Welcome to Our Big Kitchen

We invite you to help yourselves, each other and your communities.

We are a community kitchen, which feeds the soul and the stomach.

The Basic Cook-in:

This is the program for general volunteering. A 'cook-in' is when a group of enthusiastic volunteers come in for a few hours regularly to help chop, cook, pack and generally keep the whole program ticking along.

The ingredients are sourced by Our Big Kitchen. The food prepared is added to a ‘pool’ of food for distribution. Individuals or groups can then purchase this food for a nominal charge (just enough to cover the cost of ingredients and over-heads).

There will also be variations to this.

- the ‘cook-in’ group may be an already established group who are members of one of our constituent organisations;
- the food prepared may be served cafeteria-style;
- companies may provide a ‘corporate social responsibility’ opportunity to their staff (and may pay for the privilege);
- volunteers may produce meals for a specific cause with the food prepared given as a gift to a particular group of people (and may pay for the privilege)
- people may prepare food for friends or family for a particular cause (eg celebration) funding the ingredients themselves.

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