Amateur cook Jo Davison hopes to dish up £1,000 for Wentworth Woodhouse’s Big House Heroes Campaign. The charity regenerating the dilapidated stately home known to Rotherham folk as ‘The Big House’ is searching for 100 people to each raise £1,000 each by November and former Rotherham Advertiser and Sheffield Star journalist Jo has pledged to be one of them. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
She will be donning her pinny and cooking up three-course Yorkshire Sunday lunches to fundraise. “I love cooking and am long-practised in making what my family call Sunday dinner,” said Jo, who is now a PR consultant. “Mum taught me how when I was a teenager and my gravy is pretty good.
Though if anyone has a foolproof Yorkshire pudding recipe, I’d love to hear it. My puds can be hit and miss, and I’ve a lot to make before the campaign ends in November!” Jo will be making each course with as many Yorkshire ingredients as possible and is also looking for a local butcher specialising in Yorkshire meats, and a vegetable supplier, to sponsor her. Advertisement Advertisement “I will be asking for donations of £25 a head and want nearly all of that to go to Wentworth Woodhouse.
If local businesses could supply me at-cost, that would really make a difference.” Jo was an 18-year-old c.
