RJ4All Community Food Hub

RJ4All's Community Food Hub

Building community resilience and confidence through food education

Funded by Hubbub

To relieve poverty and create community cohesion through food and nutrition education.

This food education project complements our successful and oversubscribed Community Community Fridge at the RJ4All Rotherhithe Community Centre which we operate in one of London's most deprived areas. Through our non-referral fridge and this food education education project, we hope to increase community resilience through an improvement in access to fresh ingredients, nutrition education, cultural connection through food, and service users’ confidence when cooking.

Provide cooking and nutrition education including sessions for the community which demonstrate how to use fresh ingredients, including those found in our free Community Fridge, in a simple, quick, and easy way.

Produce online videos related to cooking instruction, nutrition, and developing healthy eating habits. These videos will also highlight different cultures of our service users by showcasing the recipes attached to them.

Supply food education, including healthy food and snack options, to youth during our annual half-term Youth Clubs.

These three activities will provide unique opportunities for our local community to come together using food and nutrition as prompts.

This project is funded by Hubbub.

Latest News!

Watch our latest online food education videos in our Food is Medicine series featured on our RJ4All Sports Channel! This is a free series of short videos with quick and healthy recipes using food as medicine.

Cooking Workshop to end April Youth Club!

On Thurs 6th April we held a community cooking workshop featuring a demonstration and free food parcels with the ingredients of the recipe which was taught by a licensed chef. The class took place on the last day of the Easter Youth Club, so that parents could pick up their kids and end the week with a family cooking demonstration with food parcels. Watch the full video of the class here!

National Pancake Day fun!

We held a healthy pancake making session on this year’s National Pancake Day, 21st February 2023, during our after-school youth club. Our hungry group assembled their pancakes using fresh ingredients

February Youth Club!

We provided healthy breakfast items from our Community Fridge and delicious ready-made lunch boxes which kept our youth energised throughout the day.

The results are IN from our Community Food Survey!

This survey was taken at the start of the project by 20 of our service users who most frequently access our Community Fridge of fresh food, ingredients, and produce.