“Lily’s” is a mobile pop-up café social enterprise. The aim of it is to combat loneliness, integrate all ages in a social context and promote healthy eating. Simple Scottish themed produce form the backbone of this enterprise, offering quality at affordable prices.
Lily’s food range is prepared and cooked by a trained network of bakers, compliant in food hygiene requirements, based from H&S compliant kitchens that are currently under-used, under the watchful eye of catering professionals. They also sell their cakes, oatcakes and flapjac4 and plan to develop this further. In addition they seek to fuse international cookery themes into a Scottish context - ”Fusion” - creating one off, pop-up food events to form a platform opportunity for young catering professionals to develop their own style, tapping into current trends in local produce, foraged foods, street food and healthy eating, for example.
The café has been piloted in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders and now plans to replicate into as many communities as possible, utilising under-used premises and local surplus produce.
“Lily’s” are working in partnership with Waste Innovations who make creative gifts from waste materials and run creative eco-workshops and these are planned to run alongside the pop-up café events from beginning of October 2018 in Berwickshire. They also partner with the “Fruit Basket” who make hand-made jams, jellies and chutneys from local produce which is surplus to requirements.
IMPACT Generate local community involvement through participation, integrating disabled and all ages; Enhance economic development through sales and services; Encourage young catering professionals through novel opportunities; Enhance environmental awareness through food waste awareness raising; Promote healthy eating; Assist in combating loneliness in all ages in diverse communities; Promote volunteering, training and personal development – including a mentoring programme; Create employment; Educate public through workshops; Educate business through workshops; Reuse and recycling of waste, generating maximum value-added; Sustainable development, integrating communities and social needs with, business and environmental themes.
