Food for thought CIC

28/02/2026

Fake-Away for adults is in full swing at the Dorothy Parkes Centre in Smethwick and we genuinely love working alongside their team.

Week 1: Hake-Away fishcakes, crushed peas and proper tartar sauce.

Week 2: Butternut squash & cauliflower curry, handmade chapatis and fresh cucumber raita.

This isn’t a one-off class. It’s a six-week course building real confidence knife skills, seasoning, flavour understanding, and replacing the takeaway habit with “I can cook THAT myself”.

Proper adult learning. Practical. Supportive. Impactful.

Proud to deliver this in partnership with The Dorothy Parkes Centre

28/02/2026

24/02/2026

Little Chefs – Hatchford Brook | April Intake (Ages 9–14)

Mondays | 3:30pm – 5:30pm

We’re opening a new round of Little Chefs this April for young people aged 9–14 and their families.

Every two weeks, we welcome just 3 families into the kitchen — small groups, proper structure, real impact.

This isn’t a drop-off club.
This is families cooking together and building confidence that lasts.

We focus on:
• Seasonal ingredients
• Using surplus wisely
• Making proper meals from what’s already at home
• Teaching skills that 9–14 year olds can genuinely take ownership of

Week 1 – We cook a dish together and sit down for a shared family meal.
Week 2 – Families return and cook that dish themselves, building independence and pride.

At this age, children are more than capable. They just need the space and guidance.

£8 per child
Maximum 2 children per adult
£20 booking fee (fully refunded when the full course is attended)

Spaces are limited to keep it personal and high impact.

To book, message via Facebook or WhatsApp 07875 650034.

Food for Thought
Nourishing Bodies, Healing Minds

19/02/2026

Flour on the tables. Sauce on the spoons. Big aprons. Bigger smiles. Thank you Priti Draper & Amy Delaney for what you have helped achieve for today!

Today our Little Chefs didn’t just make pizza they, rolled, chose, supported each other and owned their food. Confidence grew with every stretch of dough.

No screens. No shortcuts. Just hands in flour and minds switched on.

And none more so than the Little Chefs’ Moms who stepped up to lead. Calm. Capable. Committed. Even when they are reassuring everyone that it’s just a drill when the smoke alarms go off 😅.

Proof that when community backs itself, powerful things happen.

This is how we build confidence.
This is how we build independence.
This is how we build community.

Nourishing Bodies. Healing Minds.

16/02/2026

First Little Chefs session today at The Dorothy Parkes Centre and it just worked.

Children cooking, parents joining in, then everyone sitting down to eat something they made themselves confidence grows fast when food is real.

This is what Food for Thought is about.
Not feeding people, but helping families realise their potential.

Supported by Tesco Stronger Starts and already doing exactly what it should.

We’re now opening this up to more communities.

If your organisation wants to host, support or be part of something practical that genuinely changes family life let’s talk.

16/02/2026

We've had an incredible response to this course and it is now fully booked. If you didn't secure a place this time, please be mindful that we are running another nine courses similar to this throughout the year so please do keep an eye on our website and socials for further details.

13/02/2026

Thoughtful Fake Away at The Dorothy Parkes Centre is six sessions built around the meals people actually order at the end of a long day fishcakes, curry night, burgers, sweet and sour, fried chicken, burrito bowls but done properly. Real ingredients. Real flavour. No pressure.

This is about confidence. About saving money.
About breaking the takeaway habit without losing the joy of the food.

If you’ve been meaning to get back into cooking, this is your nudge.

Free adult cooking sessions.
Book through Dorothy Parkes.
Food for Thought Nourishing Bodies, Healing Minds.

13/02/2026

We’ve been nominated for the 9th Midlands Food, Drink & Hospitality Awards 2026.

Food for Thought is a contract caterer and educator, but at our core we are something more. We use food provision as a frontline tool for mental health support, confidence building and early intervention.

We’re working to embed wellbeing into hospitality itself – not as an afterthought, but as infrastructure.

To be recognised in an industry we are actively trying to reshape means a lot.

This isn’t just about plates of food.
It’s about changing culture.

04/02/2026

Really proud to be delivering NeuroSpicy alongside Super SEN CIC.

This programme is about creating calm, structured, hands-on family cooking sessions where children and young people with SEND can build confidence around food without pressure.

“Exploration without expectation” says it perfectly.

Thanks to the Kingshurst Together Community Fund for backing this work and making these sessions possible at Evergreen Family Hub.

For us at Food for Thought, this is what it’s about — practical skills, shared experiences, and safe spaces where families cook together, learn together and grow together.

If you know a family who would benefit, please get in touch with Super SEN CIC directly to book.

Nourishing bodies. Healing minds.

We still have a few spaces for families on our next Neurospicy Family cooking sessions with Food for Food for thought CIC
Thanks to the Kingshurst Together Community Fund, we have been donated £500 to host a set of Neurospicy Cooking sessions at Evergreen Family Hub.

Due to the time it may suit home ed children/young people or children/young people who are currently out of school. This will be for a max of 5/6 families.

As always our sessions are family sessions and its always "exploration without expectation"

To book please email supersencic@gmail.com or message below

Evergreen Family Hub Kingshurst
Solihull Council Elective Home Education

29/01/2026

Made a link with FareShare today a small step that feels like a big one.

For me, Food for Thought CIC is about doing food properly: reducing waste, respecting ingredient as well as the people and turning surplus into meals people are proud to eat and want to eat!

Excited for what this unlocks for the families, young people and communities.