Cook for Good Community Interest Company

What Cook for Good Community Interest Company does

Cook for Good Community Interest Company is a UK-registered social enterprise (Community Interest Company), founded in 2018 and headquartered at the Hugh Cubitt Community Centre on the Priory Green Estate near Kings Cross, London. The organisation operates a hybrid model in which commercial corporate cooking team-building events (Cook & Share, Restaurant Takeover, Double Helpings, Community Bites, Family Meal Box Challenge, Soup & Bakes Lunch) generate profits that fund a community programme comprising a surplus food Pantry, free cooking classes, community meals, a six-month Community Brigade training and employment programme, and a Volunteer Programme. The Pantry, supplied by The Felix Project and Food Bank Aid, offers weekly membership at £3.50 for £30–£35 of surplus food; the Pantry is currently not accepting new registrations due to demand. The company has 11–50 employees and serves four primary customer segments: corporate enterprises (team building, ESG, client entertainment), food-insecure local residents, unemployed/underemployed residents seeking hospitality training, and emerging community food enterprise leaders. Its corporate clients include Deloitte, Google, Meta, Unilever, Tesco, PayPal UK, EY, Accenture, Norton Rose Fulbright, Mishcon de Reya, London Stock Exchange Group, Sony Music, Snapchat, and Wates Property Services. The enterprise has no proprietary technology platform; its assets are physical (kitchen, pantry, community space) and reputational (brand, press coverage, corporate client relationships). Secondary revenue comes from cookbook sales (Soup for Good and the upcoming October 2026 Salads for Good crowdfunder with a £30,000 target) and a Cook for Change programme, a seven-month founder-led training course piloted in 2025 with a 19-participant 2026 cohort, supported by Google, Deloitte, Peabody and Wates Family Enterprise Trust.

Name

Cook for Good Community Interest Company

Legal name

Cook for Good Community Interest Company

Website

https://cookforgood.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cook for Good is a London-based social enterprise that converts corporate team-building cooking events into funding for a surplus food pantry, free cooking classes, and employment training on a Kings Cross social housing estate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Food and Social Enterprise Services

NAICS

Caterers (722320), Food Service Contractors (722310)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Event Culinary Staffing & Back-of-House Services (Chefs, Servers, Bartenders) (THAHAKAN)

Keywords

• Corporate team building
• Social enterprise catering
• Community cooking classes
• Surplus food redistribution
• Food poverty services

Headquarters

HQ city

City Of London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Corporate Team Building Events: Corporate groups book team building cooking experiences in the Cook for Good kitchen. Events range from Cook & Share (up to 100 meals), Restaurant Takeover, Double Helpings, Community Bites, Family Meal Box Challenge, and Soup & Bakes Lunch. Profits fund the community programme.
2. Pantry Membership: Community members pay £3.50 per week for a basket of surplus food worth £30-35. Membership provides access to fresh, frozen, and storecupboard ingredients plus the soup café.
3. Cookbook Sales: Sale of cookbooks including Soup for Good and the upcoming Salads for Good (October 2026), with a £30,000 crowdfunding target. Profits support community programmes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Cook for Good runs paid corporate team building cooking experiences (Cook & Share, Restaurant Takeover, Double Helpings, Community Bites, Family Meal Box Challenge, Soup & Bakes Lunch) from a community kitchen at Kings Cross. Profits from these events and from cookbook and Pantry membership revenue fund free community programmes including a weekly surplus food Pantry, free cooking classes, Community Meals, and a six-month Community Brigade employment training programme, plus the Cook for Change social enterprise incubation programme.

Product overview

Cook for Good is a social enterprise operating from the Priory Green Estate near King's Cross, London, that combines corporate team building cooking events with community support programmes. The core offering consists of team cooking experiences (Cook & Share, Restaurant Takeover, Double Helpings, Community Bites, Family Meal Box Challenge) where corporate groups prepare meals while supporting the community. These commercial activities fund a community programme including The Pantry (surplus food distribution), free community cooking classes, Community Brigade employment training, and volunteer programmes. The enterprise also publishes cookbooks (Salads for Good, Soup for Good) with proceeds supporting community work, and runs the Cook for Change programme helping other food-based social enterprises develop sustainable trading models.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Team Building Cooking Events

Quantifiable outcome

• 13 tonnes of surplus food redistributed to community in 2024-25
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• The Felix ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Felix Project provides surplus food for Cook for Good's Pantry programme. Cook for Good distributes meals from the Business Gives Back campaign through The Felix Project's network across London, extending the reach of their community impact.
• Food Bank AidcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood Bank Aid partners with Cook for Good to supply surplus food for the community Pantry, helping limit food waste while providing affordable food access to local residents.
• GooglecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGoogle hosts Cook for Change pitch masterclass at Google HQ where Amy Brown (Head of Creative Strategy) teaches participants 'how to pitch for good'. Google provides expert mentorship and facilities for the social enterprise development programme.
• DeloittecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeloitte consultants provide business planning support for Cook for Change programme participants, helping test assumptions, explore markets, and develop self-funding business models for their social enterprises.
• BaxterStoreyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCulinary sponsor for Salads for Good cookbook, contributing to the cookbook's production and promotion.
• Genuine DiningminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCulinary partner providing support for team building events and cookbook sponsorship.
• Houston & HawkesminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCulinary sponsor for Salads for Good cookbook, supporting cookbook development.
• Restaurant AssociatesminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCulinary sponsor and partner providing support for Cook for Change programme through Phil Clerkin (Business Director) as expert contributor.
• Fat Macy'scoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFat Macy's co-founder Nathalie Moukarzel serves as expert contributor to Cook for Change bootcamp, sharing social enterprise knowledge with cohort participants. Fat Macy's founder shares experience building a food-based social enterprise.
• The Dusty KnucklecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Dusty Knuckle co-founder Max Tobias participates in Cook for Change bootcamp as a speaker and social enterprise mentor, sharing expertise with cohort members.
• PeabodycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPeabody provides funding and support for Cook for Change programme. Sahil Khan (Director of Community Strategy, Partnerships & Funding) contributes as programme expert. Peabody is a housing association with community spaces that could benefit from Cook for Change participants' enterprises.
• Notting Hill GenesisminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHousing association supporting Cook for Change 2026 as a partner, providing potential community spaces and network access for cohort members.
• London Quantum Place MakersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner supporting Cook for Change 2026 programme, contributing to the network of housing associations and community space providers.
• Fusion21minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganisation supporting Cook for Change 2026 as a partner, providing expertise and network access for cohort participants.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fat Macy's: London social enterprise training and employing young people in the hospitality industry. Directly comparable food-based social-enterprise training model and currently a contributor to Cook for Good's Cook for Change programme.
• The Dusty Knuckle: London social enterprise bakery combining craft baking with training and employment for marginalised young people. Comparable food-based social enterprise with employment-training outcomes, and currently a Cook for Change bootcamp contributor.
• FoodCycle: UK charity combining surplus food redistribution with free community meals and cooking skills programmes. Highly comparable social mission and community-meal model, though operates at significantly larger national scale without the corporate team-building revenue stream.
• Cookery School at Little Portland Street: London-based cooking school offering hands-on classes and corporate team-building cooking events. Directly comparable on the corporate cooking-events product line, but operates as a commercial venture rather than a community-funded social enterprise.
• The Avenue Cookery School: London cookery school offering team-building cooking events, cookery classes and private dining. Comparable on the corporate team-building cooking experience offering, though without a community-impact reinvestment model.
• Beyond Food: UK social enterprise using food and hospitality training to help disadvantaged individuals into employment. Closely comparable model combining culinary training, work experience and employment pathways, and similar in mission and beneficiary group.
• The Felix Project: London-based surplus food redistribution charity supplying Cook for Good's Pantry. Operates a larger-scale version of the same surplus-to-community food model, providing both a supply partner and a comparable peer in the food-insecurity space.

Emerging players

• School Food Matters: UK charity focused on food education, school cooking programmes and food waste reduction. Partial overlap with Cook for Good's cooking-classes and food-redistribution work, but focuses on school-age beneficiaries rather than community-wide.
• The Clink Charity: UK charity training prisoners in hospitality through restaurant and catering operations. Comparable training-into-employment outcome via food, but focused on a different beneficiary population than Cook for Good's estate-based community model.

Broad incumbents

• BaxterStorey: Large UK corporate catering and hospitality provider and an existing culinary partner of Cook for Good. Comparable in the corporate culinary-event space but operates as a broad incumbent across catering, hospitality and workplace services rather than a community-impact social enterprise.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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