Patron
Cherie Blair CBE KC
Cherie Blair is a leading international human rights lawyer, a passionate campaigner for women’s equality, and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Hotel School Funders
Savoy Educational Trust
The first funder to believe in our project who gave us the funds to refurbish the domestic kitchen into a professional kitchen. They are one of the biggest supporters of the hospitality sector with an unrivalled reputation for assisting new generations of hospitality professionals.
Mayoral Inclusive Growth Fund
We are grateful to the Mayor of Liverpool for approving a grant towards delivering the refurbished kitchen and allowing us to commence using it for the local community once complete.
Torus Foundation
Torus Foundation have generously agreed to support the works required to complete the kitchen refurbishment with a grant and we are most appreciative.
Kitchen Garden Funders
Cobalt Housing Community Fund
Our local housing association who have shown complete faith in our efforts to provide a pathway into training and employment for many of their tenants especially young people.
Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund
We are absolutely thrilled that the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund has believed in our project and are supporting us to realise our dream of growing food to help the communities of Croxteth and Norris Green.
Liverpool City Region
We are delighted that the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has added our project to the prestigious list of groups supported by the Community Environment Fund.
Our Sponsors
Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney’s is thrilled to be partnering with La Salle Hotel School to provide a Kitchen Garden space, as part of our initiative to make growing fruit and vegetables accessible to young people. Inspired by Linda’s pioneering legacy of making vegetarian food available to the masses, we’re proud to lend our support to this project and help to arm the next generation with the skills and knowledge to grow their own fruits and vegetables, whilst gaining hands-on training in hospitality roles at the same time.
Our Industry Partners
Titanic Hotel Liverpool
Brian Connor their General Manager, has been a supporter from the very beginning of the idea and we believe they are one of the best hotels in the city and are delighted that they wished to become our major hotel partner.
The Art School
With a lifetime dedicated to encouraging young people to enter the catering profession Chef Paul Askew immediately agreed to our request to become our major restaurant partner – we couldn’t have been more thrilled.
Liverpool Hospitality Association
This organisation represents every hotel and restaurant in the city and they were the first to receive a presentation from us when we started our project and they were very supportive of the concept.
Our Educational Partners
The City of Liverpool College
Having explored relationships with some city region providers we are delighted to announce that City of Liverpool College is as excited as we are to commence a process of developing a mutually beneficial educational partnership.
Myerscough College, Croxteth Park
We were determined that the people who came to work in our Kitchen Garden should also be put on a pathway to gaining horticultural qualifications should they so desire and we were thrilled when our local college based in Croxteth Country Park agreed to work with us.
Our Community Partners
Expert Exteriors
Chris Lawrence and his team at Expert Exteriors couldn’t have been more helpful and professional in their work in laying the beautiful pathways through the Kitchen Garden and building the 20 raised beds and the bordering of the 4 no-dig growing areas.
St Andrews Community Network
One of our most energising partners who collaborated with us on our Get Stuffed! project and became firm friends and inspirational co-workers.
Faiths 4 Change
We had an initial agreement with Faiths4Change to provide a sessional worker to the Kitchen Garden and this collaboration was genuinely fruitful and enriching for us.
Cobalt Housing Community Fund
They are our local social housing provider and couldn’t have been more supportive from the beginning in all that we want to achieve in their area, with and for their tenants.
Compost Works
What a joy to have a close partnership with Compost Works and the amazing Minna Alanko-Falola so that we can fully integrate composting and connected training into the horticultural offer on our site.
Our Commercial Partners
Eco-Steam Clean Liverpool
Will Philips runs a local cleaning company that we are proud to support and promote since they came to our aid in an emergency and did a magnificent job in restoring to near perfect condition chairs and carpets in the Hotel School.
Beers
We are very pleased that Beers is supporting our project and enabling our funds to go further than they otherwise would. It is important to us that we use and support local tradesmen and businesses.
Dams
The Charity Team at Dams have been truly wonderful in supporting what we are doing at La Salle by sharing with us furniture that would otherwise be recycled for various reasons. It has saved us a significant amount of money for which we are most grateful. And we are delighted with the product!
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