Two Twickenham women have created a pop-up kitchen dedicated to healthy eating in memory of a loved one they lost to cancer.

Mary Anderson-Ford, from East Twickenham, and Chloë Bannerman, from Teddington, started LittleBee Kitchen last year after sister and sister-in-law Laura Anderson-Ford passed away after a four-year battle with secondary breast cancer in April 2016.

She was only a few weeks away from her 40th birthday.

Mary said: “Throughout her treatment she continue to live as full a life as she could, including world travel, singing in a Breast Cancer Choir and volunteering for CoppaFeel!, spreading the word about the importance of women checking themselves.

“We felt that what would be a really great way to honour her memory was by creating something incredibly healthy and full of life which – of course – by the end was something denied to her."

Asked about where the name originates from, she said: “It is based on the fact that, firstly, Laura was a big defender of the bees and how they are really important in our eco-system.

“But also because Laura was often know on social media as Lazzerbee, so it made sense to call it LittleBee Kitchen.”

Mary, 39, and Chloë, 38, work with head chefs and restaurateurs to design menus which replace traditional ingredients with healthier alternatives.

They also feature photos of dishes that aim to inspire others to follow their recipes.

She said: “Every day we post a different recipe, an inspiration for people to have a look and think, ‘Oh hang on, that looks like the sort of thing I could easily create’.

“We have had plenty of people say to us that they have lost significant amounts of weight from having followed that way of eating.”

Their first supper club was held at The Fallow Deer Café in Teddington last December, raising £1,700 for Kingston Hospital’s Cancer Unit.

Another supper club at Shambles, also in Teddington, followed in March which raised more than £6,300 by the organisers for Pancreatic Cancer Research in an ongoing campaign for someone who also suffers from the disease.

She added: “People realised that you don’t have to feel like you’re compromising what you want to eat by having a dessert, because actually you can have something which is created through healthy ingredients and is good for you.

“That is the essence of what we are doing with LittleBee, we want to promote the whole ‘eat the rainbow’ concept and I think that it’s just about putting colour, healthy ingredients and lots of vegetables on your plate.”

Tickets are now on sale for the vegan, gluten-free Thai supper club at The Swan in Hampton Wick.

To book call 0208 8977 2644, and for more information visit https://littlebeekitchen.co.uk