Zero Waste, Zero Hunger: the technology behind London's Community Kitchen

GIS Analytics is an AI and data engineering consultancy. Most of our work is for businesses. But some of it is for a charity network in Harrow that helps feed London, and that work matters to us as much as anything we ship.

We are the engineering and data partner to London's Community Kitchen (LCK), the charity founded by Taz Khan MBE under a simple banner: Zero Waste, Zero Hunger. Food that would have been thrown away is rescued, cooked, and served, and people are trained to cook it. The numbers below are from LCK's own reporting.

LCK has trained 723 chefs, mobilised more than 600 volunteers, and welcomed a royal visit from HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla. It is a grassroots operation with the reach of a national one.

Turning a network into a platform

Around LCK sits a family of connected ventures, each with its own audience and its own story to tell. Our job has been to turn that sprawling, fast-moving network into a coherent digital platform:

• A dozen production websites, one for each part of the ecosystem: LCK and its Youth Academy, Harmony Kitchen (the café and catering brand), LDN SIP (a carton-water brand where one carton buys one meal), the DasDas Box London arts venue, Taz Khan's own site, and The King of Sustainability.
• An impact platform that gathers the ecosystem's events and outcomes into one place, so the team can see what is working and tell that story to donors and partners.
• A knowledge-graph model of how the whole ecosystem interlocks, its charities, ventures and programmes, developed alongside our UCL research partnership on transparent, graph-powered analytics. It is the same thinking behind our Company Brain, applied to doing good.

The ecosystem also runs Project Second Chance, a rehabilitation-through-food training programme at HMP Pentonville, and partners internationally through NeedsMap. Everything is built to be simple and warm, because it serves donors, journalists and councils, not engineers.

London Climate Action

For London Climate Action Week 2026 we designed and built londonclimateaction.org, a plain-English "Climate A to Z" and hub for the week, on the road to COP31 in Antalya. It is exactly the kind of work we do for this ecosystem: take something sprawling, and make it simple enough that anyone can use it.

Organising the Zero Waste Hub

We did more than build the site. During London Climate Action Week we helped organise and run the Zero Waste Hub itself, a week-long programme of talks and workshops, in partnership with London's Community Kitchen, the DasDas Box London venue, and international partners NeedsMap and IDEMA.

The logistics ran on Luma, the events platform. We used its developer tools to wire the moving parts together: registrations, guest lists, session scheduling and check-in on the door, kept in sync across a busy week and a room full of partners. When several organisations co-host an event, the hard part is not the talks, it is the coordination behind them, and that quiet logistics work is exactly what we take off the team's plate.

None of this is glamorous engineering. It is a dozen small static sites, a handful of dashboards, and a data model, kept deliberately simple so a charity team can run them without us. But behind those plain pages is a real outcome: food rescued, people fed, and a second chance built into the system. That is a good use of a data team.