Improving Relationships with Food for Everyone
Cookery Classes & Workshops
Delivering our Shop & Cook Wise courses and workshops across Plymouth to teach essential cooking and life skills as well as offering food coaching.
Working with Livewell Southwest’s Weight Management clients to rekindle those lost cooking mojos.
Supporting ex-service veterans through our Bake and Banter project, using food as a therapy and a motivator.
Food Education
Teaching nutrition and cooking skills to primary school pupils in a fun way.
Talk to us about your idea or needs about children’s food education and we’ll work with you to tailor our service to suit you.
Demonstration Kitchen Hire
For events of any size, we have a demonstration kitchen/stage for you at competitive rates. Although we mainly cover the South West of England, please do enquire if your event is further afield, and if we can’t help, we’ll try to point you in the direction of someone who hopefully can.
Improving Relationships with Food in a Fun Way and Reinvesting Profits for Social Impact
Cookery Classes and Workshops
Delivering our Shop & Cook Wise courses and workshops across Plymouth to teach essential cooking and life skills as well as offering food coaching.
Working with Livewell Southwest’s Weight Management clients to rekindle those lost cooking mojos.
Supporting ex-service veterans through our Bake and Banter project, using food as a therapy and a motivator.
Food Education
Teaching nutrition and cooking skills in a fun way.
Talk to us about your idea or needs about children’s food education and we’ll work with you to tailor our service to suit you.
Demonstration Kitchen Hire
For events of any size, we have a demonstration kitchen/stage for you at competitive rates. Although we mainly cover the South West of England, please do enquire if your event is further afield, and if we can’t help, we’ll try to point you in the direction of someone who hopefully can.
Food Buddies South West 💚
Our Impact
We have worked with
Primary, Secondary, Surestart & Colleges
We have worked with
Children and their families
We have delivered
Food festivals large and small
Our demo kitchens have supported over
Public food events
Our Latest News
Livewell Weight Management Cookery Workshops
Here are the remaining dates of our 2023 workshops for those who are under the Weight Management Programme.
Bake and Banter for Veterans is back for another 2 years!
We are so excited to share this news with you! Thanks to funding from the Veteran's Foundation, our Bake and Banter project is continuing for a further 2 years. While we run most of our workshops in South East Cornwall, we will be running some online sessions over the...
Bake and Banter Project for Veterans
With thanks to funding from the Veteran's Foundation, we are continuing to deliver our Bake and Banter project to veterans. Have a look at some of our recent activities: https://youtu.be/axgaC5Mzf3g If you are a veteran and would like to join in some of our...
Help us and choose us as your Local Co-op Cause!
We need you! We are privileged to have been chosen as a Coop Community Cause for the third year running. Whether victims of domestic abuse or being supported by the NSPCC or Barnardos, we will bring people and families together through interactive workshops, to...
Our Summer 2021 Activities
Fit and Fed Summer 2021 As part of Plymouth's Fit and Fed 2021, this summer the Food Is Fun team visited holiday clubs across the city, talking to children about food and how to have a healthy diet. Children were amazed to see the amount of sugar that some of their...
Caring For Carers – Respite Days
Are you a carer? Running through the summer are some respite days just for you.
Reinvesting profits for Social Impact
We are proud to be a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. That means that when you hire anything from us, you are helping us to make a difference to those who need our help.
Any profit we make from our hires is reinvested into the organisation to part-fund our schools and community work.
Teaching essential cooking and budgeting skills alongside the importance of having a healthy balanced diet for overall health and wellbeing.
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