WE ARE NOW EXPANDING OUR WORK ACROSS THE LONDON COMMUNITIES
Welcome to the Bermondsey Community Kitchen, which is now incorporating the London Community Kitchen.
Our board of trustees decided that including the name London along with Bermondsey, reflected our mission to extend our community support to neighbouring or nearby boroughs across London.
Since its formation, we have expanded our initial single program to encompass other much-needed community issues which were highlighted by the Covid pandemic.
Changing lives in London. We’ve done it before.
Our programs:
Training unemployed 18 to 40-year-olds to obtain a City and Guilds Level 2 professional cookery qualification and promote them into full-time employment through our employment network.
Provide courses in Level 1, 2 and 3 Food Hygiene and Allergen Awareness courses, open to all community organisations run through the Chartered Institution of Environmental Health.
Run basic healthy eating cooking on a budget classes for the elderly with no age limit.
Provide the equipment and materials required to operate raised growing boxes on local social housing estates encouraging residents to grow their own vegetables and liaise with other residents otherwise unknown to them this includes working with local primary schools.
We have a catering trailer which provides students with the ability to enter the catering business whilst providing entrepreneurial skills and assist in community functions with events on a non-profit basis.
We have obtained an independent community café. This café provides the first step for qualified students to enter the commercial catering industry increasing their CV status and getting valuable work experience skills in all areas required to run a business including cooking, cash flows, bookkeeping, purchasing, customer service skills, barista skills and much more.
All the above programs are free
