Feeding Hearts is the awareness arm of Creative Services Support Group (CSSG). Our initiative Feeding Hearts develops awareness, cultivates talent and feeds young minds. The awareness feeds kindred hearts inspiring them to reach out to the youth and support them through CSSG’s programmes and activities.
Year of Women 2015
As part of our on-going initiatives this year we are focussing on women.
2015 will be the Year of Women, aiming to give young women from underprivileged backgrounds a voice. Working with young women, CSSG has that they often have no role models to inspire them to achieve their full potential and their dreams and aspirations are often side-lined due to preconceptions and societal pressures. To celebrate the Year of Women we have put together a series of fundraising and outreach events including Dinners, Masterclasses, Edible Ethical Education programme and an Art Gender Re-education outreach programme for which we are getting support from all corners of the world.
Within a short space of time we have already touched the lives of over 200 young women and intend to more than double this by the end of the year.
CSSG 2014
2014 will be our year of consolidation; the focus will be on awareness and capacity building in order to allow people to understand and support the charity’s cause and develop our organizational impact. Instead of having a big year-end event in autumn, CSSG has decided to push it back to February.
Food and Art Edition 2013
In 2013 CSSG held their first Multi City event involving international Michelin star chefs. The chefs were invited to help celebrate ‘Food and Art’ taking a journey across two cites in a five day event. During that time they held master classes and culinary events at the Leela Palace, New Delhi and the Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai in support of CSSG. The Chefs also visited schools and conducted interesting sessions of master classes with the students of Vasant Valley and Teach India school in Delhi which provided an opportunity for the students to explore their creativity and learn about the world of gastronomy from some of the most successful chefs in world.
Year of Gastronomy 2012
In 2012 CSSG put its focus on the Gastronomy sector, using food to bring people together for the creative sectors.The Gastronomy Summit brought together the best names in the international culinary industry. The summit opened at The Leela Palace in New Delhi followed by a fundraiser charity dinner at The Oberoi, Gurgaon for underprivileged individuals who expressed the desire to pursue a career in the gastronomy sector. It further featured six renowned international chefs, four of whom are Michelin starred – AnjumAnand, Ian Curley, Frances Atkins, Vineet Bhatia, Laurie Gear, and Marcello Tully – who were in conversation with key Indian food experts like VirSanghvi, RashmiUday Singh, Natasha Khurana, Advaita Kala and MarryamReshi. The sit-down dinner featured nine courses, prepared by the guest chefs.
The Launch 2011
The Creative Services Support was launched in April 2011 at the Aman Hotel in New Delhi with exciting guests like KumariSelja, Minister of Cultureand renowned actor, Sharmila Tagore as the Chief Guest. Sir Richard Stagg, The British High Commissioner to India inaugurated the launch with the Founder of CSSG, AnandKapoor and co-hosts Sir Mark Tully and Amin Jaffer.