Village Kitchen CIC

Village Kitchen CIC runs a portfolio of projects to support the elderly community in Clackmannanshire and the wider Forth Valley, including a meals-on-wheels-style delivery service twice weekly with doorstep befriending and wellness check. We also run a weekly community café in Dollar and monthly bus trips for seniors to green spaces and local tourist spots. Our aims focus on reducing inequalities by supporting elderly beneficiaries to participate in community activities and social opportunities, improving nutrition and quality of life by accessing home-cooked meals, reducing loneliness and isolation and improving overall mental health and wellbeing. We offer a wide range of outside catering services, including hotfork buffet, sandwich buffet, cakes and celebration platters.


Current opportunities

BACKGROUND The Village Kitchen is a service that delivers frozen meals around Clackmannanshire on a Tuesday and a Friday. They were set up during Covid due to the difficulty the older people in the community had with getting to the supermarket. After Covid there was still a demand for their services so have continued offering the support. As well as delivering meals, they set up a Thursday cafe and now have 30-35 people attending on a weekly basis. They engage with their guests, offer any support that they can and help to build up friendships to avoid isolation at home. Once a month they take a number of guests out on a bus trip to various places in the Forth Valley area. As a Kitchen Assistant you will be assisting the main chef and other volunteers in preparing meals and general kitchen duties on a Monday and a Wednesday (9.30am - 11.30am or 11.30am - 1.30pm); or supporting kitchen duties ahead of guests at the Thursday Cafe and general kitchen duties (9.30am - 1.30pm). Everything works on a rota system and volunteers can do as much or as little as suits them, dipping in and out of all aspects of our work or sticking to the one area, it's up to them.

BACKGROUND The Village Kitchen is a service that delivers frozen meals around Clackmannanshire on a Tuesday and a Friday. They were set up during Covid due to the difficulty the older people in the community had with getting to the supermarket. After Covid there was still a demand for their services so have continued offering the support. As well as delivering meals, they set up a Thursday cafe and now have 30-35 people attending on a weekly basis. They engage with their guests, offer any support that they can and help to build up friendships to avoid isolation at home. Once a month they take a number of guests out on a bus trip to various places in the Forth Valley area. As a Driver, you will be collecting meals at 10am from The Hive in Dollar on a Tuesday and/or Friday and delivering to an area which include Alloa, Hillfoots, Muckhart and Dollar. Other drivers help out on a Thursday by picking up and dropping off guests at the cafe and returning them home in the Dollar area. Please note that Thursday drivers would need to be available for dropping them off at The Hive (11.30pm - 12pm) and returning to take guests home (1.30pm - 2pm). Everything works on a rota system and volunteers can do as much or as little as suits them, dipping in and out of all aspects of our work or sticking to the one area, it's up to them.

BACKGROUND The Village Kitchen is a service that delivers frozen meals around Clackmannanshire on a Tuesday and a Friday. They were set up during Covid due to the difficulty the older people in the community had with getting to the supermarket. After Covid there was still a demand for their services so have continued offering the support. As well as delivering meals, they set up a Thursday cafe and now have 30-35 people attending on a weekly basis. They engage with their guests, offer any support that they can and help to build up friendships to avoid isolation at home. Once a month they take a number of guests out on a bus trip to various places in the Forth Valley area. As a Trips Volunteer, you will be assisting the team on the monthly day trips taking guests to various locations around Forth Valley. You could be part of the team picking them up at home and conveying to the mini bus, as well as helping them on and off and assisting them at our chosen location (9.30am - 2.30pm on the given day). Everything works on a rota system and volunteers can do as much or as little as suits them, dipping in and out of all aspects of our work or sticking to the one area, it's up to them.

BACKGROUND The Village Kitchen is a service that delivers frozen meals around Clackmannanshire on a Tuesday and a Friday. They were set up during Covid due to the difficulty the older people in the community had with getting to the supermarket. After Covid there was still a demand for their services so have continued offering the support. As well as delivering meals, they set up a Thursday cafe and now have 30-35 people attending on a weekly basis. They engage with their guests, offer any support that they can and help to build up friendships to avoid isolation at home. Once a month they take a number of guests out on a bus trip to various places in the Forth Valley area. As a Cafe Host, you will be helping to set up such as laying out tables at the Hive in Dollar ahead of the Thursday Café. You will also engage with their guests when they arrive and during their time at the café. You will also be serving the guests as well as tidying up afterwards (11.15am - 2.30pm). Everything works on a rota system and volunteers can do as much or as little as suits them, dipping in and out of all aspects of our work or sticking to the one area, it's up to them.