Food Hub
“All Things Food”

Our food hub South Tyneside space in Horsley Hill delivers free cooking courses, friendly demos and low cost homemade meals, plus links to our community shops and wider support in South Shields. Sessions build skills and confidence so households can cook healthy, low cost food.

FREE ACTIVITIES FOR ADULTS & FAMILY’S: FOOD HUB

“All Things Food”

The FOOD HUB is A BRAND-NEW VENTURE FOR 2025!

It is a food activity space with kitchen facilities, for up to twenty-eight people, with an informal snug seating area, and incorporates a community area selling and serving home cooked nutritious meals from just £2. There will also be a range of fresh, frozen, dried & tinned foods, for sale, at cost price to residents within 1.5miles of the shop. It is located next door to our Horsley Hill Community Shop and Activities Hub at 3 Horsley Hill Square, Horsley Hill, South Shields, NE34 7HE.

Access to Affordable Food

Our brand-new FOOD HUB will allow us to deliver workshops, relating to “All things food! Providing access to fresher food, with fun learning around food budgeting, food preparation, food nutrition, food growth, to food life cycles and food futures. Designed to help residents make better food choices, and in the longer term contributing to generational change.

The Hub will extend access to affordable food, increase knowledge and understanding of the benefits of healthy diet and generate a passion for food that will translate into developing skills to enable residents to cook healthier, affordable meals from scratch.

Learning and Skills Development with FREE Workshops & Classes

Workshops will be delivered by a whole host of food practitioners, including local renowned restaurateurs.

Food Workshops are FUN & FREE; tuition is very informal. With step-by-step teaching, recipes for you to follow.

We provide the “Meal in a Bag” ingredients, which we gift to you. Workshops are an ideal way to learn how to budget, learn how to cook new meals, sample new types of food and all of this at no cost to you. e.g. Recent classes and recipes are traditional British Recipes: Indian Curry’s, Asian cooking, Italian: Children’s Pizza Making, Men’s Cooking Sessions.

Family cooking sessions can positively change how children feel about food, enhancing their future food knowledge and understanding. Workshops are FREE, fun, informal, and while they are based around food, they are also designed to help improve mental health and increase your confidence. In a familiar setting, you will meet new people in your area & make new friendships. Take part in activities and learn new skills, which support you and your family to succeed in life.

Interested in attending any of our activities? You can learn more or sign up for our FREE FOOD related classes & activities in one of two ways;

in our shops, by speaking to a member of the team and adding your name on a paper list.
by registering details / an interest online via bookings@hospitalityandhope.org.uk

Why not follow us on Facebook & Instagram

Or sign up to our monthly newsletter (green button at the top of this page) to be the first to hear about our forthcoming activities?

(Please note, registering does not guarantee you a place. Our shop staff will be in touch to confirm if you have a place. Priority is given to Community Shop members)

Strategic Partnerships make us stronger together. We acknowledge our vital relationship with South Tyneside Open Collective for Good Food (STOC). You can find STOC and ourselves at many local events & festivals throughout the year, helping champion, celebrate & embrace South Tyneside’s culturally diverse food heritage. STOC and ourselves are committed to servicing a more diverse audience & culture in our FOOD HUB. For more information on food ideas, check out STOC!

We are also working with Women’s Health South Tyneside WHIST & Apna Ghar South Shields | Apna Ghar Minority Ethnic Women’s Centre | England on a food project food fair. Food Fair Project – WHIST. This project encourages people across South Tyneside to find cheap, healthy food and start making their own delicious and healthy meals, using as little fuel as possible in the process.

Are you a business owner who wants to get involved? | Are you a local restaurateur who could give back to your community by facilitating or sponsoring a food workshop? | Are you a food specialist who can teach about food nutrition, healthy eating, we have paid, & unpaid opportunities? | If so please get in touch or check out meet the team to discuss how we can work in partnership with you to make life changing difference to the community of South Tyneside?

By providing these Community HUB facilities, we aim to educate and create real generational change, help a community to develop new skills & experience inspirational education. We believe everyone, regardless of their home or financial circumstances, should have access to the support, tuition, and the encouragement they need to thrive.

Food Hub South TynesideMembership T&C’s

The Food Hub and will be open Monday to Friday and is located next door to the Community Shop. Everyone living within the catchment area of the Community Shop at Horsley Hill (living within a 1.5-mile radius of the shop) can become a member. Membership is FREE and requires proof of address and the completion of a membership form. There are no other joining criteria.

Membership also provides access to a wider programme of FREE wellbeing activities.

For further information: Kate.donkin@hospitalityandhope.org.uk or telephone 07377 523449

FOOD HUB SOUTH TYNESIDE GIVES BBC NEWCASTLE ACCESS TO

“Affordable, All Things Food”

Earlier this month, we were delighted to welcome BBC Radio Newcastle’s Gilly Hope to The Food Hub – All Things Food – to see our food activity space in action. Thank you for your visit.

During her visit, Gilly was able to experience our kitchen facilities, and visit a “food hub & shop that’s relevant to all & sits at the heart of the community”

By providing this space, we aim to educate and create real generational change, help a community to develop new skills & experience inspirational education.

Our thanks also to Carol, Kate, Bev and the entire hub team for their passionate storytelling.

🎧 Listen in full now, on BBC Sounds