A Harrow-based food delivery platform that provides home cooked meals is calling for more community chefs to join.

NoshyCircle is celebrating its one-year anniversary after being set up amid the pandemic, providing a platform for home chefs to compete with restaurants in providing meals to local homes.

It first went live in just Harrow and Wembley but has since stretched out its services to Watford and Aylesbury.

There are 30 cooks currently hired who create homemade-style meals in their home kitchens, which is then delivered to customers by NoshyCircle’s delivery team.

Founder Subha Ganesh, 39, used crowdfunding to set up the idea and received more than £100,000 in investment.

Now NoshyCircle is looking to expand its services even more, by hiring more home chefs who can create healthy and nutritious meals.

All cooks must be registered with their respective councils and have a minimum Level 2 Food Safety Certificate, whilst all delivery drivers must be DBS-checked.

The CEO said: “We’re passionate about bringing back home cooked meals to our dining room tables by creating a mobile and web marketplace for registered cooks – we’re the Airbnb for home cooks!”

Talking about the learning-curve in the past year, the CEO continued: “We have learnt a lot in our first year and I’m delighted to say that 98 per cent of our orders were delivered on time during our first 12 months, with a very low 0.5% cancellation rate and 60 per cent repeat order rate.”

NoshyCircle is intended to eventually expand further away from north west London and Hertfordshire – reaching major cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool.