Benefits 

The beauty of Cook for Good is that it offers multiple benefits - to you personally, your team, your company, the recipient shelters, their clients and their staff :
WHAT YOU GIVE
WHAT YOU GET
  • Your team event includes the donation of ALL the lunch ingredients for 150 homeless people - 100% donated by your team 
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  • Your team will cook all the delicious and nutritious food for the meal from scratch
 
  • Your team will give an invaluable “day out” of the active kitchen for the shelter’s catering staff to complete essential kitchen management tasks
 
  • We will donate essential kitchen equipment to the shelter in your team’s name
 
  • A source of potential future volunteers and supporters of this fantastic charity.






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  • The ultimate “real life” team bonding experience that builds relationships, improves team working AND gives you a chance to deliver positive social impact. 
 
  • Personal and corporate pride, fulfillment and satisfaction having used your team efforts as a force for good
 
  • A chance to experience running a real kitchen with professional chefs
 
  • An experience of a high-pressure lunch service to circa 150 homeless and vulnerable people 
 
  • A delicious sit down lunch after service, shared with your team
 
  • An introduction to the work of The Passage in supporting homeless and vulnerable people – facilities, Q&A with key staff.
 
  • A recipe pack with all the recipes cooked on the day, reduced portion sizes to suit a home kitchen

What happens on the day?

  • The day starts with a briefing session, explaining the impact of the work and then the team defines their roles and responsibilities in relation to the tasks and challenges ahead.
  • Our expert chefs then mentor and guide the team through the cooking of the meal.
  • Thereafter the team either serve the meal to the shelter's visitors OR pack up the food ready for offsite transport to centres of need.
  • After the kitchen clear-up, the whole team come together to eat -  sharing what they’ve cooked and reflecting on their experiences.

Optional Learning & Development Layer
We can incorporate a more in-depth learning and development (L&D) framework into the design with upfront learning sessions and a more robust reflection, key learning & action planning session to follow the meal.  The content can be based around development themes such as understanding diverse work styles and personality;  how to best communicate; team stages of development and how to be high performing; building resilience in teams, managing change, reducing team stress and conflict resolution etc. The specifics of the design will be determined in consultation with the client and to meet the specific team’s needs.  

What options do you have?

​There are two ways to take part in Cook for Good, depending on the number of participants and clients location:
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COOK & SERVE
COOK & SEND
NUMBERS
up to 14 people max
Any number of participants
LOCATION
Onsite at a shelter in central London
Offsite to shelter, in a commercial kitchen in London or anywhere in the UK
FORMAT
Participants cook 150 portions of food to serve to between 100 - 150 visitors of the shelters (numbers can vary daily). Team shares the meal together after service. 
Participants cook the meal, package & prepare it for delivery to local shelters, to be eaten for lunch the following day. Team shares the meal together after. 
AVAILABLE DATES
Tues 26th March; Tues 30th April; Thurs 23rd May; Wed 26th June; Wed 17th July; August TBC; Tues 17th Sept; Wed 30th Oct; Thurs 14th Nov; ​Tues 17th Dec

​If none of these pre-set dates suit, please advise and we will try secure you a specific alternative date. 
Flexible - Any available date to suit client 
PRICE
CLICK FOR PROPOSAL: COOK & SERVE
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