Long Table Kitchen
People of all ages sharing a meal at a long table in a bright hall

Nobody eats alone on Thursdays.

A hot meal at one long table, five nights a week, for anyone who walks through the door.

Come and eat
meals served at the table this year 18,640 meals served this year

Every one cooked from donated food that would otherwise have been thrown away, by a kitchen of forty volunteers.

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One kitchen, three ways in.

How it works
Volunteers cooking with large steel pots

Cook with us

Shifts from 3 pm, no experience needed.
Crates of donated vegetables and bread

Give surplus food

Shops, farms and bakeries, collected daily.
A volunteer on a cargo bike with meal boxes

Meals to the door

By cargo bike, for neighbours who can't come in.

Come as you are.

No forms, no referral. Pull up a chair, Monday to Friday from 6 pm.

Find the hall

News

All news
Children doing homework at the end of the long table

Homework club joins the Thursday table
A cargo bike on a terraced street

A second cargo bike for the north end
Donated produce on a trolley

Three new bakeries give their surplus
The kitchen at work

The kitchen gets a new range
A red-brick former school with open doors and bikes outside

Find the hall

Where
The Old School, 9 Mill Row, Ashby Vale
Meals
Mon to Fri, 6 pm
Email
hello@longtable.example
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