Can you help for a couple of hours at Grantham’s Climate Friendly Pop Up Kitchen at the Great Exhibition Road Festival on Sat 15 – Sun 16 June 2024 – opportunity for all staff and students.
Interested in planet-friendly eating? The Grantham Institute is supporting a Challenge Team of DTP students to run a stall with professional chefs who’ll create samples of sustainable meals – and give cooking demos – at this year’s festival following the success of last year’s Climate-Friendly Pop-Up Kitchen.
The food samples will be mainly plant-based. Recipe cards and QR codes for these will be available too. There will also be an interactive quiz about climate-friendly eating, based on a similar activity that proved popular last year – with prizes!
How can you help?
- Helping to set up the stall and ensure it runs smoothly and helping pack up at the end. There will be a rota with breaks.
- Engaging visitors and giving out leaflets and recipe cards like these (on recycled paper and/ or as QR codes).
- Offering visitors food samples and chatting to them about possible tweaks they might consider making to the meals they cook/ eat.
- Supporting the quiz for all ages likely to focus on which food items are “low climate-footprint” and which are “high/higher climate-footprint”.
Time slots
We are keen to have volunteers sign up to a 2-hour slot – which promises to be a great experience in science communication. During that time you will need to be at the activity at the Festival site at South Kensington in the Sir Alexander Fleming building. We will in advance listen to all your ideas and offer clear instructions, a pre-event briefing and you will be carrying out your duties in teams of two.
- 10am – 12noon Setting up
- 12noon – 2pm Chatting to visitors about sustainable food, quiz, giving out samples
- 2 – 4pm Chatting to visitors about sustainable food, quiz, giving out samples
- 4 – 6pm Chatting to visitors about sustainable food, quiz, giving out samples
- 6 – 7pm Tidying up
Feedback from last year was positive from staff and students so we are looking forward to hearing from you!
To sign up please contact Pop-Up Kitchen Team member Jenn Marsh j.marsh22@imperial.ac.uk and/or Linsey Wynton Media and Outreach Officer at the Grantham Institute l.wynton@imperial.ac.uk