Season Well CIC

What Season Well CIC does

Season Well CIC is a Leeds-based Community Interest Company (social enterprise) that delivers hands-on education and services around growing, cooking, and eating local, seasonal food. Founded in 2018 by Becky Mears, the organisation targets four primary customer segments: community organisations (mental health, older people's, and learning disability charities; community centres), schools, corporate businesses, and food businesses (pubs, cafes, restaurants). Its service portfolio spans one-off and multi-session cooking and growing workshops (3 to 12 sessions), seasonal catering, corporate team-building and wellbeing events, school food education programmes (including the Young Marketeers programme at Kirkgate Market), and consultancy for edible garden development and seasonal menu planning.

The company operates with no proprietary technology platform; its "technology" is a practical seasonal food curriculum delivered via on-site workshops at client locations, online sessions, external learning kitchens, and community venues such as the Full Circle Funerals kitchen garden in Guiseley. Marketing is content-led through a blog, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, supplemented by partner referrals and presence at community events including RHS Harlow Carr Festival of Flavours.

Revenue is generated through unit-priced professional services (half-day community courses from £90, full-day from £150, corporate sessions from £290 per team, online sessions from £190) and is supplemented by grants from Leeds Community Foundation, the National Lottery Community Fund, and the RHS Community Wellbeing Fund. The company has 1-10 employees, is privately held and founder-led, and has not disclosed financial results. Its strategic positioning relies on a community ecosystem of partner organisations (Lemon Balm CIC, Orb Community Arts, Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network, Incredible Edible Leeds, Shared Harmonies, Harrogate Skills for Living) that co-deliver and co-fund programming.

Name

Season Well CIC

Legal name

Season Well CIC

Website

https://seasonwell.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Season Well CIC is a Leeds-based social enterprise that delivers hands-on workshops, courses, catering, and consultancy to help schools, community organisations, corporates, and food businesses grow, cook, and eat seasonal food.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Food Education and Community Catering Services

NAICS

Caterers (722320), Special Food Services (7223)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Culinary Skills Workshops (Baking, Regional Cooking, Food Prep Skills) (THAJAKAE)

Keywords

• Seasonal cooking workshops
• Food education programs
• Community gardening services
• Sustainable catering services
• Edible garden consultancy

Headquarters

HQ city

Leeds

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Workshops and Courses: Direct delivery of cooking and growing workshops and courses to communities, schools, and businesses. Offers one-off introductory workshops and longer tailored courses (3-12 sessions for cooking, 4 sessions for growing). Delivered on-site at client locations or online.
2. Seasonal Catering: Catering services using local, seasonal, sustainable food for events and occasions.
3. Consultancy Services: Consultancy work for community organisations, businesses, cafes and restaurants to develop food growing spaces and seasonal menu planning. Includes bid writing for funding.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Season Well CIC is a Leeds-based social enterprise that delivers hands-on cooking and growing workshops, courses, catering, and consultancy focused on local, seasonal, sustainable food. Services are tailored to community organisations, schools, corporate teams, and food businesses through on-site and online sessions, with longer tailored programmes (3-12 sessions) and bespoke garden-development projects.

Product overview

Season Well CIC is a social enterprise offering a portfolio of food education and experiential services focused on helping people grow, cook, and eat local, seasonal food. The core offerings include Seasonal Cooking and Catering services, Workshops and Courses (targeted at community organisations, corporate clients, schools, and food businesses), and Consultancy Services for developing edible gardens. The company operates as a single unified service offering without a technology product, providing hands-on practical cooking and growing education through various engagement formats including one-off workshops, tailored courses, corporate events, and longer-term consultancy projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Seasonal Cooking and Catering Catering services and cooking classes using local, seasonal, sustainable ingredients to create healthy meals for events and occasions.
• Community Workshops and Courses One-off introductory workshops and tailored courses (3-12 sessions) covering seasonal vegetarian cooking, baking, food preservation, microgreens, sustainable shopping and food storage for community organisations.
• Corporate Team Building and Wellbeing Events

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• School Food MatterscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 July 2025Charity running the Young Marketeers food education programme. Season Well joins the programme to help children prepare Mediterranean grain salad and herb dips, demonstrating how school-grown produce can be used in exciting recipes. Eight Leeds schools participated in the market day at Kirkgate Market.
• Incredible Edible LeedsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity food growing initiative. All proceeds from Young Marketeers Market Day are donated to Incredible Edible Leeds. Season Well has used produce from Incredible Edible Aireborough gardens.
• Lemon Balm CICcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTherapeutic horticulture CIC. Co-created the Charter for Climate Friendly Growing with Season Well. Long-term collaborator on Growing Friendship project and Healthy Holidays programme. Also worked together during COVID-19 lockdown on virtual cooking tutorials.
• Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network (LASSN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupport network for asylum seekers. Partner in Growing Friendship project where Season Well helps refugees and asylum seekers grow their own food both at home and by connecting them to community food growing projects across Leeds. Hala from LASSN co-delivered cooking demonstration at RHS Harlow Carr.
• RHS Harlow CarrminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRoyal Horticultural Society garden. Season Well showcased Growing Friendship project at Festival of Flavours and delivered cooking demonstration using fresh produce from the Harlow Carr garden. RHS Community Wellbeing Fund provides funding for refugee and asylum seeker food growing projects.
• Full Circle FuneralsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFuneral directors in Guiseley who have provided the use of their garden for Season Well to develop a kitchen garden and demonstration space. Hosts launch party for the grow-your-own garden project.
• Shared HarmoniesminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSocial enterprise providing Christmas sing-along sessions. Collaborates with Season Well on Seasons Harmony party packages combining cooking/cocktail making with festive singing. Partner for online Christmas party events.
• Orb Community ArtscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArts organisation with productive kitchen garden. Founder Becky Mears started Season Well by running cooking classes for Orb. Jon, their gardener, collaborated on kale growing and recipe development. Orb's kitchen garden sparked the founding of Season Well.
• Harrogate Skills for LivingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLearning disability charity. Season Well team member Helen runs an allotment group for the charity. Produce including borlotti beans is used in Season Well recipes and cooking demonstrations.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• Toast Ale: UK social enterprise brewing beer from surplus bread to address food waste. Shares Season Well's food sustainability and social-enterprise ethos and partnerships with food industry players, though operates in beverages rather than education.

Broad incumbents

• River Cottage: Long-established cookery school and food sustainability brand founded by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in Devon. Offers cookery courses and a broader farm/restaurant portfolio with an emphasis on local, seasonal cooking that overlaps with Season Well's mission.
• Leith's School of Food and Wine: Long-established London cookery school offering professional chef training and short courses for amateur cooks. Comparable course-based food education product, though targeted at professional culinary training and a much larger commercial operation than Season Well.
• School of Artisan Food: Yorkshire-based food education school offering courses in bread-making, cheese-making, and other artisan skills. Same regional footprint as Season Well with overlapping food-education focus, though more artisanal and commercial in orientation.

Direct peers

• Incredible Edible: UK-wide community-led food growing initiative that originated in Todmorden. Direct overlap with Season Well's growing workshops and community food partnerships, with shared values around local food growing and community empowerment.
• The Cookery School: London-based cookery school offering a range of hands-on cooking classes to consumers and corporate clients. Comparable workshop format and product offering to Season Well, though commercially focused rather than community/social-impact led.
• Made in Hackney: London-based community cookery school operating as a non-profit, delivering plant-based cooking workshops and courses to underserved communities. Combines cooking education with social impact in a structure that closely parallels Season Well CIC.
• FoodCycle: UK charity combining surplus food with volunteer cooks to provide community meals while reducing food waste. Shares Season Well's community-led, social-enterprise ethos and food-related community engagement, though focused on meal delivery rather than workshops.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/seasonaleating
• Instagraminstagram.com/seasonwellcic
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/season-well-cic

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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