The team behind Sheffield’s newest food hall, Cambridge St Collective has committed to supporting Sheffield Children’s Hospital through a new partnership with The Children’s Hospital Charity.
The new food hall offers a variety of vendors from across the world, featuring kitchens from Greece, Palestine, Nepal and more, but what you might not see from the outset is the facility featured right in the heart of it all, the Blend Culinary Foundation.
Bringing together the community, food and local causes, the Blend Culinary Foundation has committed to providing one million meals for the local population who need them to try and combat food poverty in the local area.
As part of their mission, the team has partnered with The Children’s Hospital Charity to support patients and families at Sheffield Children’s through as many avenues as possible.
Numerous departments at Sheffield Children’s have already benefitted from using Blend Culinary Foundations’ cooking facility at Cambridge St Collective. Helping to run sessions for families and patients to teach about different ways to cook depending on their dietary needs and treatment plans, Blend Culinary Foundation is making a huge impact on the patient experience.
Alongside this, every month the team has delivered pizzas to the cancer and leukaemia ward at Sheffield Children’s, gifting pizzas to patients and families during the most difficult of times.
The cooking facility at Cambridge St Collective also hosted as a pledge day for ambassadors of The Children’s Hospital Charity. Ambassadors came together to make meals for parents staying at Sheffield Children’s to be frozen and put into freezers around the hospital.
After a recent visit to see the facilities at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, CEOs of Blend Family, Matt and Nina Bigland, said: “We have always known about the work that Sheffield Children’s Hospital does, but after visiting the hospital last month, we were blown away by the amazing facilities and staff teams.”
As part of the foundation’s commitment to providing meals and helping to aid food poverty, they are also supporting the local S6 food bank and offering businesses team away days to cook together and make meals for the food bank, to be frozen and given to those who need it.
To find out more about the Blend Culinary Foundation and support the work they are doing please visit cambridgestreetcollective.com/blend-culinary-foundation-booking.
