Cracking Good Food’s call out Kitchen Kit event – can you donate kitchenware to help others?
Cracking Good Food, a not-for-profit Social Enterprise in Stockport, is calling out for donations of redundant cooking equipment and utensils with the aim of encouraging and supporting more people to cook affordable, seasonal and nutritious homemade food, from scratch.
For many households, not having the right equipment to hand is a barrier for many people to cook healthy, cost-efficient meals.
The Cracking Good Food organisation’s third kitchen redistribution event will take place on
Saturday 22nd April event at Robinson Brewery Visitors Car park.
Businesses and organisations are invited to come along and donate items that will provide the basics and help people when they are moving into independent accommodation such as care leavers, placed in emergency accommodation, or experiencing financial hardship for multiple reasons.
A few highlights of the day are:
- 1stGreat Moor Scouts and Explorers will be helping to pack and carry items to vehicles.
- Free refreshments will be provided.
- Networking opportunity with other community-based organisations.
- Robinson Brewery are bringing the Shire horses out to entertain our guests!
- Chorus of Others – an all-male choir will keep spirits lifted with joyful tunes
The Mayor and Mayoress of Stockport are expected to attend the event and will be keen to hear about the work community leaders are delivering across the region.
Cracking Good Food’s Kitchen Kit Redistribution initiative is designed to provide community organisations with free clean, working and PAT tested kitchenware for redistribution to their community members,
or for some who provide meal services, retain the equipment for their centres use.
About Cracking Good Food
Driven by their belief that EVERYONE deserves good food, their mission is simple: to work collaboratively with others to eradicate food poverty and increase food sustainability in Greater Manchester.
Tracey Torley, Co-Director at Cracking Good Food explains:
“We enthuse, encourage, and teach individuals and groups how to source and cook affordable, healthy, and tasty food from scratch, whilst minimising both food waste and our environmental impact.
“We do this by ensuring everyone to have access to cooking equipment and by delivering accessible and empowering cooking courses and training, as part of a wider campaign for affordable, sustainable & healthier food for all.
“During Covid we harnessed nearly 9,000 of volunteer hours to cook & distribute over 65,000 meals for people in need of support across Greater Manchester.
Throughout all our work, we strive to show by example that eating sustainably and seasonally is both possible and affordable.”
Cracking Good Food deliver hands-on fully participatory cooking workshops using a portable kitchen in communities across and beyond Greater Manchester. Their Kitchen Kit Redistribution initiative is designed to provide community organisations with free clean, working and PAT tested kitchenware for redistribution to their community members, or for some who provide meal services, retain the equipment for their centres use.
They collect and redistribute items such as crockery, bakeware, utensils through to small electrical items. Cooking equipment is procured through our region-wide kitchenware amnesty where local organisations and businesses host collection bins for employees and customers to drop off their donations.
They also have a Corporate Gifting pack for companies who wish to buy a new resettlement electrical pack containing a kettle, toaster, and microwave.
Find out more on the Cracking Good Food’s website
