building and cultural appreciation, Nicola and Stacia share their passion for food and service, elucidating the power of friendship and community spirit in places like Hattersley. This episode is a celebration of love, culture, and the shared stories that unify us all, leaving listeners with a sense of warmth and hope.

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Mark:

Welcome to Hats Chats and Giggles podcast. I'm your host, mark, and today we have a very, very special episode in celebration of Black History Month here in the UK. Black History Month is a time to honour, celebrate and reflect on the incredible contributions of Black Britons in our nation's history and culture. It's a moment to amplify Black voices, share untold stories and work to a more inclusive future. In that spirit, we're thrilled to welcome three remarkable guests from Ark of Hope Tosin, stacey and Nicola. Ark of Hope is an organisation dedicated to sharing love, peace, unity and food all on the same plate. Welcome to the studio, thank you, thank you. So first off, introduce yourselves.

Tosin:

My name is Tosin, I'm from Ark of Hope and I live Hattersley in Tameside.

Mark:

And who else have we got Hi?

Stacey:

I'm Stacey,

Stacey:

my name's Nicola. We are also A Archive Hope slash Tasty Queens.

Mark:

Tasty Queens.

Stacey:

Yes.

Mark:

So explain to us, Ark of Hope Tosin, what's it all about. Explain what your mission and your vision is.

Tosin:

Well, ark of Hope is about supporting our community, lifting our community up and coming together to be stronger. We also support vulnerable people and less privilege, and our sister's group as well is Tasty Queen. Tasty Queen are like sisters from HArk of hope a we work together, we support each other, we support our community and we're looking forward to start our outreach.

Mark:

Let me just inform you listeners, if you can hear someone snoring in the background, we've got a little sleeping beauty who's been working very hard and we don't want to wake her up. So don't be alarmed. We can deal with it like so you can as well how does arc of hope, how does arc of hope, contribute to the community?

Tosin:

we are now arriving to inside and we want to give back to our community and I used to be one of the groups that goes to CES, the hub. That was in 2016. Then there's also another community group and I had a few women coming to say they haven't eaten for a while. I mean that they need a toast and the kids need toast as well. So I spoke to the coordinator Her name is Julie, I have food at home. Can I go and make fried rice and chicken? And she asked if I had food hygiene and so on, which I did, and I did. So she said well, everyone would be glad if I could make fried rice. So I went to Tesco in Hatchesley to get the chicken and I went home and I made fried rice like I think I made six kg that day Chicken fried rice and they were all happy and we love my community. We love to give back. So that's how Foucault started in artistry.

Mark:

Right, so that was where it all started out.

Tosin:

Yeah.

Mark:

And it's grown to this.

Tosin:

Yes.

Mark:

So, for the benefit of the listeners, we're in the meeting point we've set up in the corner, but in the kitchen you might be able to hear them. They're all busy cooking there. What are they cooking today?

Tosin:

Today we are cooking a Zimbabwe South African dish, which is a chakalaka pap and beef stew with cabbage.

Mark:

Ooh, sounds nice. Can I have some of that in a bit, of course, okay, thank you. Where did you get the nam AkAr a H from, or how's it?

Tosin:

I'll say the name Aka Hope is spiritually inspired by one of my mentor, Mr Pius Badijo. He's my mentor and a supporter and while I was thinking what name will I give the organization, he asked me who do I want to support? Then I said many people. And he also said is it only for, uh, african caribbean community? I said no, for everybody. So something like Noah's ark. With Noah's ark in the bible, every animal comes along right, right, nice, nice.

Mark:

So let's move on to the Tasty queens. Tell us about the tasty queens. What is a tasty queen?

Stacey:

So we actually came cooking one Thursday about three years ago and we became quite good friends. We decided not long ago that we wanted to give out to people that are vulnerable, so we came up with an idea of if we try and get funding from somewhere that we can feed people that are less fortunate. We toyed with the idea of the name. We came up with the name of Tasty Greens and we're taking it from there. Hopefully Things are moving forward. We've been to a few events so far, so it's been good Slowly getting our name out there. Yeah.

Mark:

Yeah, well, hopefully we can try and promote it through the podcast. Really, we're going to put some links in Back to you. Tosin, Can you share a bit about your personal background?

Tosin:

My personal background. I'm from a town in Nigeria called Ibado Ibado is one of the largest cities in West Africa and my parents my mom she's Stella Lanley, and my dad is Chief Samuel Owola Lanley. My dad was a politician. He was the founding member of the Battle of People's Party. He was also an eye chief. I also came from the background of warriors and we liked to get things done. My grandmother was Beatrice Onoyemi Adelaja. She likes cooking and she likes supporting our community. So I would say I got most of my charity background from my grandma and my dad. My dad also supports. While he was alive he's always getting someone to cook for the community every Friday in a wedding. So from left and right I'll say I come from charity family. My parents brought me to Great Britain my mum in 1996, and I went to college and from there I used to live in London for like 28 years before I moved down to North Wales because my landlord increased the rent from £650 to £1,250, which I can't afford.

Tosin:

So, I moved up here and my mom came to join me from Dublin because she used to live in Dublin as well and I was looking for property for my mum and we came to V1 in Artisley and I could hear the boats singing. It's been a long time since I heard the boats singing and everywhere went nice and I said mum, I'm coming, so I couldn't wait for my reign to expire where I used to live, in Mostyn. So now, as soon as it expired, I moved to Achtusley and I won't live anywhere else and I loved it.

Mark:

Thank you, achtusley oh, that's great, that's amazing.

Tosin:

So you're a warrior no, I came from a generation of.

Mark:

Warriors.

Tosin:

Mm-hm, not me.

Stacey:

She's a warrior.

Mark:

You are a warrior though she's an amazing woman. She's always got. If anyone's ever met Toastie, she's always got a smile on her face, even when she was poorly. She was poorly about six months ago, or probably longer, and she still had a smile on her face. I couldn't believe it. So, anyway, let's move on. So um so, it's black, black history month this month. What's the importance of black history month for you in society?

Tosin:

um. The importance of black history month to me is just to like people coming together. There's too much sadness in the world, too much war. People just want to come together, celebrate each other, have fun, have a little bit of sly dance and appreciate those who have been doing good, working good in our community, showing appreciation. That's what our Black History Month is about in Ackerville.

Mark:

I kind of feel like I mean I had this question with someone I was talking to last night and I kind of think I mean I'm a non-Black, I'm a white person. I think it's important to raise awareness to other people about the things Black culture has brought to me, particularly to England. So, that's where I'm coming from. How about you? What do you think?

Stacey:

I think you're right, especially since Jollof Rice. We can't live without it. But no, you're definitely right, we do need to learn about different people's cultures, especially black history. My husband's from Africa too.

Mark:

Right.

Stacey:

So it's good to learn about things like that.

Mark:

What's your focus for this year's celebration? Do you have one, or are you just carrying on doing what you do?

Tosin:

This year's celebration we have a focus. We're going to tell the history of carousels and how we use it for currency in Africa, before they arrive with a pile of paper and coins. We're also going to celebrate charity workers who have given a lot to our community a dedicated member of the community in Tameside as well. We're also going to give gifts to our schools.

Mark:

Just to clarify what you just said there. What did you say about it used to replace currency? What was that?

Tosin:

Right in the olden days, cowrie shells is currency. Before they arrived it was all paper money and metal coins. In Africa we use curry shells as a currency.

Mark:

Wow, I never knew that that's everyday skill day here and that's chats and giggles. Can you tell me who your black inspirational person is?

Tosin:

Who inspires you? My black inspirational person is Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She's a Nigerian economist. She's a special envoy to mobilize international economic support. She works with the World Trade Organization and she's serving as the Director General of World Trade Organization. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Mark:

Okay, and what is it that? Why does she inspire you?

Tosin:

One. She inspires me because she's a woman. She encourages me. She inspires me because she's a woman. She encourages me. She breaks all barriers we have loads of negativity about Nigerians and for being a woman in the midst of men something she has break barriers honestly. She works very hard.

Mark:

I don't even actually know anything about her, but I'm going to look up, I'm going to go home and look it up.

Speaker 4:

On that note, we're just going to go for a break. The Hottest Look Hub is offering a wide range of activities at the moment. On Mondays there's a baby-friendly fitness class 10am to 11.30. Bowling 12 to 4pm and ESOL English lessons 10am to 11.30am. Tuesdays there's a fantastic art club 10am to 1pm for people of all skill levels and the first Tuesday of the month they have Makers Market 9.30 to 12 for local crafters in the community. Wednesday has an Overs 50s IT club 1pm to 3pm. Knit and knot at 9.30 to 12.30. The Ivy Club 1pm to 4pm, tai Chi 2pm to 3pm and curling sessions 1pm to 2pm. On Thursdays there's line dancing 12.30 to 2pm in the afternoon. The last Thursday of the month has a careers respite drop-in session available 12.30 to 3pm. Friday has citizens advice available on site 9 to 11.30 and there's a mental health social group 1.30 to 3pm that people can pop along for a brew as well as more bowls 12 till 3. They do struggle getting out to people what's available. So where would you go to find out what's going on in the area? Drop us a vice note and give us a call.

Speaker 4:

Community Garden and the Hattersley Projects is at the Community Garden in the centre of the estate. They run all sorts of growing activities throughout the year and they are always open at the weekend 12-2. Coming up there will be new Forest School sessions available from Easter and they will reopen the Garden Centre on the 9th May for the summer months. There are also more community activities at the meeting point next to St Barnabas Church, slimming World on Monday 6pm to 8.30pm. Hattersley Health, champions Craft and Music Group on Tuesday, 1.30pm to 5.30pm. Cook and Taste with Toast on Thursday, 11.30pm to 1.3030pm and the third Thursday of the month they also hold Parkinson's and Dementia Cafe 1.30pm to 3.30pm Every Friday.

Speaker 4:

The Food Bank 9.00pm to 11.00pm. Bread and Butter 1.00pm to 2.00pm and Citizens Advice 10.00pm to 2.00pm are presented to help the local community and citizens of Rice 10 to 2 are presented to help the local community. Kickboxing is on Sundays, 5 to 6pm, not to mention monthly litter pickers on the last Tuesday of the month, organised by the Hattersley Environment Action Team, 10.30 to 12.30am. Parent and Toddlers Group at the Harrab Church on Mondays 9-11. Football session for the kids on Tuesday at Kenmore 5-6pm and Mind have A Community Hive for young people between 8 and 18 on Monday nights at the Old Air Cadet Building 4-8pm.

Mark:

Well, thanks for that. There's loads going on, isn't there? How about that? Welcome back folks. We're here, we're at the Ark of Hope in Hattersley with Tosin, nicola, stacey and Stacer, and if you can hear the snorer in the background, it's a little sleeping beauty, a little fairy that's asleep in the rafters. Getting back to where we was, what other work do you do, tosin? Tell us about some of the other work that you do.

Tosin:

We do African cultural food. Currently we're doing sewing class and in the past we also teach our community about African tie-dye batik which everyone of us loves. In fact, people are still stopping me to have some more, and about two or three communities have invited me to come to their community and teach them how to do the African tie-dye. I'm out to do the African tie-dye. We estimated about 20 people turning up, but at the end I think we have 50. It was good. Wow, even after we've done the evaluation, we still have about 30 more that we did. People continue to ask for more, so it was a success, thank you. Over to ask for more. So it's resource access, thank you.

Mark:

Over to you girls. So do you volunteer at that alcohol?

Stacey:

We help out whenever Tulsa needs help, so it's not a set thing. We do it's whenever help's needed. We're here to help. Might even just be nipping down and picking up smoke plenty.

Mark:

What days are you here? Can anyone join in?

Tosin:

Yeah, it's free for anybody to join in Most of our workers on Thursday. We do Thursday 11, 30 to 2. We do a cookery section that anybody can come and learn how to cook or teach us their own recipe. It's free and, thanks to the award, we awarded the cooking section. So we have £30 to buy the ingredients that we need and we got to take the food home.

Mark:

Right, you get to take the food home. So if anyone's interested in getting involved, if you look in the podcast description, I'm going to leave you all the details of what I hope are doing in the area at the moment and how to get involved.

Mark:

But, let's go back. Let's get back to celebrating the Black History Month. You talked about your black historical figure and I thought about my figure. I was thinking about it last night and I was thinking about, is it James Brown? And then I realized no, it's not, it's Stormzy. I'm not really into Stormzy as an artist. I like some of his music but I really like what he has done, not only for the black community but for grime and the music scene and for the underprivileged, and what he's done with it, with his money, and that's why he's up there in my eyes as a black icon. So what about you girls? Have you got any any black influential people who inspire you in any way?

Stacey:

for us in our house. We're reds, so we're all reds, we're all reds. So, um, my boys are really, really into marcus rashford, but not just because he's a footballer, because he does so much for the yes, we're all Reds, we're all Reds. So my boys are really, really into Marcus Rashford, but not just because he's a footballer, because he does so much for the community too. He's got a Wythenshawe background. Even his mum. She helps out a great deal. What's the charity that he did at school? Fair Share, that's it.

Mark:

He held our lovely Tory government to account, didn't he? As well and he does done quite a lot.

Stacey:

He really is an amazing lad. Yeah, he is amazing.

Mark:

And how about you no?

Stacey:

My mind's blank. There's so many inspiring people.

Mark:

There is so many inspiring people. So what do you think? Yartos and you listen to this, get on this one. What do you think some of the challenges that are facing the black community in the uk and how is?

Tosin:

it. Well, there's a lot of challenges facing the black community in artistry. Although some of them are not coming out to say they just come to me and report it is either from the neighbor that will harass them or where they're doing, parking their car, the parking space. There's lots of harassments in schools calling the children names in school, the hand ward, and I just believe that there's only one race, which most people don't understand, and all race come from a black woman and it's only black women that have the HIV gene. There's something they call the HIV gene. When you have the HIV gene, you can give back to any race. So all race actually come from a black woman somewhere from Africa, and I think people need there's more awareness to be created, needs more diversity and more cohesion.

Mark:

Do you think that's why we need to have a black history month? Do you think that helps to break down some of these differences?

Tosin:

Yes, but actually most people don't even know that black history month existed because they've covered it with Halloween, halloween, halloween yeah. People remember Halloween, but they don't remember black history month. People remember Halloween, but they don't remember Black History Month. So that's one of the things we were thinking of. Probably something has to be done so they create more awareness.

Mark:

I think that's the thing is about creating more awareness. I like to say hate less love more. Make peace, not war and spread only love people.

Tosin:

That's what I'm saying.

Mark:

How do you think our ARCA Hope is doing anything to address some of these issues?

Tosin:

Our ARCA Hope is doing a lot by bringing more people together. No matter your background, we don't discriminate. Everybody's welcome, matter what your age, whether you're green, yellow, black, orange, purple with the mind, just come, don't be lonely, come out, come and feel merry. Whatever we're doing here in knack of wolf, we are doing it with love oh, that sounds great.

Mark:

so, nicola stacy, come on, let's have your a bit of your input. Tell us a bit more about your group, tasty Queen's Outreach.

Stacey:

Yeah, so we actually have a Facebook group as well. We obviously we've not been, we've not started long, but we're hoping to get out there. Like I said, we've been to a charity event called Sertal School was it on Saturday? Music School, music School, music School. So we did. Tosin made some lovely African food, as she always does. We was just there to help serve.

Tosin:

We was also and dance.

Stacey:

Oh yeah, we did some dancing. We did some dancing. There was some people, they cooked some Bengali food as well.

Mark:

Nice.

Stacey:

Yeah, it was actually a really good event. We also have an event coming up on the 12th of October, which is again celebrating Black History Month. It's more like a family fun day, isn't it? This will be at St Barnabas Church. Again, everybody's welcome. It's a free event, so if anyone wants to come, it's from two till six.

Mark:

Hopefully this podcast will go out before that.

Stacey:

No worries.

Mark:

But we'll have to see. But if not, that gives us an idea of what you do. So what's your bigger vision for Tasty Queen?

Stacey:

Right. So obviously we love to cook and one day we're saying what if we could cook for people that don't have hot food? And then that's kind of where the name came from. Everyone deserves a tasty meal, no matter who you are, where you are.

Mark:

And then we're some of the best, so that's why we're queens.

Tosin:

Queens, obviously.

Stacey:

But, yeah, we want to set up the weekly drop-in, don't we? Yeah, and then, once funding gets better, we'll be able to do the weekly drop-off as well. For those who can't actually get to us, we can go to them. We've actually got family members that work at Hyde United as well and they've kindly offered us to serve food from there. Is it it on a Wednesday? Yeah, wednesday afternoon, wednesday afternoon. So once everything starts getting put into place properly, then we can advertise it more.

Mark:

But yeah, hopefully, Tell us about your background somewhere. Go on, Nicola, you first. How have you ended up here?

Stacey:

So originally. Well, I've lived all over me. I've lived in Stockport you know it's new name, it but we've been friends. Oh God, I don't know how many years we're coming up 13. Yeah, 13 years we've been friends. I can't remember. Did we see this cooking session on Facebook? I think I saw it. I missed the first week because I forgot. So we ended up coming to the St Barnabas church.

Stacey:

Like I said, three years ago we didn't know anybody and Tolson's like hi, come in, welcome, you know like she always welcomes everybody, and we've just been coming ever since, really right, so you're kind of inspired by Tolson really oh yeah, she's an amazing woman. She really is she's always got a smile on her face and selfless yes.

Mark:

She is she is. And them dumplings. Thank you If you could I don't know how- to describe it. If you could describe it for your ears, your ears would be dripping with joy. So I like the way that you've.

Mark:

So you've come here to the toaster's cooking group yeah and that has inspired you to set set yeah and then toasting, supporting yes, yes I think that's a lovely bit of like community work, yeah, and the kind of stuff that this podcast why we've created this podcast is to give a platform for yourselves and to celebrate these great things going on in the community. We so often hear negative things about Attersley. You know what I mean. You hear about all the negative stuff that the press might pick up and paint a picture, but the truth- is when you get here, we're surrounded, we're next to the moors. It's quite a beautiful place.

Stacey:

It's beautiful. All the greenery and wildlife it is, it is.

Mark:

And there's lots and lots of lovely people.

Stacey:

You don't have to be from Hattersley because we're not from Hattersley. I live in Newton, stacey lives in Audenshaw, but you know it's only like five minutes away from each other.

Mark:

No, and the beautiful thing about Hattersley is when it was built originally, everyone was a comer in it. Anyway, everyone came from Manchester when they knocked down the slums.

Tosin:

Yeah.

Mark:

If you listen to some of our earlier podcasts. You, when they knocked down the slums. Yeah, if you listen to some of our earlier podcasts you'll listen to the experiences of them people and that's just a been a. It's been just a continuous exodus.

Tosin:

Yeah to hatters, let, and we're all here yeah, we're all here.

Mark:

We're all going to eat some of tosins food in a bit as well, which is going to make it even better. So you've discussed where you're going to go in the future. Yeah, if anyone wanted to get involved in in the tasty queens what, what we have a facebook page, right, um, that has all our info on.

Stacey:

you can email, you can call, you can message and then we'll can keep you in the loop of where we're progressing to, because I know the Hyde Mellor. A few weeks back there was a few that wanted to help out because they couldn't offer anything else, and that's perfectly fine. We've finally convinced Tulsa we can accept donations, but even helping serving that helps.

Mark:

Yep, so if anyone's got any way, they want to contribute, whether they want to donate a load of money or stuff like that, or whether they want to donate something even worth more than money, and that's time. Yeah, have you got any personal stories or experience that have happened? Some great things that have happened while you've been here, that you is there, anything that you can really shines out there. I know you're proud of your tie-dye and stuff.

Tosin:

I know that's good, but there are lots of things I don't know where to start from. When I arrive in Hattiesley, I'm very surprised. The community are friendly. I feel like I'm in the midst of my family in Hattiesley and they don't discriminate against me personally. I was welcome and they were supporting me throughout the way till I settled down in Artisley At the hope. They supported me and everything. So another thing is when I wanted to did my registration, I wanted to pay my for my nanny registration because I'm a nanny by profession. I want to pay for Hofstede and it's 103 and at that time I don't have one pound. So I went to the hub and I spoke to Sam Cooper it was Sam Cooper then and they said they will support me and they helped me pay for the off-state registration. They were pick-valid then, before they changed to Homeward, and I was very happy. Honestly, I was happy. I won't forget and since then I've been saying to myself you need to give back to the community, you need to give back to them.

Stacey:

You give more than back. You give more than back.

Mark:

For any listeners that don't know and are not aware about the great work that toasting contributes to this community. You can find out. You can go on the Facebook page, if you look in our podcast description. I'm going to leave all the links so you can find out some more, as well as the Tasty Queen. I've only just found out about his myself today, so thanks for coming in thanks for having me who are we going to give shouts out to? Who's helped you? Come on, let's name some names, let's drop some names samantha power.

Mark:

Thank you, award-winning samantha well done well done amazing woman.

Tosin:

Well done, don, well done sharon, sharon. Powers supporting me keep encouraging me anytime I want to give up. She said to us and go and do the application. And some powers have been helping me and done to to write the application. I don't like writing it's like writing.

Tosin:

It's my biggest challenge. They've supported me, they've encouraged me and I'll say a big thank you to Homeworld and Tenside and Tenside Community Safety and Action Together. Dawn is also very good. She's very good as well. Dawn acts and she encourages me as well. So I'll say a big thank you and when I say, I'm going to give you a big hug.

Mark:

Oh, I think she's going to cry. Thank you.

Tosin:

And Val. She's a good grandmother, Val, but she's always there to encourage me and my two sisters, Anne and Lynn. I have loads of sisters from another mother that are making it successful.

Mark:

Yeah, that's to all you people who are out there supporting Tosin's work. Thanks for coming in everyone. I think I'm going to close it. Have you got anything else you want to say?

Stacey:

I just wanted to point out. Recently we had Volunteer Month and Tosin got Longstanding Volunteer Award. She did An amazing moment.

Mark:

That just goes to show how happy you are.

Stacey:

Yeah, she did. We even supported her on that night. That was actually a good one that just you know, it goes to show how happy you are. Yeah, she did. She doesn't like this spotlight on her. That was actually a good one, I was so happy.

Tosin:

They supported me. I was happy because I wasn't expecting it. I wasn't expecting the award, so I was happy when I got it. And another shock was when I got an invitation later to come to the King's Palace, to come to Buckingham. Palace for dinner with the King. Imagine you and your husband went, didn't you? So we went to London.

Mark:

Right, what was it like, did you?

Tosin:

meet him? Yes, we met him, but we were not allowed to take pictures and we got to dance to the King's Orchestra position playing and it was a good dinner we enjoyed ourselves.

Stacey:

There's also a big secret, isn't there, Tosin? What does the king love? Nigerian jollof rice.

Tosin:

Yes, yes, well, I'm not the one that said it.

Mark:

The king said Nigeria has the best jollof rice. Well, he should know. I mean, he'd probably been over there a few times. Well, listen, thanks for coming in. I've really enjoyed this conversation and I've learnt a lot more. But, like I say, it's Black History Month and over this past year we've seen plenty of challenges over some of the ignorance towards our black community and I just want to repeat again hate less, love more, make peace, not war, and spread only love, folks.

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