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Space
Guest Chef Series · Supper Club · Wine Dinners · Wine Tasting
London Bridge · SE1 0NQ
A Portuguese wine bar and restaurant in London Bridge with a continuing programme of producer tastings, supper clubs and a guest chef series. The calendar is the reason to return: the 2025 guest chef run has included Miguel Azevedo, Zé Paulo Rocha and Nuno Castro.
Community
Community Meal · Cooking · Food Bus · Surplus Food · Volunteering
Tooting · SW17 9AB
A London food charity running Community Canteens, where volunteers cook a free meal from surplus food. Three locations, every week.
Space
Afternoon Tea · Baking · Biscuit Icing · Prosecco And Icing
Notting Hill · W11 2ES
A biscuit boutique and icing café on Kensington Park Road, running School of Icing classes alongside DIY icing and evening Icing Lates.
Space
Baking Workshops · Bread Making · Doughnut Making · Patisserie
London
A London bakery school with a continuing programme of practical in-person baking workshops and longer professional training. Trial workshops are listed at £60–£62.50.
Community
Community Gardens · Food Growing Network · Training · Volunteering
Bethnal Green (office) · E2 9DA
London's food-growing network, made up of community gardens, allotments and school growing spaces. Membership is free.
Community
Delivering Food · Food Redistribution · Surplus Food · Volunteering
Acton · W3 7QE
A London food redistribution charity that rescues surplus food and delivers it free to community projects. Its volunteer programme runs on a rolling basis and is open to new applications.
Space
Coffee Cupping · Coffee Workshops · Latte Art · Roastery Tours
Hackney · E8 3SB
An East London roaster whose Hackney HQ is also a coffee academy. The Cupping Club is bookable, and the workshop programme runs from £90 to £150.
Community
Community Cooking · Cookery Courses · Health Cooking · Mens Club · Volunteering
Islington · N1 9QZ
An Islington community interest company running free cooking courses and clubs for local people, including a men's cooking club. The courses run over several weeks rather than as one-offs.
Space
Bread Making · Cook And Dine · Cookery Classes · Knife Skills · Supper Clubs
Knightsbridge
A cookery school inside Divertimenti's Knightsbridge shop, running a scheduled programme for amateurs through to experienced cooks. The kitchen is also hired out for supper clubs and cook-and-dine events.
Community
Bulk Buying · Co Operative · Volunteering · Wholefoods Retail
Walworth · SE17 3AE
A volunteer-run wholefood co-op in Walworth, open three days a week, where you weigh out bulk goods yourself. Around £400 a month in donations keeps it running.
Community
Catering · Hospitality Training · Mentoring · Supper Clubs
Shoreditch · E1 6PJ
A London charity running the Milestone Programme, a long-term hospitality training scheme for people living in temporary accommodation. Catering and supper events run alongside it.
Community
Community Meal · Cooking · Hosting · Surplus Food · Volunteering
Peckham (one of several London projects) · SE15 4QS
A charity cooking free weekly community meals from surplus food, made and served by local volunteers. There are several projects across London, and the Peckham Saturday meal is one of them.
Experience
Community Meal · Surplus Food Cooking · Volunteering
W9
A free weekly meal at Ark Atwood Primary, cooked by local volunteers from food that would otherwise go to waste. Tuesdays at 5pm, for pupils and their families.
Experience
Community Meal · Surplus Food Cooking · Volunteering
SE1
A free community meal in SE1, cooked by local volunteers and shared with Globe Academy pupils, their families and the wider neighbourhood. Tuesdays, 6pm.
Experience
Community Meal · Surplus Food Cooking · Volunteering
SW11
A free community meal in SW11, cooked by local volunteers for John Archer Primary pupils and their families. Wednesdays, 5pm.
Experience
Community Meal · Surplus Food Cooking · Volunteering
Old Street · EC1V 9NH
A free community meal at Vibast Community Centre on Old Street, cooked by local volunteers from surplus food. Tuesdays at 7pm, open to anyone from the neighbourhood, no booking.
Experience
Community Meal · Surplus Food Cooking · Volunteering
SE17
A free weekly meal at Surrey Square Primary, cooked by local volunteers from surplus food. Wednesdays at 6pm, for pupils and their families.
Experience
Community Meal · Surplus Food Cooking · Volunteering
Tottenham · N17 0JR
A free community meal at St Paul's Church, cooked by local volunteers from surplus food. Wednesdays at 7pm, open to anyone, no booking.
Experience
Community Meal · Surplus Food Cooking · Volunteering
White City · W12
A free weekly meal at White City Primary, cooked by local volunteers from surplus food. Thursdays at 6pm, for pupils and their families.
Community
Community Growing · Cooking · Gardening Sessions · Volunteering
King's Cross and Somers Town
A King's Cross charity running gardens where local people grow, cook and eat together. A weekly volunteer session covers gardening and building.
Community
Community Growing · Food Growing · Veg Box Scheme · Volunteering
Stoke Newington / Hackney
A Hackney social enterprise running a weekly organic veg bag scheme from its own market gardens. A regular volunteer growing team works the same ground.
Community
Community Growing · Cooking · Herb Growing · Short Courses · Volunteering
Hackney Wick · E9 5LD
A Hackney social enterprise growing and using herbs and food, with a free weekly session and free six-week community courses. Weekly sessions run on Wednesdays, 11am to 1.30pm.
Space
City Farm · Community Group · Gardening · Volunteering
Kentish Town · NW5 4BN
A charity city farm in Kentish Town, with a monthly volunteer group and regular adult volunteering shifts. Entry is free.
Experience
Shared Table Dining · Supper Club · Tasting Menu
Holborn
A monthly supper club in a Holborn studio: an eight-course multisensory tasting menu, served at one shared table. Seats are limited.
Space
Cheese Tasting · Cheese Workshops · Chef Tables · Suppers · Wine Tasting
Marylebone · W1U 4EW
A Marylebone cheese shop with a rolling ticketed programme attached to it. Monday Suppers are £45, and the wider calendar of workshops and chef's tables runs from £30 to £145.
Space
Bread Making · Cookery Skills · Culinary Diploma · Open Evenings · Patisserie
London
A London culinary school with an 18-week diploma and a year-round teaching calendar covering bread, patisserie and cookery skills. Professional-development courses run alongside, and open evenings are listed among the dates.
Group
Club Meetings · Competition · Home Brewing · Tasting
London-wide (meeting place changes)
A free home-brewing club that has met in London since 2007, with two club meetings a month and an annual brewing competition. There are no fees or dues; membership is turning up.
Group
Dinner · Networking · Speaker Events · Wine Tasting
Central London (meeting place varies)
A membership wine club for women, meeting once a month for a themed dinner with a guest speaker. Each dinner is held in a private London Space, with the food and wine built around the theme.
Community
Community Food Market · Cooking · Surplus Food · Training · Volunteering
Harrow · HA3 5BD
A surplus-food charity in north-west London, running a weekly community food market alongside kitchens and training programmes. The market runs every Friday, 3–6pm.
Space
Community Food Events · Fermentation · Plant Based Cookery · Tea Tasting
Clapton · E5 9AA
A plant-based community cookery school at Liberty Hall in Clapton, where the Communi-Tea series gathers people around tea, food knowledge and guest speakers. Three community events run this autumn, free and donation-based.
Space
Community Garden · Food Growing · Gardening · Volunteering
Kensal Town · W10 5BN
A membership community garden in north Kensington, with growing space and volunteers always welcome. Tasks run from practical work in the gardens to administrative and project work, and it is free to use.
Community
Cookery Classes · Shared Meal · Volunteering · World Cuisines
London
A refugee and migrant-led cookery programme running family-style classes in community kitchens across London, where participants cook and eat together. Each class cycle stays at the same kitchen, with different chefs and facilitators week to week.
Community
Co Operative · Community Growing · Food Growing · Veg Box Scheme · Volunteering
Chingford
A workers' co-operative growing food on London's edge, at Chingford. Volunteer inductions run monthly, and open volunteering days run twice a week.
Space
Guided Tasting · Tea Education · Tea Tasting
Mayfair · W1S 1AG
A Mayfair tea shop whose Tea School runs guided tastings twice a week, with a different tea theme for each week of the month. The teas come from regions the team have visited, and each tasting is accompanied by illustrated tasting notes.
Community
Cooking · Food Poverty · Street Food Service · Volunteering
Gospel Oak
A volunteer-run kitchen cooking from scratch to serve free meals at street-side services. The London operation now runs weekly across eight locations.
Space
Asian Cookery · Dim Sum · Soju Tasting · Sushi Making · Wok Cookery
London
An Asian cookery school with a rolling, dated calendar of hands-on classes — wok cookery, sushi, dim sum, soju tasting. A five-week masterclass series, Flavours of Asia, runs alongside the single sessions.
Community
Community Cafe · Community Kitchen · Cooking · Foodbank · Volunteering
Stonebridge · NW10 0PW
A Brent food-poverty charity running a food bank alongside a weekly community kitchen and café, both staffed by volunteers. Meals are free or affordable.
Community
Co Operative Ownership · Community Farming · Veg Box Scheme · Volunteering
Wallington
A community-owned farm in Wallington, growing organic veg. It is owned by community shareholders and worked by volunteers who come back week after week.
Space
Baking Classes · Cookery Classes · Date Night Cooking · Week Courses
Wandsworth · SW18 1FZ
A Wandsworth cookery school with a year-round programme of hands-on classes, from social evenings to one- and two-week chef-led courses.
Space
Bottomless Cheese · Cheese Tasting · Conveyor Belt Cheese · Meet The Makers
Camden / Seven Dials
A British-cheese bar group with a conveyor belt at the centre of it. Every Wednesday its Bottomless Plates session runs unlimited cheese, charcuterie and pickles at £29.50 per person for 75 minutes, with a Meet the Makers series alongside.
Group
Learning · Social Club · Wine Tasting
Central London (meeting place varies)
A London social wine club running monthly themed tastings of six wines, for people who want to learn about wine and meet others. Ticketed and held in central London, in a Space that changes from event to event.
Community
Delivering Food · Food Redistribution · Sorting Food · Surplus Food · Volunteering
Park Royal and Poplar depots (London-wide)
A food redistribution charity, rescuing surplus food and delivering it to community organisations. A large volunteer force sorts and moves it out from two depots.
Space
Beer Tasting · Spirits Tasting · Wine Education · Wine Tasting
Tufnell Park / Greenwich / Blackheath
An independent wine merchant that has run shop tastings since 2002, covering wine, beer and spirits. The shops are in Tufnell Park, Greenwich and Blackheath.
Experience
Community Meal · Cooking · Social Club · Surplus Food · Volunteering
Tooting · SW17 9PP
A weekly community meal in Tooting, cooked from surplus food by volunteers and free to anyone who comes. A Monday social club runs alongside it.
Space
Barista Training · Coffee Cupping · Coffee Masterclasses · Coffee Tasting
Belgravia · SW1W 9LT
A Belgravia speciality-coffee café with a training academy in the basement, running hands-on masterclasses, monthly origin cuppings and tastings. The linked masterclasses are listed at £95.