For the last year, the Brixton People’s Kitchen has

been turning food surplus from local businesses

into free and healthy meals for local people.

We now want to invite local people to design and

build a Mobile Kitchen that will travel throughout

the diverse communities of Brixton and beyond,

to inspire positive action against food waste by

acting as an open, convivial platform for food

education, community building and skills-sharing.

We have just been selected as a finalist in a

Waste Reduction Challenge Prize, run by Nesta,

the UK’s innovation foundation, and funded by

the Cabinet Office, to do just that!

And we would love to get you on board!

CONTACTFan Sissoko - 078 1028 8879

fansissoko@gmail.com www.brixtonpk.wordpress.com

MOBILE KITCHEN

HOSTING THE MOBILE KITCHEN

While the Brixton People’s Kitchen has served a total of 480 meals to a wide range of people, we feel the need to reach out to more diverse communities, and encourage long-term behaviour change.

Our ambition is to build a kitchen on a bike, and host pop-up events in four different South London locations over the summer. We are looking to partner with other community projects keen to get some cooking action going.

We will work with you to run a programme of events, which could help you to achieve the following:

GET PEOPLE TOGETHERIt might be a cliché, but we believe food gets people talking. Our events are collaborative, and we have made new friends at each single one of them.

ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR SKILLS AND LEARN NEW ONESAnother cliché: we love South London because of the diversity of its people. Which also brings a great diversity of culinary skills. We want to build on the expertise that is already latent within communities by, for example facilitating and hosting recipe swaps and cooking demonstrations run by community members.

ACTIVATE UNUSED SPACESWhether you are responsible for an outdoor space, like a community garden, or an indoor space, like a community centre, or a gallery, and even if you already have a kitchen anyway, hosting the Mobile Kitchen will be a great way to bring more people in. Fun and celebration are key to our ethos. We want to avoid moralising and instead inspire people through hands-on cooking sessions that encourage people to think about and engage in creative ways around food waste reduction.

LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, RAISING AWARENESS OF FOOD WASTEWith its markets and numerous restaurants, Brixton is a food hub. It is estimated that 36% of Brixton’s waste is food. The Brixton People’s Kitchen has helped tackle this issue, by cooking with surplus food generated by businesses. However, food waste from retailers only account for a small portion of the total amount of food we waste every year in the UK. The majority actually comes from households.

Our Mobile Kitchen will aim to bring about sustainable behaviour change within the communities we work with. We have partnered with Love Food Hate Waste, a national campaign run by WRAP, the UK’s leading waste-reduction non-profit, to give practical information on how to reduce food waste at home to people who attend our events. We will also support people to become ambassadors for food waste reduction, by providing them with a small sum of money to run their own projects.

IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN, GET IN TOUCH. We are looking for a diversity of locations and communities. Ideally, you are already working with a group or people, or can easily mobilise a group of volunteers to take part in the project. We believe that we should inspire change rtaher than dictating it, and are keen to hear from you about how to best adapt our idea to your needs.

OUR IMPACTS SO FAR:

1 year16 events882 kg of foodsaved from going to waste

480 meals served

• 4 community meals across 4 locations

• 160kg of food used

• 80 people engaged

April 2013

COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS

POP UP EVENTS

IDEAS FUND

5x2h 4x4 sites

A group of Brixton People’s Kitchen volunteers work with young offenders, to design and build the Mobile Kitchen

The Mobile Kitchen is built from scrap materials.

GartenStudio share their expertise and facilitate building workshops

An engaged team of core volunteers, including young people from the Youth Offending Service.

A functioning mobile kitchen

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A first free meal to introduce the project, raise awareness about food waste with Love Food Hate Waste, and recruit more volunteers to organise the next meals

Two free meals in each location, organised in collaboration with the local community.

An opportunity for volunteers in each location to produce something to sell through the Mobile Kitchen.

The Mobile Kitchen intends to visit 4 different sites (TBC).

An emerging network of food waste reduction projects.

• 8 community meals across 4 locations using surplus food from local businesses as well as households

• 600kg of food used

• 200 people engaged

• 300kg of food used

• income generated for the ideas fund

The willing sites we have visited have the opportunity to pitch to us for a micro grant and further support to start-up their own food waste reduction project.

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OUR PLAN

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People who have attended our events have reported feeling more resourceful in their cooking.

90% of the food used during a People’s Kitchen event is surplus food from local businesses.

The Mobile Kitchen events will be a combination of awareness raising, inspiration and practical skills sharing.

This will contribute to changing behaviours to reduce household food waste, and potentially enable people to set up their own projects.

Where possible, the food that cannot be eaten will be composted for community gardens.

The Mobile Kitchen will be build from waste materials, sourced through the Remakery, Cycooldelic and Freecycle.

For each event, we have used around 50kg of perishable ingredients and long shelf life items. The Mobile Kitchen will enable us to significantly increase this amount.

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