Future hopes and Futureheads

THE Futureheads have been cooking up a storm in the kitchen ahead of a food event they are spearheading.

The four-piece, who help to organise the Split Festival, have teamed up with Sunderland City Council to hold Split Feastival, a food festival which will take place in Herrington Country Park from June 15 to 17.

A free event, the feastival promises the cream of the region’s food and drink from about 100 stalls.

In preparation for the three- day celebration of food, the band picked up some culinary tips from Create in Hendon.

Based in Lombard Street, Create teaches homeless people catering skills with a view to them gaining employment in the field.

In between getting his tartlets in the oven and doing that pinch thing with the salt, Ross Millard was hard at work at Create telling people what precisely was going on, and what it meant for the festival and the city as a whole.

“Well, Martin McFadden and Rob Deverson, heard about this organisation through Sunderland City Council, who we all work quite closely with now for Split Festival and Split Feastival, and they brought this amazing place to our attention. 

I don’t think there’s many places like Create in the country. Where people can come from all sorts of different backgrounds – homeless, unemployed, struggling domestically – and get completely retrained in three months and end up in the world of work pretty soon afterwards.

Read the full story from the Sunderland Echo here, read the interview with Ross Millard of Futureheads on Kyeo or take a peek at the day below…