Episode Notes for the Share Your Secrets Podcast Season 4 Episodes 4-6, including useful links to resources and more information about the interviewees.
Help Us Grow
Funders and individuals have a key role in the expansion of our organisation.
The generosity of funding organisations and individuals has always been vital for the growth of Bounceback Food CIC. We started out with a £250 grant that funded the development of our first market stall, and have since grown to support communities across the country.
However, as a social enterprise, we recognise the importance of moving away from grant funding towards self-sustainability.
Through our ‘buy one, give one’ cookery workshops, we have been able to create a financially viable and truly inclusive Community Cookery School. From 2019-2021, we developed, wrote and published our popular Secret Dishes From Around the World cookbook trilogy to help fund our outreach work.
In 2021, we launched our Food Poverty Innovation Award. This £250 grant, start up support and mentoring from our central team will develop another project fighting food poverty elsewhere in the UK. Just as Bounceback Food began with a small grant, we hope to help other social entrepreneurs support their own community.
In 2022, we are developing a greater range of fundraiser merchandise. The new products (chopping boards, recipe calendars and tote bags) will help us as we expand nationwide and establish Bounceback Food teams across the UK. By 2024, we aim to have teams operational in at least 20 different locations.
We aim for our non-profit social enterprise to be self-sustainable by 2024. Until then, we would love to hear from you and explore how our partnership could help to accelerate growth and scale up our social impact.
This national learning programme delivered by The School for Social Entrepreneurs was vital for the development of our Community Cookery School.
Our central team learned how to increase organisation resilience and were encouraged to develop different income streams – which subsequently inspired the development of our Secret Dishes From Around the World trilogy!
During the Covid lockdowns funding from R Time in Stockport gave our Manchester team the opportunity to support pupils in Romiley and Bredbury by running one of our Future Community Chefs programmes! The young people involved took part in supervised cookalongs that enabled them all to develop a range of cooking and employability skills.
We started out with a £250 grant from Newcastle University’s Rise Up programme, that funded the development of our first market stall in Salford.
Without this early stage support and validation, our Community Cookery School wouldn’t have developed into the organisation it is today!
Bounceback Food CIC started with a small cash grant and so we’ve now committed annually to supporting an early stage social entrepreneur, community group or local charity that shares our ambition to eradicate food poverty nationwide!
We need to support and encourage people to test and develop new, ambitious ideas within their community. Learn more about the inaugural award here.
Crowdfunding has helped us fundraise for a variety of different projects, including the development of our Secret Dishes From Around the World cookbook series and Bounceback chopping boards, recipe calendars and tote bags.
We have an ongoing fundraising page on Crowdfunder if you’d like to make a donation and support our work.
Interested in supporting the development of our organisation?
Help our Community Cookery School team provide 5,000 additional meals and cookery classes in warm hubs this winter!
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