The Crumbs Project

28/11/2025

26/11/2025

🎄🎅🏽🎄Join us at our Christmas Fair this Saturday (29th Nov) and pick some Christmas gifts for your friends and families! The doors open at 12 pm, we have Christmas themed paninis, Christmas cakes, mince pies, a Teddy tombola and lots of other goodies! 🎄🎅🎄

25/11/2025

🍝✨ Pure pasta perfection!
The fantastic chef Joe from BaxterStorey rolled, folded, and pressed his way to deliver a pasta-making cookery masterclass at The Crumbs Project— turning flour, egg, and semolina into elegant ribbons of perfection.

Working alongside disadvantaged adults on our Food Production & Service training programme, Joe, and his colleagues Kayleigh and Alina, volunteered to demonstrate their skills crafting dough, shaping forms, and mastering techniques that elevate simple ingredients into authentic, restaurant-quality dishes.

From hand-rolled farfalle, garganelli tubes, cavatelli, papodell, and sapliosince, every step was a reminder that great food starts with passion and a love of cooking. 😍👨‍🍳

Get in touch with us to find out how you can volunteer to support essential training that helps change the lives of disadvantaged adults.

13/11/2025

🎂🥧🍩🍪 Have YOU got what it takes to be the next Star Baker?
If you or someone you know is a talented home baker, then apply now at www.applyforbakeoff.co.uk or email us on applyforbakeoff@loveproductions.co.uk or call 0117 456 8530 for an application form. 🎂🍰🥧🍩

Closing date for applications is 1pm on Monday 15th December 2025.

11/11/2025

✨Sharing our Passion4Hospitality!✨

A group of The Crumbs Project ’s talented trainees joined the Institute of Hospitality Passion4Hospitality Future Leaders conference event to learn more about careers in hospitality, and the importance of the people coming into the industry for advancing the Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and Belonging ( ) agenda.

Our Head of Operations, Lee was part of a panel for a Hospitality Meets with Phil Street podcast discussing how people with learning disabilities and neurodiversity can help hospitality organisations to deliver top-class service.

Check out Hospitality Meets with Phil Street in early 2026 to hear all about it.

10/11/2025

✨ Inclusion in Action! ✨
A group of .Project’s talented trainees joined the Accessible Hospitality Alliance Forum to share their lived experiences and ideas for making UK hospitality truly welcoming for everyone. 💬💪
Their voices are shaping the future of accessible hotels, restaurants, and venues — proving that real change happens when everyone has a seat at the table. 🏨🌍


Hospitality and Catering News

07/11/2025

The sustainability benefits of fighting food waste have now gone a step further with the help of BaxterStorey and Waste Knot UK , who rescue surplus fruit and veg from UK farmers to create and sell more sustainable dishes that raise money for charitable causes.

Through a donation of £690 from the BaxterStorey WSH
Foundation to The Crumbs Project to help train disadvantaged adults in catering and hospitality, individuals facing barriers will be able to gain and sustain employment and lead brighter, more included lives.
Thank you ❤️

04/11/2025

🎉🎉 Paul joins trainees, Dennis, Emily, Sarah, James and Laura in becoming KP of the Month thanks to MEIKO - The clean solution and Hospitality and Catering News.
https://www.accessiblehospitality.com/celebrating-octobers-kitchen-porters-of-the-month/

Each month, the Kitchen Porters Club proudly recognises the heroes of hospitality, the kitchen porters whose work keeps operations running seamlessly across care homes, schools, hotels, pubs, and restaurants. Their dedication often takes place behind the scenes, but their impact is front and centre....

04/11/2025

To all SEND parents/carers an opportunity to voice your concerns.

🤗 Help us to build better SEND services and support

We would like to hear from parents, carers, children and young people in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area who access support for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Take our short survey and help shape how SEND support and Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) are delivered across education, health and the community. 🧡

Why take part?
• It only takes a few minutes to complete
• Your feedback helps shape future services
• You will be helping others by sharing your experience

Survey open from 3 to 30 November 2025 - see link to survey in comments 👇

24/10/2025

🍂Autumn Showcase Meal Event 🍂
With support from Services our talented team staged another fabulous Showcase Meal event for guests at our charity’s professional training centre in Bournemouth. We were joined on the day by chefs Dan & Charlie from BaxterStorey and James & Alice from The Pig Hotel

This event’s theme was ‘Celebrating Autumn’, with guests delighting in a warming selection of starters, mains, and desserts inspired by the colours of Autumn. 🍂🍂

Food Production & Service trainees and staff team members designed a menu The ’Autumn’ theme gave trainees the opportunity to create classic modern dishes using their knowledge learnt during their training.

This event was made possible by a kind donation from Services, the official sponsor of Showcase Meal events The Crumbs Project in 2025. 🌟

If you would like to collaborate with The Crumbs Project charity or attend a future Showcase Meal event as a guest, please contact our team now.

📞 Call us on 01202 519320 or 📧 email us at info@crumbs.org.uk

📅 Upcoming Showcase Meal event dates:
• Tuesday 3rd March,
• Thursday 30th April,
• Wednesday 8th July,
• Friday 6th November

17/10/2025

Thank you to all the businesses that donated raffle prizes to The Crumbs Project at the Tourism Awards - South West and Thank you to everyone who bought raffles tickets. We are extremely grateful and raised £2050.00 through raffle ticket sales. 🥳🤩🎉🎉

Oceanarium, Bournemouth
Marsham Court Hotel Bournemouth
Casa Di Vini
Birds of Poole Harbour
The Jubilee Hotel
The Old Thatch Wimborne
Farmer Palmer's Farm Park
Baboo Gelato
Shaftesbury Abbey Museum & Gardens
Tozers LLP
The Italian Villa
The Dovecote Cafe & Farm Shop