What Made In Hackney does

Made In Hackney is a London-based non-profit organization founded in 2011 that delivers free community classes to people most in need, operating from Hackney with a small team of 1-10 employees. Its mission is service-delivery focused on disadvantaged local populations rather than commercial product development, and the underlying technology stack is not disclosed — the organization's website returned only a loading screen during data collection, and no proprietary platforms, apps, or digital products are documented.

The organization is governed by a small leadership team including co-founder Joshana Lovage, founder and Project Director Sarah Bentley, Finance Director Jayshree Bhakta, and Project Director Veryan Wilkie Jones. As a registered non-profit, its revenue model is presumed to rely on grants, donations, and charitable funding rather than commercial pricing, though no detailed financials, donor mix, or grant history are publicly disclosed beyond a single $64,941 funding round dated November 2017.

Operating on a hyper-local footprint in a single London borough, Made In Hackney's go-to-market is direct community engagement rather than scalable distribution. No customer segments, partnerships, certifications, or technology integrations are documented in the available data, limiting any assessment of operating sophistication or programmatic scale.

Name

Made In Hackney

Website

https://madeinhackney.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Made In Hackney is a London-based non-profit founded in 2011 that provides free community classes to disadvantaged local residents in the Hackney borough, operating with a small team of 1-10 staff.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Cooking Education

NAICS

All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction (611699), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169)

akta.pro primary industry

Nutrition, Special Diets & Wellness Cooking (EDAOAKAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Baking & Pastry Classes (THAJAGAJ)

Keywords

• Community cooking classes
• Plant-based nutrition
• Food education
• Community kitchen
• Healthy eating workshops

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Made In Hackney delivers free community-based cooking and food education classes, primarily plant-based, aimed at people in need. Founded in 2011 in Hackney, London, the non-profit runs classes focused on nutrition, food preparation, and healthy eating for vulnerable local residents.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Free Community Cooking Classes Free community cooking and nutrition classes, primarily focused on plant-based food preparation, offered to people most in need in the Hackney borough of London.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• School Food Matters: UK charity focused on food education, school cooking, and healthy eating programmes. Comparable on educational-cooking delivery model and beneficiary focus on underserved communities.
• Chefs in Schools: UK charity training chefs and cooks to improve school and community food. Comparable on food-skills education mission and charity-driven delivery to disadvantaged populations.
• Migrateful: UK charity running cookery classes led by refugees and migrants. Comparable on the community-cooking-class model and on targeting vulnerable beneficiaries through food education.
• The Bread and Butter Thing: UK food poverty charity providing affordable food and cooking support to low-income communities. Comparable on mission (addressing food insecurity among vulnerable populations) and grassroots community-delivery approach.
• FoodCycle: UK charity that combines surplus food with volunteer-run community meals, targeting people most in need. Directly comparable to Made In Hackney in mission, beneficiary base, and community-cooking delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• City Harvest London: London food surplus redistribution charity serving communities in need. Comparable on London focus and food-poverty beneficiary base, though operating in food rescue rather than direct cooking education.
• Hubbub Foundation: UK environmental charity with a food and sustainability programme including community cooking initiatives. Comparable on the intersection of food, sustainability, and community education, though with a broader environmental remit.
• Jamie's Ministry of Food / Better Food Foundation: Jamie Oliver's food-education charity arm running community cookery programmes. Comparable on community-cooking-class model and target audience of people wanting to learn to cook, but operating at much larger scale and brand reach.
• The Felix Project: London-based food surplus charity with a wider scope (rescue, redistribution, education). Comparable on London geography and food-poverty mission, though its core model is redistribution rather than cooking classes.

Regional players

• Cookery School at Little Portland Street: London-based cookery school offering both paid classes and community-focused programmes. Comparable on London geography and cooking-instruction offering, though its core model is paid classes rather than free charity provision.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Made_In_Hackney

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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