Good Food Matters is grateful to the following funders, businesses and individuals who have all helped to make the GFM Teaching Kitchen possible.

In-kind support from 2005 

Croydon Commitment Many thanks to Janine Jasper of Croydon Commitment for support and encouragement through the highs and lows of the first 18 months. She introduced GFM to businesses in Croydon such as Mansell Engineering and Mott MacDonald as well as Croydon Council  and Croydon Voluntary Action. During this time GFM received invaluable support from CVA and Diana Battaglia ( Environment and Sustainability) Croydon Council.

Mansell Engineering: Our thanks to Keith Taylor and to Bob Andrews for much business advice and encouragement and for their generous in-kind support.

Croydon Voluntary Action Thank you CVA  for providing invaluable capacity building on fundraising strategies, bookkeeping and for finding our trustees.

Magnet Trade Croydon: A special thanks to Steve Marsh and Bob Mackrell who helped design the kitchen and gave much in-kind support with good humor thrown in for free.  

Neff Appliances gave generous in-kind support. A special thanks to Hannah Watson for her patient help.

Simonetti Productions A special thanks to Gina Simonetti for creating the Good Food Matters logo.

SoftAware Ltd - High-end web/software/database design and development
Many thanks to Softaware Ltd for their expert technical help in setting up this website. Special thanks also to Charlotte Durham for creating the website.

Funders from 2005 to date

2005 - City Parochial Foundation & Trust for London Supported core costs during the building of the Teaching Kitchen. 

2006 - Awards for All   helped build the Teaching kitchen
2007 - Awards for All   funded our Leaving Care project (begins May 2008 )

2006 Local Network Fund (through Peabody Trust) helped build the Teaching Kitchen
2008 Local Network Fund funded our Young Single Homeless Project

2006 Mercers Company helped core and admin costs from February to April 2006

Jack Petchey Foundation through Croydon Youth Development Trust (CYDT). This generous and much needed grant helped towards a salary for kitchen project manager and fundraiser from July 2007 to June 2008 . Our grateful thanks go to Paula Doherty and Hannah Cilia of CYDT for obtaining this grant and for their advice and constant support.  An extra thanks to Paula for her advice, and encouragement to Evelyn, through many sticky patches, from 2005 onwards and for her assistance in helping to house the GFM teaching kitchen in the building of CYDT.  Last but not least our thanks to all the staff at CYDT who are so welcoming to our students and always ready to give a helping hand whenever the need arises.

Grassroots Grant (through Croydon Voluntary Action)  for young people with autism.

Healthy Croydon Partnership Grant for young people with Learning difficulties including autism.

A big thank you to Jonnathan Waddingham for depriving himself of cheese in January 2010 to raise funds for GFM.