Social Supper Club

A Table That Connects

The Social Supper Club is a community project by COOLINARIK. Young people, seniors and refugees come together to create a public dinner.

One evening.

One team.

One shared goal.

What emerges is more than a dinner. It is connection.

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Why This Project Matters

Loneliness affects different generations in different ways. Young people search for direction. Seniors lose social connections. Refugees rebuild their lives in a new country.

The Social Supper Club intentionally brings these three groups together.

Not as a support program.

But as a shared project.

When people cook, plan, decide and take responsibility together, trust grows. Participants experience themselves not as a “group with a problem,” but as a team with a purpose.

This is how social integration becomes real and tangible.

Integration Through Shared Action

At the Social Supper Club, people from different generations and backgrounds collaborate on equal terms. Everyone contributes something: experience, energy, culture, knowledge.

Young people gain perspective and new role models.

Seniors contribute stability and life experience.

Refugees become visible as active co-creators.

Relationships form beyond the evening. New networks. New conversations. A new sense of belonging.

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Real Opportunities for Professional Pathways

The Social Supper Club connects social encounter with real opportunities.

Through partnerships with restaurants, food production companies and agricultural partners, direct access to the job market is created.

Refugee participants demonstrate their skills in practice. Businesses get to know motivated individuals in action. This can lead to internships, assignments or further professional conversations.

A community dinner becomes a bridge to employment.

A Growing, Self-Sustaining Model

The Social Supper Club is designed as a social start-up. The goal is to become largely self-sustaining within two years.

Pop-up dinners, business partnerships and volunteer engagement from former participants contribute to long-term financing. The model can be expanded to other regions.

The Social Supper Club stands for connection instead of isolation.

Collaboration instead of separation.

And real opportunities through shared action.

Interested in joining or hosting a Social Supper Club?

Get in touch with us.