A curated experience series · London · 23+

Make something. Meet someone.

KUMI is a collective of small, hands-on evenings. A kitchen, a good table, a handful of people worth knowing, and no name badges.

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Now booking · The Gathering Nº 02

Second Helpings.

A long Saturday brunch for people in corporate. French toast, stacks of pancakes, slow coffee, and a table of people you’ll be glad you met.

Date: Saturday 21 November3 to 6pm
Place: BranchéTooting Bec, London SW17
Price: £32a person, paid on the day. Saving your seat is free.

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Three ways in.

Every KUMI experience is built around the same idea: people open up when their hands are busy. So we cook, we bake, we share a table, and the conversation takes care of itself.

Pick the one that fits your evening. Some are open to anyone on the list. One is invite only.

Cook with senior leaders

The shift after your nine to five.

Each Second Shift brings in one senior leader from finance, law, tech and beyond. They bring a recipe. Eight to ten of you cook it with them in a modern mansion kitchen.

By the time it's plated, you'll have had the kind of conversation a panel event never gives you. Real questions, honest answers, and nobody grilling anybody.

Less panel interview. More passing the salt.

1Senior leader

8–10Guests

1Recipe

0Panels

Meetups for people in corporate

Talk to the people you'd never meet at work.

The Gathering is KUMI's open meetup for people working in the corporate world. No agenda, no slides, no forced icebreakers. Just a good room and people who are glad they came.

Next: Second HelpingsA Saturday brunch at Branché in Tooting Bec, 21 November, 3 to 6pm. The first Gathering was at Pergola on the Wharf, and this one comes with French toast.

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Private members club · invite only

Invite only. Flour on everything.

Dough Diaries is KUMI's private members club. Small, hands-on baking nights for people who come for the dough and stay for each other.

Batch 01

First Slice

A girls-only DIY pizza session. Stretch it, top it, argue about pineapple.

Girls onlyPizza

Batch 02

The Midnight Batch

A mixed, late, easy night of baking brownies and getting to know each other. Very fun.

MixedBrownies

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How a KUMI night happens.

1Join the list

Tell us who you are and which series you're curious about.

2Get the invite

Dates drop to the list first. Spaces are small, so they go quickly.

3Make something

Aprons on. Everyone cooks, bakes or builds something together.

4Leave with people

The food's good. The people you meet are the bit that lasts.