Case study · Clubs & community
A Perfect Place to Grow, Margate
Community kitchen Margate — donated community kitchen for a Margate charitable project, set inside a restored Victorian building, with Kent Commercial Kitchens and its suppliers giving the time, materials and equipment.
Client
A Perfect Place to Grow
Location
Margate, Kent
Project value
Donated
Build time
3 weeks
The brief
Community kitchen Margate: community kitchen given, not invoiced
A Perfect Place to Grow is a charitable community project in Margate, housed in a restored Victorian building — notably, one that once served as a mortuary and now forms part of an artists' community of which Tracey Emin is a benefactor. Consequently, Kent Commercial Kitchens designed and fitted the catering facility as a donation, giving time, materials and labour to the project.
Specifically, the aim was a working community kitchen the project could use day to day, delivered at no cost to the charity. Kent Commercial Kitchens donated the design, the extraction system, the flooring and the hygienic wall cladding, and several equipment manufacturers donated the catering equipment alongside. As a result, the work was carried out inside the restored building on a three-week programme.
What we did
Design, extraction and finishes, donated in full
Extraction system
To ensure compliance, Kent Commercial Kitchens designed and installed the extraction over the cooking line, sized for the equipment and the room — specifically so the kitchen could run safely and compliantly in daily community use.
Flooring and hygienic finishes
Additionally, safety flooring was laid and coved, and UPVC hygienic wall cladding was installed through the kitchen. These are hard-wearing, easy-clean finishes suited to a shared community space, with the time and materials donated.
Donated catering equipment
Furthermore, the catering equipment was donated by its manufacturers: a Rational combi oven, Control Induction induction cooking and Liebherr refrigeration. Furthermore, Kent Commercial Kitchens added Sammic food preparation to the donation and brought the whole kitchen together into a single working line.
Equipment specified
Donated by the manufacturers and KCK
- Rational combi oven — donated by Rational
- Control Induction induction cooking — donated by Control Induction
- Liebherr refrigeration — donated by Liebherr
- Sammic food preparation — donated by Kent Commercial Kitchens
The installation
Inside the finished kitchen
The outcome
In service for the community
As a result, the kitchen at A Perfect Place to Grow is complete and in service, supporting the charitable project's work in Margate. In particular, it was designed, fitted and equipped through donated time, materials and equipment from Kent Commercial Kitchens, Rational, Control Induction and Liebherr — giving the project a full working kitchen it could not otherwise have funded.
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