WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.800 Hello and welcome to Global Plant Kitchens by Made In Hackney. 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:08.120 You've hopefully landed on this site because you're interested 00:00:08.120 --> 00:00:11.400 in setting up a vegan community cookery school. 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.560 In 2012, I did exactly that and since then 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.680 me and the Made In Hackney family have been on an incredible journey, 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:23.360 inspiring people to grow, cook and eat more plants. 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:26.360 Achieving all this hasn't been easy. 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:30.220 Yes, we've delivered and pioneered some really amazing projects. 00:00:30.220 --> 00:00:34.030 But we've also made a lot of mistakes along the way. 00:00:34.030 --> 00:00:39.050 Still making them in fact. Because after all, that's how you learn. 00:00:39.070 --> 00:00:42.600 In Global Plant Kitchens, we've consolidated 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:47.440 our over a decade's worth of learning and experience into a course 00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:53.120 and toolkit with lots of templates, examples and stories which you can 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:58.000 then use to accelerate your plant-based food education journey. 00:00:58.050 --> 00:01:01.300 But before we jump into the course, here's a quick lowdown on 00:01:01.300 --> 00:01:04.300 everything Made In Hackney gets up to these days. 00:01:04.300 --> 00:01:07.200 Which is a lot more than just cookery classes. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.200 Welcome to Made In Hackney! 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.000 Our mission is to tackle health inequalities, food access, 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.000 the climate crisis, and bring communities 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.000 together using the power of plants. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.500 So how do we do all that? 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:26.000 Since 2012, our plant-based community 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.500 cookery school has delivered over 4000 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:33.260 joyful classes to people in London and beyond. 00:01:33.260 --> 00:01:38.300 Inspiring more people to cook, grow and eat more plants. 00:01:38.300 --> 00:01:41.420 Amazing things happen in these sessions. 00:01:41.420 --> 00:01:45.900 People learn to cook from scratch, create life changing eating habits, 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:49.200 learn new cultural cuisines, make friends 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.000 and gain the vital skills to nourish themselves and their families. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.400 Kids learn to cook, eat and enjoy vegetables. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:04.900 Since being diagnosed as diabetic and changing my diet, 00:02:04.900 --> 00:02:08.500 my sugar levels have come down, which is amazing. 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:11.500 In the space of three weeks. 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:15.100 I come from a very meat heavy family, so I have like 00:02:15.100 --> 00:02:18.500 not really eaten that many vegan recipes, so I'm glad to find out that 00:02:18.500 --> 00:02:20.100 it does taste nice. 00:02:20.100 --> 00:02:21.400 And what else do we do? 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.000 We hold regular community feasts to share joy, build bridges 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:26.900 and celebrate different cultural cuisines. 00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:29.500 Each week the community comes together 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:33.000 to cook hundreds of nutritious, multicultural meals. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.200 Participants take these meals home to nourish themselves for the week. 00:02:36.200 --> 00:02:39.000 And the rest are delivered by cycle couriers 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.000 to food banks and people's homes. 00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:46.000 It's very difficult for me to cook anything because I'm blind. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:54.000 I'm elderly and disabled, so I just appreciate very much what they're doing. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.300 Our name might be Made In Hackney, but what we do, reaches so much further. 00:02:59.300 --> 00:03:04.000 Our Plant Prospects programme works nationally. Inspiring universities and 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:08.200 schools, caterers, hospitals, businesses and community groups 00:03:08.200 --> 00:03:10.070 to go more plant-based. 00:03:10.470 --> 00:03:12.280 This programme is epic 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:16.200 as it leads to thousands more better tasting plant-based meals 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:17.400 across the country. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.020 And we're now international. 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:23.170 You can tune into our online classes everywhere in the world. 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.000 We have a global programme 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.750 where we are sharing our learnings from the last decade. 00:03:30.010 --> 00:03:31.800 We're not just a cookery school. 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.700 We're part of a movement. 00:03:33.700 --> 00:03:35.000 Join us! 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.020 Get involved. 00:03:36.020 --> 00:03:37.340 Support us today! 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:44.900 Okay. 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:49.200 So now it's time for you to start your own vegan community cookery school. 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:52.800 And we're going to be right here with you on this journey.