A specialist catering company set up by women from a Dundee community centre has held a sell-out website launch at the city’s Bonar Hall.
The Wooden Spoon Catering Company employs up to 15 women, including seven full-time staff. It started when a local business was so impressed with the dishes being served up at the Dundee International Women’s Centre that it asked for a bulk order.
The women were soon inundated with orders and now deliver curry meals to more than 90 workplaces each week.
Thursday night’s ‘Jam, Jute and Jalfrezie’ event was co-sponsored by local jam and marmalade company Mackays, whose founder, Paul Grant, said, “They have great products and very talented people and I am delighted to give something back by supporting such an innovative local business.”
Wooden Spoon has also won the backing of curry king Charan Gill, who said, “It’s a fantastic and novel idea. They have expertise, enthusiasm and their success shows that there is a demand for what they are doing.”
As a social enterprise, the company reinvests its profits to provide training, childcare and other services for the 500 women who attend classes and use the centre.
Centre manager Angie Foreman said the women were keen to mark the launch with a celebration of their heritage.
She said, “Cooking is something they have always done at home and they didn’t see it as anything special but now the women and their families recognise that what they do is amazing.”The new website will be launched soon at www.woodenspooncatering.co.uk. In the meantime, find out more at www.facebook.com/WoodenSpoonCatering