Bristol based All About the Cooks smashes Crowdcube crowdfunding target

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Nicky Godding

Driven by the mission to make it easy to eat ‘real food made by real people’, Bristol-based All About The Cooks has created an online marketplace for home-cooks to sell their food to local people.

The company has raised more than £310,000, smashing its target of £275,000.

Since its launch in 2018, the company has paid £30,000 to cooks and are raising to scale to six more cities in the next year. It has 60 community cooks registered who have fulfilled 800 orders.

The company said in its Crowdcube pitch: "Our Bristol pilot has shown that we are really onto something, so we are now ready to start to take All About The Cooks to other cities too…. and that requires some investment. Since community is at the heart of everything we do, equity crowdfunding is the perfect way to that. People who like our vision can back us by investing from as little as £20 to own a piece of our future, and share in our ambitious plans for our community too."

The company was established by Claire Ladkin, who was named a Regional Winner in Tech Nation's Rising Stars last December.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.