WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.800 Hello and welcome to Global Plant Kitchens by Made In Hackney. 2 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:08.119 You've hopefully landed on this site because you're interested 3 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:11.400 in setting up a vegan community cookery school. 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.560 In 2012, I did exactly that and since then 5 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.680 me and the Made In Hackney family have been on an incredible journey, 6 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:23.360 inspiring people to grow, cook and eat more plants. 7 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:26.360 Achieving all this hasn't been easy. 8 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:31.000 Yes, we've delivered and pioneered some really amazing projects, 9 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:36.040 but we've also made a lot of mistakes along the way, still making them in fact. 10 00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:39.040 Because after all, that's how you learn. 11 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:42.600 In Global Plant Kitchens, we've consolidated 12 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:47.440 over a decade's worth of learning and experience into a course 13 00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:53.120 and toolkit with lots of templates, examples and stories which you can 14 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:58.080 then use to accelerate your plant-based food education journey. 15 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:02.640 But before we jump into the course, here's a quick lowdown on everything Made In Hackney 16 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:08.360 gets up to these days, which is a lot more than just cookery classes. 17 00:01:08.360 --> 00:01:11.200 Welcome to Made In Hackney! 18 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.440 Our mission is to tackle health inequalities, food access, 19 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:18.200 the climate crisis, and bring communities 20 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.280 together using the power of plants. 21 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.960 So how do we do all that? 22 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:26.560 Since 2012, our plant-based community 23 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.000 cookery school has delivered over 4000 24 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.760 joyful classes to people in London and beyond, 25 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.800 inspiring more people to cook, grow and eat more plants. 26 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:41.920 Amazing things happen in these sessions. 27 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:46.280 People learn to cook from scratch, create life changing eating habits, 28 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.960 learn new cultural cuisines, make friends, and gain 29 00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:53.440 the vital skills to nourish themselves and their families. 30 00:01:53.440 --> 00:02:01.360 Kids learn to cook, eat and enjoy vegetables. 31 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:05.000 Since being diagnosed as diabetic and changing my diet, 32 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.800 my sugar levels have come down, which is amazing. 33 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:12.000 In the space of three weeks. 34 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.360 I come from a very meat heavy family, so I have like 35 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.840 not really eaten that many vegan recipes, so I'm glad to find out that 36 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:20.520 it actually does taste nice. 37 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:21.760 And what else do we do? 38 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:26.840 We hold regular community feasts to share joy and build bridges and celebrate 39 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:33.000 different cultural cuisines. Each year we save 20 tonnes of food to landfill 40 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.080 and provide 70,000 free meals 41 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:39.640 delivered by cycle couriers to households who need support with food. 42 00:02:42.320 --> 00:02:45.880 It's very difficult for me to cook anything because I'm blind. 43 00:02:45.880 --> 00:02:52.040 They make a really big difference to our lives. 44 00:02:52.040 --> 00:02:56.120 I'm elderly and disabled, 45 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.840 so I just appreciate very much what they're doing. 46 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:05.560 Our name might be Made In Hackney, but what we do, reaches so much further, 47 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:09.880 our Plant Futures programme tours nationally, inspiring hospitals, schools, 48 00:03:09.880 --> 00:03:13.880 caterers, businesses and community groups to go more plant-based. 49 00:03:13.880 --> 00:03:17.280 This programme is epic as it leads to thousands 50 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.520 more better tasting plant-based meals across the country. 51 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.640 And we're now international. 52 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:25.720 You can tune into our online classes 53 00:03:25.720 --> 00:03:28.720 everywhere in the world. We have a global programme 54 00:03:28.720 --> 00:03:31.720 where we are sharing our learnings from the last decade. 55 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:35.800 We're not just a cookery school. 56 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.040 We're part of a movement. Join us! 57 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:41.680 Get involved, support us today. 58 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:44.800 Okay. 59 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.200 So now it's time for you to start your own vegan community cookery school. 60 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:52.800 And we're going to be right here with you on this journey.