Meals on Wheels Gloucestershire

The Kitchen Companions is a lunchtime meals-on-wheels service in Gloucestershire. It’s more than just a meal. It’s simple, we bring great food to you and serve it in your home. We are creating a better way of receiving a hot lunch at home, promoting a healthy diet, social connection and independent living. Our mission is to make a real difference to the lived experience of many who eat alone and create meaningful connections through food. 

We have a loneliness epidemic in the UK. According to the ‘Campaign to End Loneliness’, in 2022, 49.63% of adults (25.99 million people) in the UK reported feeling lonely occasionally, sometimes, often or always. They also reported that approximately 7.1% of people in Great Britain (3.83 million) experience chronic loneliness, meaning that they feel lonely ‘often or always’.

The Kitchen Companions provide a service similar to meals on wheels in Gloucestershire, where we bring healthy food straight to your home, and serve it with a side of companionship. Creating a sense of connection over food is important to us,  with mealtimes being a natural space for community and companionship for family and friends, we’re extending this as a service to those that need it. 

More than just a meal

Our companions are local to you, making you a hot meal whilst spending time with you and providing you with companionship. Your wellbeing is their priority too, so they will also make sure that you are safe and connect you to other services if you are in need. 

If this service sounds like something that you’d be interested in receiving or working to provide then please do get in touch. 

“I am thrilled, the quality of the food is great, the service is also brilliant and Lydia the companion is wonderful.” - Ms R (Family Member)

Find out more about being a companion here. 

Let us know if you or someone you know might benefit from our service here.