Earlier in the year, I was introduced to two people who had a plan to build a social enterprise helping people with basic cooking skills and developing them into little businesses that who knows, one day might become bigger businesses.

Pop-ups, food trucks, street markets and food markets all allow entrepreneurship to become more accessible and feasible to people with skills and vision but often without the resources, financially and technically, to fulfil their dreams.

At a time when I was busy ditching chairmanships (at one point hitting an absurd 10), I chose to take up the invitation to take on a programme called Kitchenette (www.wearekitchenette.com) because it covered so many of my interests in one – food, enterprise, diversity, sustainability, mentoring bring key.

We formed a group of advisors who have all taken on tasks, restaurants who have offered work experience and mentoring, businesses and foundations that have committed financial support and a new and compelling food social movement is about to take off. On Friday we were invited to Downing Street to discuss how food, alongside technology, could be a strong economic and cultural driver for Britain.

Our first batch of aspiring food entrepreneurs is now being cultivated and the programme is gaining huge momentum and interest, possibly even a TV series. This is one of the freshest, most innovative and delicious ways I have come across for people to use a core and perhaps once under-rated skill and have a team of experienced folk share that experience and possibly invest in this new breed of entrepreneurs in the making.

Technology may be Britain’s biggest export but at 14% hospitality remains our biggest employer. Kitchenette shows a great new way in which people can cook and eat their way out of the recession and into prosperity. Join us!