Rose Cottage Community Hub Kitchen

Aim

To open up a kitchen for food provision for classes and sessions along with 'community kitchen' sessions

About Us

Rose Cottage Hub is a CIC limited by guarantee with 4 directors, 3 of which are unrelated, there is also a small committee of members of the Hub. The Hub has been going nearly 3 years now and we have some amazing outdoor space that we would now like to make in to a community food and well being garden. We are located in a highly deprived area with a lot of people faced with financial difficulties does to the rise in cost of living. 

Our Idea

We want to open a Kitchen at Rose Cottage Community Hub with the view to helping with cost of living and food poverty, food provision and support social isolation, mental health and wellbeing and organisation sustainability. Having the kitchen will enable us to be more independent as an organisation and will help us to become more sustainable in the future. 

Costs of food provision for activities such as providing food for kids when we have school holiday activities on would be reduced as we would be providing it ourselves instead of using a third party. The kitchen would also be used for adult cookery classes, childrens cookery classes as part of our new kids club sessions, we would have sessions on to educate people one how to make healthy meals with limited ingredients and we will be contacting local supermarkets to see if we can access surplus foods to then offer a cheap meal service for the community, whereby we would use foods donated to us to make meals for people to access for a very reduced cost. 

We would also have sessions that the kitchen would be used as a 'Community Kitchen' allowing people to be able to come and cook together, making meals work out a lot cheaper for each of them as they would be using shared ingredients. We are currently developing our community garden which will have areas that we will be planting and growing foods, and we would encourage people to use these fresh ingredients in their cooking. 

The money will be spent on

The money will be spent on paying towards the rent and electricity to run the kitchen, to provide training for volunteers and to purchase the necessary equipment and resources. 

This project successfully funded on 12th October 2023