Volunteering is a powerful shortcut to personal happiness. When you spend time helping others find their feet, you will be amazed at how much joy and fulfilment it brings back into your own life.
Make a life-changing difference
Volunteers are key to everything we do, and have helped change thousands of participants’ lives. Please help us make a life-changing difference to families’ diets and finances.
Volunteer as a Bags of Taste cooking mentor
At Bags of Taste, we deliver our Mentored Home Cooking Programme to 2,500 people each year, with incredible feedback. By volunteering as a mentor, you’ll help someone improve their diet, health, and finances—while making a real difference from anywhere in the UK.
Our courses are delivered via WhatsApp or phone, making them flexible and easy to fit around your schedule. You’ll need to commit 2–3 hours over two weeks, and you can choose to support just one course at a time. Most participants cook in the evening, so it’s simple to check in during breaks or after work.
You don’t need to be an expert cook—what’s important is being supportive and encouraging. We provide all the teaching materials, recipes, and step-by-step videos, and there’s always a coordinator available to back you up.
It’s a hugely rewarding role, and we’ll provide full training and ongoing support to ensure you feel confident every step of the way.
Join our friendly, dedicated team of volunteers
Without our wonderful volunteers we wouldn’t be able to continue to make such a difference to people living in food poverty.
With significant increases in food bank usage and the economic uncertainty of the cost of living crisis and rising energy bills, our work is now needed more than ever. Today, we have 200 volunteers supporting us – but the more support we have, the more we can do together!
