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Waste to Wonder Trust empowers youth in The Gambia through the Sustainability Cookery School, providing practical skills in sustainable cooking, agriculture, and hospitality to foster self-reliance and brighter futures.

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This is Waste to Wonder&rsquo;s boldest step yet: The Sustainability Cookery School, a purpose-built training centre rising in The Gambia. Not a food handout, a place where young people learn to grow, cook, and build a livelihood from what the land provides. It builds on the legacy of our School in a Box programme, which has already equipped more than 1,700 schools in 50 countries, and carries that same spirit of transformation into food, farming, and futures. 29% of The Gambia&rsquo;s population is food insecure. When crops fail, incomes disappear. When incomes disappear, children go hungry and communities grow more vulnerable. The Cookery School breaks that cycle, training a generation to grow, cook, and sell their way into stable work, for generations to come. Students will graduate with real skills in sustainable cooking, agriculture, hospitality, and entrepreneurship, working alongside award-winning chef Conor Spacey and in partnership with the Global Orphan Empowerment Academy. They&rsquo;ll leave not just employable, but with the confidence, dignity, and resilience to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. This is a living embodiment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: zero hunger, decent work, responsible consumption, and climate action, built on a circular economy where nothing, food, land, or opportunity, goes to waste. The building is just the vehicle. The real product is transformed lives.

This is Waste to Wonder’s boldest step yet: The Sustainability Cookery School, a purpose-built training centre rising in The Gambia. Not a food handout, a place where young people learn to grow, cook, and build a livelihood from what the land provides.It builds on the legacy of our School in a Box programme, which has already equipped more than 1,700 schools in 50 countries, and carries that same spirit of transformation into food, farming, and futures.29% of The Gambia’s population is food insecure. When crops fail, incomes disappear. When incomes disappear, children go hungry and communities grow more vulnerable. The Cookery School breaks that cycle, training a generation to grow, cook, and sell their way into stable work, for generations to come.Students will graduate with real skills in sustainable cooking, agriculture, hospitality, and entrepreneurship, working alongside award-winning chef Conor Spacey and in partnership with the Global Orphan Empowerment Academy. They’ll leave not just employable, but with the confidence, dignity, and resilience to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.This is a living embodiment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: zero hunger, decent work, responsible consumption, and climate action, built on a circular economy where nothing, food, land, or opportunity, goes to waste.The building is just the vehicle. The real product is transformed lives.

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Shop With Purpose 🌍💚 Welcome to the Waste to Wonder Shop, where every purchase has a purpose.From sustainable everyday essentials to unique products, everything we sell helps generate funds for projects that create real, lasting impact in communities around the world. Your purchase could help support clean water projects, education, skills and training, food security and sustainable livelihoods, turning something you buy into something that gives back. It&#39;s shopping that does a little more. Good products. Greater purpose.

Shop With Purpose 🌍💚Welcome to the Waste to Wonder Shop, where every purchase has a purpose.From sustainable everyday essentials to unique products, everything we sell helps generate funds for projects that create real, lasting impact in communities around the world.Your purchase could help support clean water projects, education, skills and training, food security and sustainable livelihoods, turning something you buy into something that gives back.It's shopping that does a little more. Good products. Greater purpose.

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Walk for Water 🚶&zwj;♀️💧&nbsp; One borewell can support up to 2,000 people. But it&rsquo;s not just about water. It&rsquo;s about children being in school instead of walking miles each day to collect it. It&rsquo;s about improved hygiene and reduced illness. It&rsquo;s about crops growing, food security improving, and families generating income from surplus produce. It&rsquo;s about giving a community the foundations to thrive. On 15th October, we&rsquo;re coming together to take on a 13 or 26 mile walk along the Thames Path, with one shared goal! Raise enough to fund one life changing borewell in Gambia. This is more than a walk, it&rsquo;s a collective effort to turn steps into something meaningful and create long term impact for an entire community. Each donation, no matter the size, brings us closer to making this happen. Thanks to our amazing partners at CBRE and Atkins Realis for driving this challenge!

Walk for Water 🚶‍♀️💧 One borewell can support up to 2,000 people.But it’s not just about water.It’s about children being in school instead of walking miles each day to collect it.It’s about improved hygiene and reduced illness.It’s about crops growing, food security improving, and families generating income from surplus produce.It’s about giving a community the foundations to thrive.On 15th October, we’re coming together to take on a 13 or 26 mile walk along the Thames Path, with one shared goal! Raise enough to fund one life changing borewell in Gambia.This is more than a walk, it’s a collective effort to turn steps into something meaningful and create long term impact for an entire community.Each donation, no matter the size, brings us closer to making this happen.Thanks to our amazing partners at CBRE and Atkins Realis for driving this challenge!

Walk for Water

An evening of food, sustainability and impact in support of the Sustainability Cookery School in The Gambia Join us for a unique evening at the Urban Farmer Project, bringing together good food, great company and a shared commitment to creating lasting change. Enjoy a selection of West African-inspired bowl food, canap&eacute;s and drinks while learning more about the Sustainability Cookery School in The Gambia. This pioneering initiative equips young people with practical skills in sustainable cooking, agriculture, hospitality and tourism, helping to create opportunities for employment, self-reliance and brighter futures. Set within the inspiring surroundings of the Urban Farmer Project, Plates with Purpose offers the chance to network, connect and celebrate the power of food as a force for positive change. Every ticket purchased helps support the continued development of the Sustainability Cookery School, and every drink purchased at the contactless bar will also contribute directly to the fundraising efforts, helping even more young people gain the skills and confidence they need to thrive.

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