Community Meals

Below are some resources and organisations you may find useful when planning or running a community meals project.

The resources on this site have been shared in good faith by projects and partners within the Feeding Britain network, to help save time and share practice.

All example documents will need to be reviewed and amended for your project before being used.

How to start a Social Eating Project.pdf

National Food Service - How to start a social eating project

Community Cooks Handbook

National Food Service - Community Cooks Handbook

foodcycle.org.uk/

FoodCycle run free community meals in dozens of locations across the country every week. Visit www.foodcycle.org.uk to find out more.

Factsheets-community-cafes-Final.pdf

Teignbridge CVS - Community cafes and lunch clubs factsheet

Other resources

Policies and procedures

Food supplies

Data collection

Employment and volunteering

Wraparound support

Campaigns and government policy

Food safety and hygiene

Food delivery

Research, reports and evidence

Training

Recipes

Sustainability