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Cook for Good is a social enterprise that’s tackling food insecurity, social isolation and barriers to work on a social housing estate in Kings Cross.

A volunteer with a community member in the Cook for Good kitchen near King Cross

Healthy food for the community at a surplus food pantry

We run team cooking experiences in our shiny new kitchen, making huge quantities of food to share with local residents and outreach organisations.

And we use the profits to fund a programme which includes free cooking classes and courses, employment programmes and a surplus food pantry.

A corporate group eating a meal they cooked at a team building awayday in London

Cook for Good is a social enterprise that’s tackling food insecurity, social isolation and barriers to work on a social housing estate in Kings Cross.

We run team cooking experiences in our shiny new kitchen, making huge quantities of food to share with local residents and outreach organisations.

And we use the profits to fund a community programme which includes free cooking classes, employment programmes and a surplus food pantry.

What you’ll be doing with us

How your event will support our community

Corporate colleagues cooking meals at a teambuilding day in London

When school’s out, free school meals are off the menu, leaving some families struggling to fill the gap. Will you join our 2000 Summer Plates campaign and help us provide nourishing meals for our community? Just book a Family Meal Boxes event between 21 July and 29 August.

Get involved

A chef who will be cooking Thai food at a fundraising dinner

New teambuilding events on our menu

We've developed some new ways to have fun with us, as well as keeping some of our old favourites. Fancy getting a team of up to 100 together to prep boxes of ingredients for healthy soup for local families? Or taking a trip round the world in four dishes, hosted by our COmmunity Brigade? We'd love to tell you more.

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Available now: Soup for Good

Soup for Good is a beautifully produced book of recipes and stories from the Cook for Good community. Explore our favourite soups, no-stress breads and delicious toppings, and meet some of Priory Green’s much-loved characters. All profits will be used to tackle food insecurity and social isolation.

Explore the book

A surplus food pantry for the Priory Green Estate community, near Kings Cross

Extra sessions at our surplus food pantry

Due to overwhelming demand from our community, we're now offering morning and evening Pantry sessions. Members pay £3.50 a week, which entitles them to come in and shop for a basket of fresh, frozen and storecupboard ingredients (worth between £30 and £35).

A community member shopping in the Cook for Good surplus food pantry

Read all about it

Guardian journalist Alexandra Topping popped in to see what happens at Cook for Good, and wrote a smashing piece about us. It included some lovely comments by members of our community, including Pantry member Deolida (pictured).

See article

Listen to us on the Off Air podcast

We were delighted to be visited by Jane Garvey, co-host of the Off Air with Jane and Fi podcast, who came in to record an episode all about us. Jane visited our kitchen and hung out in the Pantry, chatting to our co-founders and some of our staff and volunteers. It's a lovely insight into what we do and the warmth of the Cook for Good experience.

Listen here

Cook, shop, eat and connect with us

A group cooking together at a corporate awayday in London

For businesses

Our corporate team building experiences are the most fun you can have in the kitchen, combining hot pans, cool tunes and the chance to give something back. Roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, working as a team to cook up to 100 meals to share with our community – and enough for yourselves to eat, too.

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A group of children at a community cooking class near Kings Cross

For the community

Come and be part of the Cook for Good family, and get food, support and training on your doorstep. Whether you’d like to take part in a cooking course, choose a weekly basket of low-cost food, or gain skills and experience to help you into work, there’s a whole load of opportunities waiting here for you.

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What happens at a team building event?

We recently hosted a team from Genuine Dining, one of our culinary partners, who made a film of their Cook & Serve experience. Here’s what they got up to.

It's been an incredible, energising and humbling experience for the whole team to work with an organisation that not only provides food for the most vulnerable in our communities, but also brings dignity and hope to so many in the way they build social inclusion and tackle loneliness and many other social challenges.

Simon Bladon, CEO, PayPal UK

See our impact

Spending the day at Cook for Good was a truly fulfilling experience. It went beyond the act of preparing food; it was about coming together to support the local community. It was also a fantastic way for our apprentices to spend time together as a group, working towards a common goal with the added benefit of helping a brilliant organisation.

Mishcon de Reya

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What a roaring success that was! An amazing opportunity to give something back and to have a lot of fun with colleagues from our team and the wider business at the same time. Cook for Good is a wonderful and very deserving organisation and it was so good to see first-hand the difference the support makes when we visited the Pantry too.

London Stock Exchange Group

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Our plans for 2025-26

We’ve set ourselves some hefty targets for this year.
Here’s what we’re hoping to achieve.

The target number of community meals we will provide in one year

community meals
provided

The target number of households who will join our Pantry

active pantry member households

The number of opportunities provided to help people find employment

paid employment opportunities

The number of people who will attend our community cooking classes

cooking programme attendees

The amount of food we aim to redistribute to avoid food waste

tonnes surplus food redistributed

Read about our ambitions

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