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Kitchen Roots Community
Feeding the local community healthy, tasty and sustainable meals
Kitchen Roots Community is a new social enterprise collaborating with The Community Brain to feed the local community healthy, tasty and sustainable meals.
Come and join us for lunch or a hot drink every
Thursday, 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm at St Mary's Centre, Church Lane, Chessington KT9 2DR.
Meals are available to eat on site or to take away. They are available on a 'pay what you can' basis.
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Kitchen Roots Community is led by Manny of Manny's Kitchen, a fantastic local start-up businesses.
The social enterprise was born out of the desire to provide healthy, sustainable and affordable meals to our local community.
We work in partnership with The Community Fridge (our neighbours) utilising ingredients that would otherwise end up as food waste and our own locally grown and locally sourced ingredients.
We also offer event & corporate catering, organise cooking workshops and courses for private and commercial teams and people in the local community. Do get in touch with at contact@thecommunitybrain.org if you would like to organise or hire us for an event or workshop.
Event & Corporate Catering
Cooking Workshops & Courses
Meet, eat and share together
Volunteer with us
We’re looking for people to join our friendly team preparing and serving meals for the community at St Mary's Centre.
How can you help?
We’re looking for volunteers to help
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Prepare meals
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Set up the venue
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Greet customers on arrival
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Serve customers
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Wash up
When and where
We’re looking for volunteers:
Volunteers for the preparation of meals - Every Wednesday
between 10:00 - 13:00
or 13:00 - 16:00
Address: Baking Ideas, Tolworth Station KT5 9NX
Volunteers for lunch service - Every Thursday
between 9:00 - 12:00
or 12:00 - 16:00
Address: St Mary's Centre, Church Lane, KT9 2DR Chessington
You can get involved on a regular basis if you’d like, or help out at one-off sessions if that suits you more.
This project has been funded by
Meet the founders
Manny
Manny is a qualified nutritionist. She has either worked or studied in the Health and Wellbeing sector since 2004 and been in charge of operations at Helping Hackney Health (HHH) from 2013 to 2018 delivering community cookery programmes. Since then, she has been involved in catering and training and has recently set up Manny’s Kitchen CIC - offering catering and nutritional services to the neighbouring community. She is passionate about cooking using the spices and herbs of south and southeast Asia.
Emma
In 2016, after a career in Teaching, Emma started up Little Ginger a Plant Based food business– feeding people delicious, healthy and sustainable food in many ways including Popups, from a stall at Kingston Market, Supper Clubs, Retreats, Events, Weddings, Parties and more! Having trained with sustainable Chef Bettina Bordi at Bettina’s Kitchen Academy, Emma brings Plant Based
knowledge and a passion for sharing seasonal, sustainable, healthy and tasty food.
