Cracking Good Food

Where do they work?: City-Wide, Greater Manchester
Telephone: 0787 244 6642
Address: 8 Napier Road Manchester M21 8AW
Registered charity number: 0
Other registration number: 07369862
Description: We enthuse, encourage, and teach individuals, families, young people and community groups how to source and cook affordable, healthy, and tasty food from scratch, whilst minimising both food waste and our environmental impact.

We do this by delivering accessible and empowering cooking courses and training, as part of a wider campaign for affordable, sustainable and healthier food for all.

We work with food banks, pantry schemes and affordable food clubs to share affordable and accessible cooking skills, and we redistribute pre-loved kitchen equipment sourced from our 'Kitchen Kit Call Out' campaign - over 5 tonnes of equipment has been intercepted from landfill and redistributed so far!

Our amazing volunteers are the backbone of our work - last year alone they contributed more than 1400 hours of their time to support our work. If you'd like to volunteer with us, or to find out more about our work, please visit our website and follow our socials.

Our services are flexible to accommodate the organisations needs, so we deliver weekday and weekends.
Services delivered: Anything and everything from one off participatory cooking sessions & demos to 6 - 8 week programmes, Urban Foraging, Training & Cookery School delivery across 4 venues. We want to restore a strong & positive good food culture within communities.
Services are available: Face to face, Online/digitally
Languages available: English, Spanish, Urdu, Italian, Pakistani
Cash donations: Donations can be made online here: https://crackinggoodfood.org/donate/
Non-cash donations: Preloved clean, complete and working kitchenware can be donated via our Kitchen Kit Callout initiative, further details can be gained by emailing [email protected]
Companies wishing to support our mission to alleviate food and fuel poverty across Greater Manchester, can support our work through Volunteer Corporate Activities. Individuals wishing to volunteer at our community and cookery school classes can email [email protected].

Volunteering Opportunities

Opportunity title Summary
DUPLICATE: Cooking Session Assistant We are a Manchester-based social enterprise and sustainable cooking network, which promotes - cooking affordable food from scratch as a vital life skill; using sustainable and seasonal ingredients; reducing food waste and supporting the local economy & local food producers. Deliver a range of value-for-money cooking workshops and wild food foraging events for the general public, as well as an extensive community outreach programme of classes and longer courses for a wide range of vulnerable & hard-to-reach community groups, Volunteers are needed to help sessions run smoothly whilst gaining some first-hand cooking tips & enjoying some lovely homemade food too!
Volunteer Food Driver Cracking Good Food are looking for volunteers to help deliver food to organisations across Greater Manchester.
Cracking Good Food Volunteer Cracking Good Food are looking for volunteers to support their cookery classes, courses and workshops.
Volunteer Food Delivery Driver Cracking Good Food are looking for Volunteer Food Delivery Drivers to help on Thursdays.
Volunteer Cooking Assistant Cracking Good Food is looking for a Volunteer Cooking Assistant