London Cooking Project

Beautiful lemon possets by resident chef
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Alice is head honcho of all our private events and caterer extraordinaire - after more than 20 years of working in food, she knows her stuff!
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If you’d like to have a chat about holding an event, either at LCP or at home, get in touch on [email protected]
                                                       

Please help our friends and long-term partner Be Enriched! Be Enriched run several kitchens across south London, including the Battersea Canteen at LCP and Brixton People's Kitchen.

Brixton People's Kitchen is a community shop and café catering to local people on low or no income - but they have just been told they have to vacate their premises.

BPK provide a weeks’ worth of essential groceries and cooked food for £5-£10, as well as community activities, to over 270 households each week in North Lambeth, which is a deprived part of London. They also provide volunteering and work opportunities to local disabled people and vulnerable young people, and they provided free food to 5,000 households during the first lockdown.

Their landlord, The Black Prince Community Hub - CEO Kirk Harrison, has served them notice to quit and vacate the premises with only 12 weeks’ notice. They have informed BPK that they have recently had 2 unsolicited enquiries about the premises. BPK were given just two weeks to re-apply for their concession licence without any information - making it clear in no uncertain terms that the offer was never intended to be taken seriously. The new businesses have offered more money for the space, but BPK have been given no opportunity to meet this offer.

In the 13 months that BPK have been in this space, they have built strong relationships within the community. They have turned this disused premises into a popular local space and it has become an anchor for the community.

Their replacement is a commercial outfit that will not be providing any community service, which is desperately needed within this area. With only 12 weeks to go, BPK currently have no new premises to move to and over 5,000 vulnerable people will be left without access to healthy affordable food - all while the fallout from the pandemic continues to hit the most vulnerable communities and those on the lowest incomes with children.

The BBC Recently visited Brixton People's Kitchen and the video can be watched on their Twitter page here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1379511688974712837

BPK is the lifeline that many families need in these uncertain times. Please sign and share this petition to show how much Brixton People’s Kitchen is needed and wanted. Please help us try to convince The Black Prince Community Hub that BPK must remain a part of our community.

Sign the Petition Brixton People's Kitchen - Save Our Community Shop!

We've been keeping our heads down here at LCP whilst we try to navigate these tricky times. With government guidelines changing every five minutes, events have been on the backburner while we get to grips with the new normal.
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Our hearts go out to all the caterers, chefs and people working in hospitality who have had jobs cancelled indefinitely, are still furloughed, have been made redundant or are now trying to operate businesses with restrictive new opening hours. 
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When we first opened in 2015, one of our main aims was to support young foodies on their journey to starting their own business. Whether that was launching their own catering company, taking the leap from hosting a small supper club at home to doing something bigger at a venue, or supporting a chef in trialling their own concept, we've provided a platform that we hope has played a small part in getting their venture off the ground.
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For anyone looking for ways to adapt their business or start a new venture, we wanted to let you know that we are still here to help. 
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Our venue is available to hire for supper clubs that operate under restaurant guidelines, and for any caterers out there looking to branch into delivery, we have space for a new resident chef from November. If you’re interested in joining our family, or have an idea you’d like to chat through, drop us an email on [email protected] - we’d love to help
                                   

Our lovely manager Freya is sadly moving back to Ireland so we're on the hunt for a new Event Sales Manager! If you're passionate about food, highly organised and have experience in organising events, we want to hear from you. See link in bio for full job description 👆👆👆

Our lovely manager Freya is sadly moving back to Ireland so we're on the hunt for a new Event Sales Manager!

If you're passionate about food and highly organised, we want to hear from you.

Based in an old ice factory in Battersea, London Cooking Project is a unique open plan space with four kitchen stations and a dining area that seats up to 40 people. The open plan layout means guests can watch the chefs in action and dine in an immersive and interactive environment.

As well being a fully working commercial kitchen by day, London Cooking Project runs a variety of supper clubs, pop ups and cooking classes that anyone with a passion for food can get involved in, with the aim of nurturing young talent in the food industry.

The space is also offered for free to selected charity partners whose projects are based around food. LCP is committed to benefitting the local community through these activities.

Event Sales Manager role:

Some of London’s most exciting up-and-coming chefs and supper clubbers have held events at LCP including Masterchef 2016 finalists Billy & Jack, Oliver Rowe and Phil Juma from JUMA Kitchen. We have also supported many other first timers through their first pop up.

Other past events include a butchery demo, paella cooking class with London Paella School, singles supper club, ice cream making class with Blu Top Ice Cream and a retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with 5-course Elizabethan dinner.

London Cooking Project is looking for a new Event Sales Manager to manage all event bookings from start to finish. You will be the face of LCP so excellent customer service and communication skills are essential, as well as previous events and sales experience in the food industry. Venue management experience is also welcome.

Responsibilities:

Working alongside the Operations Manager, Marketing Manager and Accounts your responsibilities will include

- Responding to and managing all event and kitchen hire sales from initial enquiry through to the end of the client’s hire
- Following up on leads and maximising event sales conversion from enquiries
- Drawing up contracts and liaising with accounts regarding client/supplier payments and deposit refunds
- Ensuring every renter has correct documents including hygiene certificates, insurance and kitchen registration where appropriate
- Managing the booking of LCP kitchen porters and their monthly rota
- Managing all site visits and kitchen inductions, working with the Operations Manager and resident chefs where necessary
- Managing all charity partner relationships
- Working with marketing to ensure clients’ events are publicised and key messages of charity partners are appropriately communicated


Skills and qualifications:

- Excellent customer service skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Event sales or similar in the food industry
- Ability to multitask and excellent organisational skills
- A passion for food
- Experience of running supper clubs – desirable but not essential
- Venue management experience – desirable but not essential

This role requires 2.5 days a week and is suited to a freelancer with flexible working hours. The selected candidate will be able to work from home but weekly visits will need to be made to the kitchen for site visits and kitchen inductions.

Salary to be discussed on application.

Please email your CV and covering letter to [email protected]