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Name: | Ali Imdad |
Age: | 26 |
Year of the Fix: | 2014 |
Location: | Birmingham |
Campaign: | To encourage students to swap takeaways for home cooked food |
When I was a student a few years ago, I found a lot of my peers would live off takeaways and unhealthy tinned foods as they felt they were convenient and cheap options.
But, when I made my own meals, my housemates and friends would come down and join me and it would actually be a much more sociable experience.
I want to show young people that cooking doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive. Anyone can do it and it can be cost effective.
With Fixers, I’ve created a recipe pack. Each dish will feed an entire student house and can be made using only basic equipment and ingredients that cost less than a fiver.
I hope to send the packs to universities so they can be given out to students who are living away from home and on a budget.
* Note: Fixers sometimes go beyond the 16-25 year age bracket while working on their Fix.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with my Fix:
Alex Hadleigh | Ben Fitton | Caroline Monohlani |
Charlotte Spence | Cornelia Busl | Donna Cheetham |
Elaa Darbyshire | Elizabeth Roberts | Ella Darbyshire |
Felipe Cappato | Felipe Sturgis | Georgie Agar |
Hannah Glass | Hannah Haywood | Hassan Chowdhury |
Heena Imdad | Hina Tahir | Hinna Qazi |
Jeanicka McCalla | Jhon Lewis | Joshua Joseph |
Julis Burton | Kane Willis | Karishma Chauhan |
Keturah Prendergatt | Lauren Tuxford | Leah Scarpiuato Medway |
Lea Weiss | Lyly Ngoy | Maria Jan |
Martin Preece | Mathieu Marchand | Molly Wortley |
Natasha Edwards | Oliver Corrigan | Ricky Bains |
Salma Adamu | Sana Hasan | Sandra Molloy |
Shafayath Ali | Shainya Peters | Shalin Victor |
Sharfel Hlikes | Tanzeel Qureshi | Thomas Simons |
Waqas Younis | Wilfred Gilbert |
My Fixers project was supported by the Cabinet Office’s Youth Social Action Fund.
As part of the Cabinet Office initiative ‘Step Up to Serve’, which is spearheaded by HRH the Prince of Wales, Fixers is working in partnership with the Youth Social Action Fund (YSAF) to offer the Fixer experience specifically to young people aged between 16 and 20 in Birmingham and parts of Kent.
Birmingham City University Students' Union
BCUSU support my Fix. They helped recruit students to participate in focus groups and provided a location for photos to be taken for my recipe pack.
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham are backing my Fixers project. The launch event for my recipe pack was held there.
October 2014
I was featured on BBC One during a Great British Bake Off catch-up episode. Click on the image below to watch the programme.
May 2014
My student recipe packs have been launched at another university. I held a demo and cake tasting session at the University of Leicester on Thursday 8th May.
The team from The Great British Bake Off attended. As a former contestant, they wanted to film me at the event for their 'Class of 2013' episode.
Ali Imdad holds a baking demonstration at the University of Leicester.
March 2014
I held a launch event for my ‘Bake Five’ recipe packs at the University of Birmingham on Thursday 27th March.
After the cookery demonstrations, the students were able to taste the food to see if they’d fancy trying the recipes at home.
Fixer Ali Imdad launches his recipe packs at the University of Birmingham.
Jo Quinn
Ben Simms
Mason Latey
Tilly and Bella
Shano
Jack H
Sam Womack
Macauley Collinson
Alexandra Garrick
Fern Lulham
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Sam Barakat
Hannah Carter
Chelsie Brown
Ethan Mcinally
Shannon Rawlings
Liam Thomas
'Ben'
Jade Kingdom
Becky Thorn
Lauren Taylor
Meghann
Becky
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Kiki
Shak & Natasha