Our Kitchen Social Enterprise

11/08/2025

Congratulations to our wonderful volunteer Isaac on this great achievement. Many of you will know Isaac from his cheery welcome to everyone when you attend a community lunch.

07/08/2025

We're back! Term 3 Community Lunches restart this Friday at the Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre.

Date: Every Friday during school terms
Time: 12:00pm to 1:00 pm
Cost: 18 per person (note price increase)
Meal: A main hot meal served with your choice of salads and hot vegetables, dessert with cream and sauce, and a selection of fresh fruit. Self serve tea and coffee is available.

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Come along and enjoy a 2 course meal for $18.

23/07/2025

We are excited as school's back and our first Community Lunch for Term 3 is organised for August 8th. 🎉🎉
Please note unfortunately due to cost increases beyond our control, the lunch has increased to $18 per person. This is still fantastic value for a main meal plus your choice of 3 hot vegetables, 4 salads, a delicious dessert served with cream, fresh fruit platters and free tea and coffee!
Bookings are required:
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03/07/2025

Great idea for the holidays from the Our Kitchen Social Cafe team and Health Futures Australia. Kids making and eating healthy pizzas. Get in quick as places are limited.
Morning session: https://socialplanet.com.au/activity/view?id=38154
Afternoon session: https://socialplanet.com.au/activity/view?id=38155

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. The Healthy Lunch Kitchen is bringing ‘Kids in the Kitchen' Cooking Classes to children aged 8 to 13 years in partnership with the Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Class will be held at Our Kitchen Social Cafe in Barkly Street Ballarat East.

01/07/2025

While our lunches are taking a break until the 8th August why not try the meals at our sister program at Barkly Square. A great initiative to help people gain hospitality experience.

This week we have a special eggplant and five bean vegetarian meatball mini sub served on a bed of rocket and topped with double layers of mozzarella cheese and Napoli sauce. Looks like Tash is having fun in the kitchen while the boss is on holidays. 👍

30/06/2025

Did you know our volunteers rescue food from local Coles and Aldi supermarkets on Mondays and Fridays. The food has to be eaten within a day or 2 and can't be sold but is perfectly good. We use the food in our community lunches and provide bread to anyone who drops into the Centre to collect it.

If you need bread and are passing drop in between 10am and 4pm on Mondays or 12pm and 4pm on Fridays.

11 Tuppen Drive Sebastopol

26/06/2025

The kitchen is prepping for the last lunch of the term. Roast Pork with crackling and Bread and Butter pudding. Just $15 and it will be yummy. 😋

Please let us know if you haven't booked as we wouldn't want to run out!

19/05/2025

Its National Volunteer Week and we will be recognising our amazing Volunteers at afternoon tea this Thursday. If you haven't received your invitation or have volunteered in the past and want to come along then just let Denise know. 😊

01/05/2025

Word spreads quickly, we do have a couple of spots this term for the Cooking Up Jobs class with Chef David. If you want to help with our community lunches and improve your kitchen skills hop online below to enrol or drop into the BNC office.

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Learn about hospitality working in a real kitchen with this hands-on program designed to provide participants with a range of employability and hospitality skills. This class is a pre-requisite to the Commercial Kitchen Skills class.

28/04/2025

We still have a couple of spots for our Term 2 employment training course. We use cooking to help people become more confident, build teamwork skills and generally have fun in the kitchen. You will also work alongside our fabulous volunteers to cook meals for our older community members.

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Learn about hospitality working in a real kitchen with this hands-on program designed to provide participants with a range of employability and hospitality skills. This class is a pre-requisite to the Commercial Kitchen Skills class.

21/03/2025

Meet our fabulous volunteers. These events are only possible with the help of our passionate volunteers. Thank you. ❤️

BIG shout out to the Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre volunteers who looked after 250 guests at their Harmony Fest event on Friday night. You all did a wonderful job and you made it a very special evening!! The food was so delicious! We would also like to thank Denise, David, Vicki, John Netherway and other members of the BNC team for all of their organising and behind the scenes work to help make it a fun night and an awesome way to kick off Harmony Fest.

10/03/2025

Don't miss out, register today for our Intercultural Celebration!
This FREE event is our popular annual Harmony Week activity with great food from our students and volunteers. This year we are proudly partnering with the City of Ballarat team to bring you another celebration of multicultural performances and activities.
Date: 14th March
Time: 6:00 to 9:00pm
Cost: FREE
Location: Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre Tuppen Drive
Please Register to help us with catering.


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By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Join us for a FREE evening of intercultural food, activities & fun.