Make Lunch - Partnership Checklist

Part of running Make Lunch requires a certain amount of documentation & policies to be in place before your Lunch Club opens. We don’t expect you to have all this done and dusted before your training; you can work on this afterward, and put the information we give you into practice.

As a minimum you will need:

Public Liability Insurance covering the project
Fire procedures and risk assessments for your venue
Food Safety Level 2 Certificate or equivalent or higher, for at least one person in the kitchen at any time
To be willing to register as a food business with your local authority. This is primarily a simple admin task, so if its a new concept, you don't need to worry about it for now as we will provide more detail in the training.
Emergency First Aid at Work or equivalent or higher for at least one member of your team on any day your lunch club is open
An appropriate Church Safeguarding Policy and contact details for your Designated Safeguarding Lead. At TLG we will provide lots of guidance and support to help you ensure all your volunteers are safely recruited but as a church you will need to be able to request DBS checks for your wider Make Lunch Volunteers team.

We’ll be here to support your coordinator after the training should you still have questions.

As well as having the right paperwork in place, you will also want to have thought through:

Things to think about

Who will coordinate the project?
Are your church and leadership onboard with the idea?
Have you got access to a kitchen in the school holidays? It doesn’t have to be in your church!
Have you got a team of at least 3 (including the coordinator) who are willing to commit to the Make Lunch project and complete the Core Team Training?
Are your local schools and other services on board with helping to invite families?
What financial resources will you be able to access to run Make Lunch?
Are you excited?! Your dedication and passion for your community will be vital in helping you overcome the challenges and obstacles you might face along the way.

Even if the answer to all of these questions isn’t ‘yes’ yet, we can support you to work out what you need to get in place.

To continue exploring the idea of Make Lunch in your community or to discuss any of these next steps, please do get in touch. We would love to hear from you.