'You can tell, by looking at their [ChangeKitchen's] website, that it's not just about "how can we make some money out of sandwiches?" - it's very much offering a product which has been very well thought through and which embodies not just healthy eating values and vegetarian and vegan values, but it's also thinking about the social context - how to make an impact on people's unhealthy behaviours with food, and also how to give a message not just about working with disadvantaged people.
Cath Gilliver - CEO at SIFA Fireside.
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We’re a social enterprise, proud to be cooking up change for disadvantaged people in Birmingham, as well as delicious food.
The single biggest difference between ChangeKitchen and other event caterers is that we create and serve our food differently; we want our clients and customers to celebrate sharing a meal, as well as fuelling their bodies.
All of our food is fully vegetarian (always with vegan and gluten-free options), so everyone shares food from one table. Our food is designed to bring people together, rather than dividing them, we don't create individual platter sections for people from different ethnic, cultural or religious backgrounds. We take pride in serving food which really celebrates diversity.
Our dishes are inspired by cuisines from around the world: curries from South Asia, South East Asia and the Caribbean, as well as dishes from around the Mediterranean and the Americas and our own very popular versions of British traditional favourites.
The team enjoy picking up recipes from different cultures – and making them part of our repertoire by putting the ChangeKitchen stamp on them. We run five-a-day-on-a-budget cookery classes. We deliver them to community groups, housing associations, corporate teams and the general public -
ChangeKitchen’s mission is to be part of a revolution that turns access to healthy eating away from a privilege to a right for everyone.
Our goals are simple:
- to meet a demand for catering that is delicious, nutritious and which supports a healthy lifestyle,
- to contribute to a local, sustainable and healthy food economy,
- to provide training and work opportunities to people who face social exclusion
- and to support them into mainstream employment and a more stable lifestyle.
