Welcome to School Yard Kitchen, a growing Scottish social enterprise.
We create a range of products—from condiments, jams, and sauces to indulgent chocolates and snacks—using ingredients grown by our Ghanaian community partners.
22/06/2025
We’re buzzing to share something new… 🍯🔥
Say hello to Hot Honey — a sweet and spicy blend of Scottish honey infused with Ghanaian chillies.
Crafted in small batches, it’s perfect for drizzling over cheese, glazing roasted veg, or giving your pizza that extra kick.
It was an honour to introduce HRH The Princess Royal to School Yard Kitchen at the Royal Highland Show.
We spoke about our work with Ghanaian farmers, shared some tasty samples, and chatted about the bigger mission behind every product: helping to end child labour.
A moment we won’t forget — and a real highlight of an already unforgettable show.
20/06/2025
🏆 WE WON! 🏆
We’re absolutely thrilled to share that School Yard Kitchen has won a Tradestand Award at this year’s Royal Highland Show! 🎉
This recognition highlights everything that goes into what we do — from bold flavours and meaningful sourcing to genuine connection and education on the ground.
A huge thank you to the judges, the , and every single person who stopped by to chat, taste, and support a different way of doing things.
It’s not about the accolades — but we’re proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with so many brilliant producers, all celebrating what Scotland does best.
17/06/2025
It's Royal Highland Show Week!
We are inside Scotland's Larder with our full range and NEW HOT HONEY! 🍯
11/06/2025
Yesterday we attended the Huddle by at in Birmingham. A brilliant opportunity to connect with buyers and a fantastic excuse to show off our new bags!
30/05/2025
Our new ribbons, stickers and tags have arrived 🎁
26/05/2025
Our highlight of last week was delivering our first order to in Glasgow!
Of course we had to get a photo in front of their iconic building 💚
22/05/2025
Its barbeque season ☀️
We recommend trying our chilli flakes in a marinade for chicken 🍗
our herb rub mixed with your favourite oil to enhance your veg 🌽
and our chilli sea salt through a mayonnaise for the perfect dip 🌶
19/05/2025
🚨🚨NEW VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨
Kirkintillochs very own award winning School Yard Kitchen will be joining us June 1st when we are back at the Regent Centre car park
This amazing company right on our doorstep produces the very best in handmade chocolate and spread. Check out those pretzels too!!!
With our Sunday 1st June 10am till 2pm
The Regent Centre
Kirkintilloch BID
15/05/2025
A little snippet from Supper Club on Monday evening.
Their very talented chefs produced a mouth-watering menu, finishing off with a School Yard Kitchen raspberry chilli jam and pretzel cheesecake! 🌶🥨
06/05/2025
Our Chocolate Chilli Pretzels provide the perfect munch for a summer adventure 🥨🌞
Available in 130g bags and smaller 37g bags, they make the prefect backpack-snack!
25/04/2025
Our chilli creations have officially been recognised!
We’re absolutely chuffed to share that School Yard Kitchen has taken home two awards at the Clifton Chilli Club’s National Chilli Awards 2025!
Ghanaian Chilli Sea Salt
🥈 Silver in the Chilli Rubs & Seasonings category
— A bold blend of Ghanaian heat and sea salt, perfectly balanced for flavour and kick.
Lemongrass Chilli Sauce
🥉 Bronze in the Mild Chilli Sauce category
— Zesty lemongrass meets mellow chilli warmth, making it an everyday favourite.
Massive thanks to our brilliant supporters, your love and feedback fuel everything we do. These awards mean the world and inspire us to keep bringing the heat
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Ghana’s tropical climate is perfect for growing chillies.
Our chillies are grown in fertile, sun-drenched Eastern Ghana. They are handpicked when perfectly ripe then sun-dried in the traditional way, preserving their intense flavour. These chillies are then brought to Scotland where selected artisan producers create our wonderful range of sauces, dips and jams.
But that is only part of our story.
Schoolyard Chillies is a social enterprise that exists to provide you with some of the finest chilli products in the world and help some of the people of Ghana improve their difficult lives. Schoolyard Chillies works with small, independent farmers. We provide them with seeds at affordable prices, access to agricultural training, and a guaranteed route to market for their chillies. In return, we ask that no children are removed from school to work on their farms. This is a big issue in parts of Ghana and other African countries.
By buying our products you are not only going to enjoy a wonderful chilli product, you are helping provide stability and opportunity in one of the poorest regions in the world. This stability allows farmers to keep their children in school and through better education people are able to access better careers, and improve the community they live in. This is no hand-out, this is simply social responsibility in action. Helping people help themselves in a sustainable way.
Any profits made are reinvested in education which allows children to remain in school full time through Schoolyard Chillies. It is our firmly held belief that commerce should benefit both parties, by choosing to purchase Schoolyard Chillies you are getting a wonderful, authentic, sun ripened chilli product, safe in the knowledge that you are also helping to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in the world.