What is Meal Makers?

Meal Makers is a project which encourages and facilitates people to cook and share an extra portion of food with an older person living locally who could really benefit from a delicious, free, home cooked meal from a friendly neighbour.

How it works

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Cook signs up and completes criminal record

check and food hygiene test

Local Recruiters find Diners and help to sign them up

Cooks search for local Diners, Meal Makers team

help make the match.

Cook and Diner arrange a date and time for a meal

share

Cook delivers tasty home cooked meal to their diner

Long Term Benefits

Tackle malnutrition

Encourages intergenerational community cohesion

Helps tackle the digital divide

Reduce social isolation

Launch dates and progress so far

Went live in Dundee: 4th August 2014Went live in Glasgow: 5th January 2015Went live in Perth & Kinross: 8th September 2015

807 Meals shared

441 hours of befriending

103 ‘Cooks’ and ‘Diners’ matched

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Total Meal Shares (Cumulative)

Meal Makers in Pictures

Mapping the progress

Contact details

0800 783 7770

8 hello@mealmakers.org.uk

* Room 28, Hydepark Business Centre, 60 Mollinsburn Street, Glasgow, G21 4SF

www.mealmakers.org.uk