Query available to all funtions in Controller

[eluser]weetstraw[/eluser]
In my footer view I have a foreach loop, because of this, each function that uses this footer requires me to create the array for the loop.

Code:

'recent'=>$this->Home_model->getRecent(),

Question is...How to I make "recent" available to all functions in the controller without having to add it to each time?