Community Catering CIC was first established in 2018 as a Private Ltd Company with a big lean towards social responsibility - we quickly transferred to a Community Interest Company (not for profit) which suited our ethos better. We are a food-creation business providing exceptional quality and value fresh food to corporate businesses throughout the North East. We also provide excellent catering services to retirement and care schemes, social services, schools and colleges. We aim to create jobs for local people, work experience for volunteers, and we aim to provide skills and work training for unemployed local people. By ordering your food from us you are not only getting excellent, fresh, wholesome and nutritious food – you are helping to create real job opportunities for real people.
OUR PURPOSE AND VALUES
We now operate a Community Cafe Restaurant in a purpose-built Retirement Village: Willow Brook, Spout Lane, Washington NE28 2AG. The cafe follows the same culinary purpose and values as our corporate catering - to research and produce the very best traditional local, national and international recipes to remind us all just how good British food can be. We very much value creating jobs; we value our staff and our customers and we strive to offer great service, great quality food and honest pricing.
OUR FOOD
All our food dishes are home-made, using the best-quality products; we source fresh ingredients from local markets and prepare and cook them with care and skill. Our food is nutritious because we balance the ingredients used, to make sure our dishes contain the vitamins and minerals required for good health.
Our Social Aims
1. To promote understanding of the employment training needs of marginalised, unemployed people in Tyne and Wear.
2. To facilitate the training and development for work of disadvantaged, marginalised, unemployed people in Tyne and Wear.
3. To advance the employment prospects of disadvantaged, marginalised, unemployed people in Tyne and Wear.
4. To aim for long-term ‘social profit’ by getting disadvantaged, marginalised people into work and contributing to their communities and society.
To provide services to corporate business, private individuals, community and supported projects, as a platform to fund skill-training of disadvantaged, marginalised, unemployed people in Tyne and Wear.
a) To provide excellent catering, services to the corporate market place.
b) To promote and provide training, leading to employment, to , marginalised and disadvantaged people in Tyne and Wear, through real work experience and training (within the above businesses), advice and guidance
c) To promote work culture and citizenship values in the UK
d) To work in partnership with other organisations to seek solutions to the barriers and problems encountered by the marginalised community in the UK
e) To help the marginalised attain real skills for work, enabling them to integrate and contribute to the UK society
f) To advise about the benefits of training in the UK
g) To promote social inclusion and social integration among the disadvantage and marginalised and help them to find employment
h) To discourage segregation, self-marginalisation and socially isolation of unemployed