Get cooking

Business in the Community has composed a menu of activities to inspire, engage, support and challenge businesses to mobilise their staff through Let’s Get Cooking.

The Let’s Get Cooking “vegetable garden” team challenge project was one of the best projects I have worked on.  The school were fantastic, and I agreed that I will be in regular contact with them to continue our support. We have arranged to go back to the school soon, as the lettuces that we planted should be ready for picking, and it will be great to see how the club is getting along.

Community volunteering provides businesses with a unique opportunity to engage employees and develop their skills and competences, including communication, project management, leadership and team working. 

Let’s Get Cooking provides business with a unique opportunity to engage and work collaboratively with their supply chain and business partners. Through the programme, companies can raise their profile and discover a new network of potential customers.

What can your company do?

Support Let's Get Cooking clubs by selecting from a wide range of volunteering options from our Let's Get Cooking: Menu of Opportunities (Click on the image below). 

        Menu of Opportunities

This user-friendly list of volunteering options is divided into three main areas:

• Individual volunteering
• In-kind support
• Events and wider community opportunities

Businesses can support and participate in the programme from a one-off  session to regular involvement.  Business in the Community will provide advice and guidance to businesses based on the level of brokerage the company requires. The types of opportunities outlined are subject to availability.

What we will do for you?

Business in the Community's will provide the following: 

• An introductory meeting to discuss the project and volunteering opportunities.
• Briefings for company staff on different types and levels of volunteering.
• An annual review meeting to assess your activity.
• Business in the Community will also help your company to capture, measure, and communicate your support of Let’s Get Cooking.

If a full introductory and specialised brokerage service is preferred, Let's Get Cooking can be delivered through the Cares programme.

Cares

Cares mobilises businesses and employee volunteers nationally to address social issues in communities. Over 400 companies support city-based and regional Cares partnerships in 36 locations in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.* 

*Let's Get Cooking is only operational in the nine government regions in England.

For further information

If you wish to know more about how your company can get involved please contact Vanessa Strauss by phone on 0207 566 8762 or by email.