The Golden Years Club cooks up a storm

Descriptor: First we meet the four students from the University of Gloucestershire who made this film, sitting inside a small cinema-style room. As Lex speaks, we see the students move from seat to seat in time lapse shots. As they move to different seats, one by one each student comes to the front and introduces themselves and tells us what contribution they made to the film, before we see a rear view of them sitting in the cinema, looking at the screen.

Lex: We're all student film makers from the University of Gloucestershire, on the second year of our film production course. We made a short film about a luncheon club for the elderly, that's been helped by lottery funding. I'm Lex, the director.

Sam: I'm Sam, the producer.

Tom: I'm Tom, the sound recordist.

Dan: And I'm Dan, the camera operator and this is what we shot.

Descriptor: We now see a blue map of the UK on a red graphic background, which zooms to Gloucester on the map, where a white caption reads, "Stroud Road Golden Years Club, Lottery Funding - £62k". We then see a wide shot of the Golden Years Club, with cars passing in the foreground, before seeing interior shots of the club, with tables being set with cutlery. We then see Reverend Scott walking towards the camera and into the building.

Narrator: For twenty years the Golden Years Club has helped draw members of the Gloucestershire community together. However, without funding raised through the sale of National Lottery games, volunteers like the Reverend Cyrus Scott would have been unable to continue the club's good work. Descriptor: We now meet Reverend Scott, a Senior Member at Golden Years, who is sitting at a desk. As he speaks we see various shots of members of the club sitting at a table, eating a meal.

Reverend Scott: The Golden Years Club is a group of Afro-Caribbean, ah. We provide hot meals, get them out of isolation. You would be surprised to see how much they appreciate the Afro-Caribbean meals (laughter).

Descriptor: We now see two large pots on a cooker, before focusing in on some meat frying in a pan.

Narrator: The goodwill continues into the kitchen with volunteer chefs who work out the menu.

Descriptor: We are now introduced to Mrs Anderson who is a chef at Golden Years, and describes what she is cooking. As she speaks, we see various shots of her preparing and cooking the food.

Mrs Anderson: I'm doing some curried goat and white rice, boiled rice and some boiled potato. And for those people that, em, don't like goat we're doing some fish as well.

Descriptor: Once again we meet Reverend Scott, who explains why The National Lottery funding was so important. As he speaks, we once again see women in the kitchen, preparing and cooking the food.

Reverend Scott: Why was lottery funding necessary? We needed a new kitchen, everything start falling down, the, ah, the cookers was, ah, outdated.

Descriptor: We now meet Mrs Johnson and Mrs Anderson, two of the kitchen staff, who describe what the kitchen was like before The National Lottery funding. As they speak, we see them putting food onto plates and serving a member of the club.

Mrs Johnson: It wasn't stainless steel, it was wood.

Mrs Anderson: That unit, nothing like what is in here now.

Mrs Johnson: And they start to break down you know, the drawers fall out and so (laughter) this is... God given.

Mrs Anderson: This is great.

Descriptor: As the narrator speaks, we see members of the club eating their meals.

Narrator: As well as funding the refurbishment of the kitchen your support in playing National Lottery games has helped to further improve the club with the employment of a part time administrator who organises trips and creative pastimes for the group.

Descriptor: Once again we meet Reverend Scott who describes what they do at the club. As he speaks, we see some of the craft work that has been done.

Reverend Scott: We do practical activities, we do crafts and wicker works. We do, ah, trays.

Descriptor: We now meet Mrs Palmer, who describes the last craft activity that she took part in. As she speaks, we once again see various examples of the things that they have crafted.

Mrs Palmer: The last one I think we made was on large birds for different colours and we have the one that we made from clay, the hands and all these different sort of things you know.

Descriptor: As Reverend Scott Speaks, we see food being prepared and served to members, before once again focusing in on him.

Reverend Scott: We could not keep going with the old kitchen if we were not funded by the lottery.

Descriptor: We now see members of the club eating their meals and socialising, before being introduced to Mr Walker, a member of the Golden Years Club.

Mr Walker: One of the best things is that we get people together, socially you know. I think we give the lottery great thanks we had something old fashioned here, now we have a nice bright kitchen. Even by the brightness of the kitchen it makes the food better.

Descriptor: For the final time we meet Reverend Scott, who expresses his thanks to The National Lottery. As he speaks, we once again see members of the club eating their meals.

Reverend Scott: We are saying a big thank you to, ah, the lottery for thinking of us and we certainly appreciate that.

Descriptor: Finally we see a white background with a National Lottery logo and a Big Lottery Fund logo, together with a blue caption which reads "Lottery Funded" then a black background with a University of Gloucestershire logo and a white caption which reads, "Produced by Daniel Leonard, Tomas Fuller, Lex Beckett, Sam Cox."