Cracking Good Food

Cookery Schools | Community Cooking | Catering & Business Initiatives

Sharing cooking skills and our love of good food for all communities, fighting for

sustainable food security across Greater Manchester and beyond.

“Everyone deserves good food”

As a social enterprise our aim is to encourage and support people to cook affordable, seasonal and nutritious homemade food from scratch. Driven by our belief that EVERYONE DESERVES GOOD FOOD, our mission is simple: to alleviate food, fuel and kitchen kit poverty and increase food security in Greater Manchester and beyond.

COMMUNITY

Empowering affordable, accessible, sustainable and enjoyable cooking-from-scratch across some of Greater Manchester’s most side-lined communities.

COOKERY SCHOOL

Breadmaking, Cantonese, Pasta, Japanese, Foraging and so much more! Bookings support core running costs enabling us to work in communities.

TEAMBUILDING & PARTIES

Anytime, anywhere! Food brings people together, we would love to cook with you.

CATERING

Looking for catering for your event or gathering?

FOOD WASTE

At Cracking Good Food we are extremely mindful of the horrific amount of food waste created within our food systems, and the huge impact that has on our wallets, our diets and the environment.

SUPPORT US

he are many ways you and your company can support Cracking Good Food. It’s not always about money – we value opportunities to boost self-esteem and training through to re-purposing pre-loved cooking equipment to physically getting involved and giving your time..

ABOUT US

Cracking Good Food launched in 2010, with the aim of encouraging and supporting more people to cook affordable, seasonal and nutritious homemade food from scratch.

GET INVOLVED

Sponsor a table at our Spring Carnival COOK-Up! Help cook 1,500+ meals for Manchester’s homeless, fight food waste, and enjoy an inspiring teambuilding and networking experience.

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Make a difference to communities currently living in food poverty. Your donation will help us inspire and educate communities and individuals to know and appreciate the importance of good food .

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Cracking Good Food is supported by over 100 volunteers without whom we would not be able to deliver our extensive programme of cookery classes, courses, workshops and demos.

we need you!

See here for our 2024 Annual Report and 2023-2024 final accounts.

2024 Annual Report available summer 2025.

COMMUNITY COOKING

Find out more about the full range of our historic community outreach work from 2010 up to 2019.

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We won Best Business in 2018.

This 1 minute film is about what we do, and was voted upon by the public.

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MEET OUR TEAM

TRACEY TORLEY

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DIANE HERROD

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TRACEY COLES

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JAMES FISHER

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ELLIE HUGHES

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Meet The Rest of The Team

OUR VALUES

As a company and as individuals we value:

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  • Co-operative and collaborative working

  • Flexibility and enthusiasm

  • Integrity and honesty

  • Care for customers as well as food

  • Respect for our environment

  • Supporting the local economy

  • Fair pay

  • Constructive self-criticism for organisational improvement

  • Sustainability, as individuals, as an organisation and in a wider context