Introducing Community Pizza Events CIC

The idea for Community Pizza Events came during the COVID lockdown.

I thought it would be a nice idea to make and deliver pizza to our neighbours and raise some money for our local hospice (St John's). Most people like pizza and it was easy to drum up support for the event.

We made the dough by hand and cooked in our kitchen oven using a pizza stone. I think we delivered 40 or 50 pizzas that night and made about £300 for charity. We really enjoyed doing it and this first event was a bit chaotic but most people got their food nearly on time and seemed to enjoy it.

Since then we have run several events and have now setup a Community Interest Company to make things more official. We were very grateful to receive some investment funds from two local companies. This enabled us to purchase a couple of Ooni portable ovens, a mixer and items such as dough trays and pizza peels. My neighbour, Matt Green, is an accountant and he agreed to come onboard as a second Director of the company and look after our books.

The photo above is from an event in 2021 where we worked with young people at Cancer Care. We talked about how the dough is made and then all the young people got the chance to make and cook their pizzas and then we all sat round and ate together. Because of the money that we have raised we were able to fund this event ourselves which felt great.

The purpose of the company is to bring communities together and raise money for local charities. We are actively looking to raise money to support our CIC so that we can provide more events and workshops like the Cancer Care one rather than just rely on selling pizza to raise the cash. If you think you might be able to help us with a donation we would love to hear from you.

My name is Jon. I live in Lancaster with my family. If you would like to know more about what we do and you would like to get involved please do get in touch.