Teams of students, together with their parents, have been contributing to families nominated by community agencies by preparing and serving special banquets to them. 

​The agencies have included Auckland Womens Refuge, Oranga Tamariki, Child Cancer Foundation, Salvation Army, Open Home Foundation, amongst others.

The banquets help with restoring the dignity of nominated families, honouring them, and showing they are worthy of a celebratory gourmet dinner of their choosing.

Our banquets emphasise the specialness of our guests, treating them in the best way we can, to the best experience, making it an event they’ll never forget.  

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​Chefs for Compassion provide schools with guidance and resources to help them run dinner events smoothly.

Our objective with the students is that they experience compassion in action through their involvement, and to also have this value reinforced and modelled by the adults in their lives.

Importantly, with our health and safety policy of changing people’s behaviour, one habit at a time, students are taught how to be compassionate when under pressure.  

Safeguarding from being angry, bullying hot-headed when under pressure, into treating others in the best way we know how – compassionately, by improving our behaviour and appreciating others.
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Here at CfC the kitchen is used as the gymnasium to help shape our leaders of tomorrow, transforming a culture of blaming and battling others, to one of no blame and improving ourselves and appreciating others.  
Students, parents, and recipient families have all reported this as being a unique and richly rewarding experience in compassion for all involved.