Speaker: Dan Ford - Square Food Foundation

Square Food Foundation have been teaching people to cook for 25 years. They teach people of all ages and abilities how to cook, with the aim of reducing hunger, improving health, and bringing people together. Their students are: primary school children, families accessing food banks, elderly adults at risk of chronic loneliness, people with learning disabilities, people with mental health challenges, young people excluded from mainstream education, and young adults not in education, employment, or training (NEET).

They provide a safe, welcoming teaching environment which enables people to develop vital life skills, to make healthier choices which impact their physical health and to build confidence, social skills, and mental wellbeing.

Alongside their free and subsidised programmes, they offer teambuilding, private hire and event catering. All profits from these schemes go to the charity to fund their food education work in the community.