Episode 115: Alex Head

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Kat Rulach

Kids & Family, Arts, Music, Parenting

4.8 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alex Head is the founder of Social Pantry which runs food events with the wow factor, as well as a restaruant, and a cafe. I first met Alex this Summer where she was rustling up a banquet twice a day, in a tent at Latitude Festval. Two of the banquets featured food from 'Love, Food, Family' and Richard and I had the much easier job of meeting and greeting everybody there.

Alex got into catering aged 16 when she was expelled from school in Saudi, just before her GCSEs. As she says, she was quite naughty. But she ended up setting up a sandwich-making business to keep herself busy.

Fast forward a few decades and Alex now runs Social Pantry which she describes as a non-shouty and nurturing catering environment where she often employs ex-offenders, to help them create a new life for themselves outside of prison.

Alex and her husband George had a daughter Roxy, aged 3, who was born just before the pandemic, and they now have a one year old son Eddie.

Alex spoke to me about Eddie's diagnosis of Down's Syndrome while she was pregnant, and how she and George made the decision to continue with the pregnancy, and what a gorgeous, smiley boy Eddie is. This I can vouch for, as I love to see Alex's happy Instagram posts showing Eddie beaming, at the centre of his family.

Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work.
0:14.1	I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, so I spin a few plates myself.
0:22.3	Being a mother can be the most amazing thing.
0:24.9	It can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions.
0:28.3	I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.
0:31.9	Welcome to spinning plates.
0:37.1	Hello, I'm home. The tour's over. Look, if you came to see the band and I over the last 16 dates we've done, thank you so much. It's been incredible, actually.
0:53.3	It's always a bit nerve-wracking when you do a tour because you've got no idea, you know, who's going to come, how it's going to go. And it's just been a really glorious tour. Really smooth, really fun, really festive, really joyful. Crowds have been awesome. Just been
1:14.9	really, really happy. So thank you. I'm a little tired today. Actually, not because of the gigs,
1:20.5	because we finished in Birmingham last night. Then I had to kind of sort out all the stuff,
1:27.0	ready to come home. And yeah, just today I'm
1:31.0	sort of packing stuff. I got up at about, oh, blimey. I think it was about quarter to seven this
1:36.9	morning, having got to bed about two. So I definitely feel a little bit fatigued, but can you hear my
1:43.5	joyful children downstairs. But I'm definitely, definitely happy to be back, but can you hear my joyful children downstairs, but I'm
1:45.3	definitely, definitely happy to be back, but in that nice way where, like, everything's gone well
1:48.7	and you're feeling really chilled. So I just can close this door. It's my tumble drawer, just
1:53.2	getting on with all my washing. It's quite funny, actually. I just, um, all my tour clothes are like
1:59.7	sequins and tinsel dresses and things and leotards.
2:04.2	So you can't really wash them properly. So I just, I don't know if this is how you're supposed to
2:08.6	wash them. This is what I do. I was run a big bubble bath and then I kind of stomp in the bath and
2:13.3	like slosh them around a bit. It seems to work, but it does look really funny.
2:18.3	I mean, there's all these bubbles and all this tensile and beating and sequence popping
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