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Jenny Horner
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Jenny works with young people in the locality many of whom come from families working in agriculture or for local food manufacturers. She has organised activities involving young people in support of the Taste of the Town Exhibitions. Her work includes giving advice on healthy eating and she provides the refreshments for the young people who visit the Sexual Health for Youth Clinic. Her passion is collecting cookery books. Jenny's was raised in St.
Helens, her father having worked on the land. They grew all their
own vegetables and Jenny remembers how everybody was involved
in digging and wrapping the tomatoes up in paper to store them.
Jenny still digs, grows and plants out in her own garden. When
she was due to leave school the family arranged a job at Pilkington's
for her. She worked there for a number of years, arranging visits
and setting up meetings for members of the Company travelling
overseas. This work took her all around the world. |
| She married Jed and moved to Milnthorpe in Cumbria when they began their family. There she learned the pleasure of walking in the mountains She worked for the Cumbria Youth Service and was involved in Guiding. When the family moved to Market Drayton Jenny became a part time youth worker locally. She went on to qualify as a counsellor on a course at Keele University. Jenny has organised the SHY outreach clinic for the last 9 years. Together with a practice nurse and a support worker/receptionist she provides informal help and advice on health and other concerns to young people. Jenny is based for much of her week at the Grove School where she acts as counsellor. She set up and organises the Grove Connex Mentoring scheme and has recruited 45 mentors from the locality to support 62 young people. The scheme has extended to working with primary school children and staging student led events. She also works as counsellor at Walford and North Shropshire College and is the Youth Worker attached to the County Tuition, medical and behavioural support service. In 2001 Jenny was awarded the MBE for her services to young people. When she was young Jenny was given an 1870 cookbook by her grandmother. It was filled with fabulous adverts and described how to cook everything and get cured at the same time. Wherever she has travelled she has picked up a cookbook. After a late night at work she will sit down with a cup of tea to read one. She likes cooking but enjoys reading about how different dishes are made and capturing the favours imaginatively. Jenny has hundreds of cookery books and treasures her collection. |
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Jenny hopes to draw from the network interest in the Grove Connex Mentoring
Scheme and the work of the SHY clinic. |
Jenny offers a link between the community and young people locally. She also
offers access for young people to services available to them. She is happy to
hear from others interested in cookery books. |
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Contact Details:
E-mail: jenny@processplant.freeserve.com