Social Impact

What I’ve Learnt Since Receiving a King’s Award for Enterprise

What I’ve Learnt Since Receiving a King’s Award for Enterprise

One year after receiving a King’s Award for Enterprise, Alex Head reflects on how the recognition helped expand Social Pantry’s mission to support prison leavers into employment.
Social Supper at Wilderness 2024

Social Supper at Wilderness 2024

We're taking our Social Supper to Wilderness Festival, where three of our prison leaver employees have paired up with three industry-leading London chefs to create a four course feast.

Reimagining Food ‘Waste’

Reimagining Food ‘Waste’

Food waste is a prevalent issue throughout the world, but in the events industry it's even bigger. At Social Pantry we're at leading the way for caterers reducing food waste, aiming to inspire industry change and to stop food waste in its entirety.
Cooking Up a Storm at HMP/YOI Feltham

Cooking Up a Storm at HMP/YOI Feltham

We hosted an employment event with canapés for inmates training in hospitality at Feltham prison to show an example of a Social Panty event
Lifting the Veil with Studio Sorores

Lifting the Veil with Studio Sorores

In this edition of Lifting the Veil, we speak with Jessie Westwood of Studio Sorores, one of the UK’s most sought after wedding planners, who specialises in bijoux, design-led weddings that exude opulence from every corner.
Joining Team SP as an Apprentice: 5 Minutes with Raiel, Junior CDP

Joining Team SP as an Apprentice: 5 Minutes with Raiel, Junior CDP

This week marks National Apprenticeship Week, so we wanted to take the chance to spotlight a very special member of Team Social Pantry; Raiel.
Joining Team SP as a Prison Leaver: 5 Minutes with Harvey, Kitchen Assistant

Joining Team SP as a Prison Leaver: 5 Minutes with Harvey, Kitchen Assistant

As a leading and proud employer of prison leavers, we are constantly working with prisons and organisations to bring people on board and rehabilitate as part of Team Social Pantry. In 2023 alone, we employed six prison leavers, with plans to expand in the new year. One of those new starters is Harvey, having joined

Inside HMP Wandsworth

Inside HMP Wandsworth

We are delighted to speak with Georgii Jackman, Strategic Remand Support Lead at HMP Wandsworth about what goes on behind the scenes in prison and the integral work being done to ensure a smooth transition from life behind bars to life on the outside. Tell us a bit about yourself and your role working within

Our First Cafe Behind Bars at HMP/YOI Feltham

Our First Cafe Behind Bars at HMP/YOI Feltham

It’s been a while in the making but we are thrilled to finally announce that our first prison cafe is open! Lock Mess can be found behind bars at HMP/YOI Feltham and is headed up by Social Pantry Chef de Partie, Danny. At the cafe, there are four young offenders who work alongside Danny to