About the community kitchen
Who are they?
What do they do?
What do they do?
The Community Kitchen is a flagship social enterprise on Queens Road in central Brighton, where we offer low-cost community cookery classes alongside higher-priced lessons which raise funds for the community work. Since June 2018, over 5,000 people have gained cookery skills & inspiration with us.
What do they do?
What do they do?
What do they do?
The Community Kitchen, is part of the wider work of the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership – which helps people learn to cook, grow food, eat a healthy diet and waste less. We run therapeutic gardens, process and redistribute surplus food and work to address food poverty. Community Cookery offers healthy meals alongside cookery and life skills for vulnerable people in our local community.
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Topics include 'low energy cooking' (where we distribute slow cookers and hand mixers), make your own takeaway, baking & bread basics, food & mood nutrition sessions, affordable seafood and batch cooking. Our low cost/ free cookery and nutrition activities reach a range of vulnerable groups: adults with learning disabilities and people living on low incomes/ in deprived neighbourhoods or those with poor physical and mental health.
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We provide all ingredients for cookery sessions, with a focus on low-cost ingredients and using limited equipment/ basic domestic cookery kit. Our sessions also provide a structured and supportive social opportunity – conversations pop up throughout the session as participants cook together and then each session ends with a shared meal at our large dining table – a chance to connect with others and for many participants it is one of their only opportunities to do this each week.
