Meet a Member
Rachel Golding -
from Dinner on the Table
We deliver delicious, nutritious meals, just as if you'd made them yourself. Let us worry about getting dinner on your table
"Real Entrepreneur Mums is your best back up crew: a group of talented, engaged, driven and diverse professionals, committed to providing you with great support and expertise. I wouldn't want to run a business without them"
Dinner Just Got a Whole Lot Easier and Yummier
Rachel Golding hasn’t put dinner on the table for just her family this week, she has put dinner on the table for up to 800 people, with a portion of these dinner sales being donated to families with disabilities.
We busy entrepreneur mums go through the battle every evening planning, preparing and cleaning up after dinner for our families. Rachel reveals that, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, on average we spend 1 ¾ hours every day doing this. There simply has to be a better solution. Rachel has created that solution for us. Dinner on the Table was founded in January 2014 after a couple of her friends inspired her by saying, “I am just juggling too much and can’t keep up. I will pay you to cook my family dinner a couple of nights a week.” Does that sound familiar? Dinner on the Table is a social enterprise that takes the pressure off busy families by cooking and delivering family dinners.
But Rachel’s passion and vision goes so much deeper than that. Before Dinner on the Table came about Rachel was a postdoctoral fellow researching families with disabilities. Women with disabilities, and those who are looking after family members with disabilities are generally poorer; they are poorer in health with higher rates of depression. Their cost of living often increases but their earning potential decreases. and I sat down to chat about Dinner on the Table.
There are many services in Australia that support people with disabilities, but in general these services do not provide for the rest of the family. The wellbeing of the entire family is critical when a family is in crisis. Rachel’s big mission is to change the way we Australians provide support for these families with disabilities, providing the mothers in these situations some breathing space by providing healthy, good quality home cooked dinners. You’ve heard the saying, “Happy mum, happy family.”