00:00 You may have heard of a banquet, but have you ever heard of an anti-banquet?
00:06 Josh Egleton and his community food company Team Canteen with the aim to create a sustainable
00:14 revenue source for Bristol's food charities and organisations trying to eliminate food poverty
00:22 in the city of Bristol. Let's chat to Josh to find out more.
00:26 So what have we got coming up? We've got the anti-banquet coming up. It's been an idea for
00:34 the last two or three years, finally getting it done this year. And what is it? The anti-banquet
00:40 in its essence really is a form of equality. It's sort of using the charity banquet sector
00:48 to do what it does best, but also to intersect with community at a point that makes sure that
00:55 everybody enjoys it. Bristol's anti-banquet is staged as a partnership between Team Canteen,
01:03 the Pony Chew Valley, Ashton Gate Stadium, Team Love and Plaster. It is made possible
01:09 by generous donations from sponsors, including Bristol Beer Factory and Arthur David Sponsorship
01:16 Companies, which will be giving a table to donate to a good cause or to use for team members who
01:23 wouldn't usually get to attend celebrations or events like this. Let's chat to Josh to find out
01:29 more. What's happening is that we're going out to large business, Bristol business, creating a
01:34 Bristol business network, which obviously exists, but we're tapping into that. We're selling tables
01:40 to this business network. And then we're saying to the MDs and the CEOs and the owners of these
01:44 companies that you can't actually come and eat in this banquet. You've got to invite your workforce
01:49 or parts of community that your company intersects with, or give it to one of the services, NHS,
01:56 police. So to say thank you for the community that pre-exists within Bristol. Then what we do
02:04 with those MDs and CEOs is you say, don't worry, you're still coming. You're going to come and work
02:08 and you're going to come and help us. So we're getting these guys to be serving their workforce,
02:13 thereby the workforce going to something they've never been to before. We're going to roll the
02:17 red carpet. We're going to have loads of music. We're going to have live band. We're going to have
02:22 DJs. We're going to have a little circus. We're going to have some comedians as compers. Give
02:26 everybody a fantastic night, you know, so it's not just about the food. CEOs and leadership from the
02:32 sponsoring businesses will be given the chance to cook in the kitchen alongside some of the UK's
02:39 most esteemed chefs and invited to take over serving the guests. For me, I think it's important
02:45 that we give back, that our companies intersect with the community and how we do that. What I
02:52 want to establish is how do I, to the most wide range of people, how do I get to people that are
02:58 able to normally come and eat in one of our restaurants. Only time will tell the success
03:03 of the anti-banquet.
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