To celebrate the 4th anniversary of BRITE Box and to mark the start of Healthy Eating Week 2024 Voices of Hope is launching the BRITE Box Big Cook 2024 ! Please join our record breaking mass participation cooking event attempt!

From Friday 7th June to Sunday 9th June, we are encouraging as many people as possible to join our existing 700 BRITE Box families in preparing and cooking our BRITE Box recipe. Our aim is to raise awareness of BRITE Box and create a record by getting over 3000 households cooking the same meal at the same time ! 

Based on the Healthy Eating Week initiative to encourage us all to enjoy eating more fruit and veg, we are releasing a special 'Rainbow Pasta' recipe for the BRITE Box Big Cook!

To get involved, all you need to do is download the recipe from our website www.voh.org.uk/britebox/bigcook2024 get your ingredients ready and enjoy preparing, cooking and eating your tasty Rainbow Pasta in your own home. 

We will also be preparing 100 extra special edition BRITE Boxes which will be available for purchase and delivery to central Kingston residents and businesses. Kick off healthy eating week with an easy to prepare, tasty healthy meal for your family or employees, whilst supporting us to provide a BRITE Box recipe meal kit for a local family. Order yours by 5th June here

If you believe every child should have access to healthy, nutritious food and the opportunity to build cooking skills and resilience for the future, please consider donating to help us provide BRITE Box recipe meal kits to more local children and families www.voh.org.uk/appeal/brite-box-donate

BRITE Box recipe meal kits provide so much more than the ingredients for a meal, BRITE Box really is the 'box which keeps on giving' - building confidence and skills in the kitchen, bringing children and their families together around food in the home, giving no cost opportunities to try new foods, flavours and budget friendly recipes and creating lasting skills, habits and a love of food for life.

"I would like to thank you, not only has this helped out a lot with trying new food, but it has given me and my sons something to enjoy creating tasty and healthy food." (parent)

"It is an awesome scheme to be a part of and quite literally given us a meal some days when we've run out and it's exciting." (parent)

 "I'm thankful that we can experience BRITE Box. I think this should be a must in every family as it really helps to have and learn a variety of recipes from different countries...most importantly, I have happy children with proper meals on the table." (parent)

"The feedback from the children and families has been overwhelming. I don't think I have ever been part of an initiative that has been so well received" (School Head)

The project's impact has been evaluated by a research team from Kingston University, details of which can be found here BRITE Box University Evaluation Sept 2022 (voh.org.uk)