Local MSP Claire Baker this week visited the Dalgairn Centre in Cupar to take part in their ‘Come Dine With Me’ project for service members.

Service members serve up lunch for each other, Ms Baker and staff in the centre as members learn how to prepare meals independently.

The centre in Bank Street aims to enable people with a learning disability to live an independent, self-fulfilling life. It aims to link members to the local community along with providing personal support and information.

The centre also wants to ensure its members has an environment that is both challenging and stimulating with the aim for members to ‘develop, maintain and acquire social, cognitive, leisure and creative skills’.

Speaking after the visit, Claire Baker MSP said:

“It was great to be invited along to the Dalgairn Centre and take part in their Come Dine With Me project. It was clear to see that the members of the centre had a great time and thoroughly enjoy the opportunities afforded to them here.

The opportunity to live a positive independent life, where one is in charge of their own decisions, is a life that we all aspire to. The Dalgairn Centre allows that aspiration to come true for many people, in Cupar and the surrounding areas, who otherwise may be left in isolation from an everyday life that we take for granted.

This is in a large part down to the dedicated and hardworking staff who have the aims of the centre at heart and work tirelessly towards ensuring their members feel part of the community.

It is important that services such as Dalgairn Centre get the support and help that they need to ensure that the remain at the heart of local communities helping local residents.”