Story Chefs

Join us with family or friends

to enjoy a taste of food, stories & memories, from around the world.

a popup experience that tempts you with food and stories to make connections and build empathy for People Seeking Sanctuary in the UK.

Story Chefs is a project co-created with members of our Creative Sanctuary Group.

By sharing our food and stories, and handing out our Story Chef recipe cards, in public spaces, the Story Chefs hope to create heartfelt and delicious ways for people to meet and connect with neighbours from all over the world currently seeking sanctuary in the UK.

We hope you enjoy cooking and sharing our recipes with friends. Our Creative Sanctuary Group meets regularly in Derby. Together we create projects and events that celebrate and shine a light on the stories of local people seeking sanctuary. ❤️

Story Chefs recipe art co-created with Artist Theresa Hempsall. The Story Chef pop-up kitchen was co-designed with Live Projects students at Sheffield School of Architecture.

‘Sory Chefs’ is our new pop-up story kitchen co-created with our Creative Sanctuary Work. We share heartfelt human stories and food in a variety of pop-up places to build bridges of empathy for local refugees.

A little bit of Audience feedback….

‘I know how much hard works gone into this project, and you can tell! Food really does brings us together and connects us to people and places. A beautiful heart warming and joyous hour.’

‘The joy, pride and emotion that the Story Chefs share in their stories and their food is amazing!’

‘A beautiful hour that made you really think about the division our media forces on us and how humanity must prevail.’

Big thanks to those that have supported us: