The Friendly Food Club is Dorset’s cooking and food education charity.  Our enthusiastic team delivers cookery workshops and food education and skills sessions in the community, including friendly and social cooking programmes for disadvantaged and marginalised adults and children, including cookery skills, healthy eating and therapeutic cooking sessions, and community meals for elderly and vulnerable groups.

For 17 years, The Staff Canteen has been the meeting place for chefs and hospitality professionals—your stories, your skills, your space.

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Together, we keep the industry connected. Together, we move forward.