Open Kitchen Social Club

Open Kitchen Social Club was founded in 2014 as a social eating project in the centre of Sheffield. We provide food, peer support, and a place to meet for destitute asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and anyone in food or social poverty.

Freshly cooked food is shared free of charge each week, as part of our social café sessions, to ensure that it is accessible to those in need and that everyone remains on equal terms. We do not operate a 'pay-as-you-feel' system - though donations are very much welcomed, of course (see 'support us' page).

We also cater for external events, offering members of our community work experience opportunities (paid, when possible): cooking at commercial events, while at the same time helping to raise funds for our activities.

We are a nomadic café working from various venues. We do not (as yet, we can dream!) have any premises of our own. We run our free social café sessions each Monday and Tuesday & also during the last Wednesday's Multi Agency Drop-In of each month (see 'regular cafes' page for details).

When Covid-19 hit, we moved to a delivery system, and delivered an estimated 12,000 food parcels of our freshly prepared, ready-to-eat meals plus fresh fruit and veg (courtesy of Beanies Wholefoods Co-op), dried/tinned goods (thanks to Burngreave foodbank) and cooked curries (thanks to the Bhaji Shop) to our community and those in need all over Sheffield.

We host specialist advice and support sessions, such as Hope English School's ESOL classes provided during our Monday sessions.

As well as our regular cafes we enjoy awaydays, concerts and other trips with our members, building our community and friendship strengths.

Open Kitchen Social Club promo from Ian Nesbitt on Vimeo.