Cook for Good

11/06/2026

🥗 Salads for Good alert 💚

Our brand new cookbook is now available to pre-order here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/salads-for-good # 🎉

Packed with 52 delicious salads, including donated recipes from Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Claudia Winkleman, plus dressings, toppings and stories from the Cook for Good community, it’s a book you’ll return to all year round.

And there’s more.

All the profits will support our community programme, and for a limited time, every book you pre-order will help us unlock match funding, which means even more support for people experiencing food insecurity and social isolation.

So whether you’re buying a copy (or copies) for yourself, a friend, a colleague or a client, you’ll be helping create massive impact.

Pre-order yours today here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/salads-for-good # 💚

Thanks to our culinary sponsors BaxterStorey, Genuine Dining, Houston & Hawkes and Restaurant Associates, and to Mishcon de Reya, Peabody, Phoenix Court Works, Procurement Hub, tp bennett and Triple Point for additional support.

12/03/2026

Are you a founder or director of a community food organisation which is supporting people with the cost of living crisis? Are you looking to develop trading-based income streams to diversify your funding?

Then Cook for Change 2026 could be just what you need – and applications are open RIGHT NOW. It’s a seven-month, fully subsidised programe which includes:

· A three-day immersive bootcamp
· A pitch masterclass and showcase
· Business planning workshops
· 121 financial planning and leadership coaching
· Visits to potential partners
· Networking and support from your peers

There are 20 places available, and we are particularly interested in candidates who are currently, or hope to be, supporting people living in social housing. The programme starts in June with a bootcamp in London; we will cover out-of-pocket expenses of up to £100 per day for in-person sessions.

Applications close on Friday 20 March; you can find out more and apply on our website at cookforgood.uk/cfcapply. And if this isn’t right for you, but could be perfect for someone you know, please do DM them or tag them below.

15/07/2024

IT'S HERE! Our gorgeous new cookbook, Soup for Good, is now available for pre-order – and if we can get orders for 400 copies in the next 4 weeks through our crowdfunder campaign (www.cookforgood.uk/crowdfunder), we'll raise a massive extra £50,000 for our community programme. Will you help? Here's the lowdown:

🥣 Soup for Good is a book of recipes and stories from the Cook for Good community.

🥣 It's packed with recipes for soups, breads and toppings that you'll come back to again and again, including donated recipes from our supporters Nigella Lawson, Ed Balls, Gordon Brown, Karan Gokani, and Wichet Khongphoon, and from our culinary partners.

🥣 It also features some of our community's much-loved characters (who have some great stories to tell).

🥣 It's beautifully designed and photographed, and would make a fantastic present for clients, employees, friends and family (it's never too early to start thinking about those festive gifts).

🥣 And all the profits from the book will be used to provide more meals for our community, places at free cooking classes or on our back-to-work training programme, and ways for isolated residents to come together.

The book will be available from October, but we'll get £125 for every £25 copy that we pre-sell in the next four weeks, up to a total of £50,000. So please check it out and get ordering! You can find out more and bag your copies here: www.cookforgood.uk/crowdfunder.

Thank you so much to our culinary partners, who have funded the publication of Soup for Good, allowing us to invest all the profits into our community programme: BaxterStorey, Genuine Dining, Houston & Hawkes and Restaurant Associates UK.

And additional thanks go to these partners for providing extra support for our book: Havas, Peabody, Phoenix Court Works and TP Bennett.

10/07/2024

10/06/2024

🎉🎉🎉Massive congratulations to Jason Boswell, food photographer and great friend to us at Cook for Good, who has won second place in his category at the Food Photographer of the Year awards with a fabulous picture that’s got all our team’s stomachs rumbling.

Jason is also a fantastic chef who regularly works with our resident chefs to run our corporate and community cooking events. And he’s been working with us for the last few months with his photographer’s hat on, taking some gorgeous pictures for a new project which we’ll be announcing very soon – watch this space. 🎉🎉🎉

To see more of Jason’s photography, check out

02/05/2024

Big thanks to our culinary partner Genuine Dining who have gifted us these reusable water bottles and coffee cups to pass on to our community.

We’re all about sustainability here at the Cook for Good Pantry - we sell surplus food that would otherwise have been wasted (given to us by and ). So it’s great that our members are getting a bit of extra help with cutting down their personal waste too.