Copleston Community Cafe - Cooking on a Budget

The project will build on Copleston's successful Cooking on a Budget classes where volunteers have been learning to cook with local experienced chefs  - including Eats Shoots and Leaves (Vegetarian) and Nandine (Kurdish) - and preparing meals for our popular, warm and welcoming Community Cafe. 

With the help of  local chefs and food outlets, our volunteer-supported Community Cafe offers culturally diverse healthy meals in a welcoming environment. The meals are donation-based and free to those who need.   

Beneficiaries include older people and others who feel they would benefit from a healthy, affordable or free meal, and/or eating with others. 

The funding will support us to: 

Run more ‘Cooking on a Budget' sessions for volunteers from which food will be provided to our community café customers  in a warm friendly space.

Develop our commitment to offering choice, dignity, diversity and affordability in a welcoming and inclusive space where people can cook and eat together 

Bring our  community together in a safe warm space  

Develop new partnerships with local businesses and opportunities for volunteers 

Develop our philosophy of food sharing via our 'help-yourself' shelf, Community Cafe and working with South London Urban Growers (SLUG) on food growing projects