Created by and for the community, HU3 Come to Tea is a food inspired, community-led, festival with a difference.
It works alongside high street businesses, local food providers, artists, local community groups and residents to unearth, connect, inspire and fill bellies. In an area more typically dealing with food poverty Come to Tea galvanises the incredibly international population around the unifying potential of food and raise awareness of what HU3 offers.
It brings people together at picnics, exhibitions, breakfast clubs, chippy tea’s… in pubs, shops, cafes, churches, street… to experience food and food stories made in the area by locals, businesses and groups.
HU3 Come to Tea grew out of a series of Food for Thought gatherings during 2022/23, facillitated by EofUs. These meals brought the wider community together to collectively think, seek funding and then act.
For further 2024 festival details see hu3cometotea on Instagram and Facebook.
The legacy of this years festival continues through initiatives that emerged these include: a regular healthy lunch offer to NHS workers at Hull Infirmary delivered on a bike, exhibitions of artworks in Rayners Pub and Heritage Fisheries, a HU3 collective of volunteers and organisations providing catering to organisations across the city, creative workshops, meals and cooking actvities in the area. And finally a desire to keep going.
HU3 Come to Tea core leadership team are Tom Robinson, Adam Hawley, Ruby Deverral and EofUs
Photo credits: George Norris and EofUs
