Many a sweet tooth 
at Telford College       

By Kirsten Gray RONA PERKINS, a lecturer at Edinburgh’s Telford College, works with a group of catering students with learning disabilities. Twice a week they attend the college — one day to prepare food such as delicious soups and scones, and the second to sell it to staff and students in the college’s Tolbooth Cafe. As last year’s class helped our CHAS appeal by making and selling tablet, Rona suggested to this year’s new group that they might like to do the same. It wasn’t long before they’d mastered the art of creating mouth-watering tablet. After taking samples round the college to encourage people to come and buy, the students set about producing 800 bars which they could sell for 50p a piece. And there must be more than a few people with a sweet tooth at Telford College. Because over just three days of selling, the group cleared an impressive £425. “It’s no problem selling tablet in Scotland,” laughs Rona. “The only problem is that we all put on pounds in weight! The students are delighted. They just wanted to help make the new hospice a happy place for kids.”

You can e-mail us at: hospice@sundaypost.com