Trusted on set: Cornwall & Devon
How does Salt Wind Catering feed a complete film unit base in Cornwall and Devon?
Salt Wind Catering feeds your whole crew from breakfast at call time through to wrap: hot lunches at the truck, craft service on rotation, and clearly labelled dietary lists across cast and crew. Our self-contained mobile kitchen needs no infrastructure at the unit base, reaching remote no-power sites across Cornwall and Devon. Crew catering starts from £30 +VAT per head; facilities are quoted separately by JW Film Facilities, with both tailored per production by quote.
A complete film unit base brings every off-camera need into one coordinated setup. Salt Wind Catering provides the crew catering and craft; JW Film Facilities provides honey wagons, green rooms, makeup and costume, dining, transport and power. Two specialists who already work together across Cornwall and Devon, booked once, contracted as two separate companies. We have catered 700+ events across Cornwall & Devon since 2024, hold 5.0★ from 66 reviews, and feed crews from 20 upwards.
The challenge
A remote, off-grid Cornwall location with no mains services and a narrow single-track approach, and a crew that still needs feeding, changing and a warm place to sit.
The old way
Three or four suppliers from up-country who have never met, each guessing at access, all arriving at once, and a unit manager refereeing instead of running the day.
The coordinated way
Catering on at call. Honey wagon in position. Green room stocked. The location manager on the radio, not the phone, because the unit base was placed once, by two local teams who've done it before, together.
£10M
Public Liability
1999
JW Facilities Since
14+
Facility Vehicles
48h
Quote Turnaround
[ 01 ] On the unit base
What's on the unit base?
01 · Catering: Salt Wind Catering
- Hot breakfasts, lunches and dinners to set
- All-day craft services: coffee, snacks and hot rounds
- Hot-boxed delivery or on-site mobile kitchen
- Every dietary requirement, clearly labelled
- Fully self-contained: gas, water, waste, power
- Works to call sheets, early calls and night shoots
02 · Facilities: JW Film Facilities
- Honey wagons: close-to-set and full-crew units
- Green rooms and tutor-compliant school room
- Makeup and costume trucks
- Crew transport and kit shuttles
- 36-seat dining trailer
- Unit base power and generators
JW Film Facilities fleet, Cornwall, since 1999. Photos courtesy of JW Film Facilities.
[ 02 ] Local, coordinated, low-impact
Can a unit base reach remote West Country locations?
JW runs smaller, greener vehicles made for narrow Cornish lanes and remote locations, including a compact honey wagon for close-to-set deployment where full-size up-country fleets cannot reach. Paired with Salt Wind Catering's self-contained mobile kitchen and local sourcing, it's a unit base that suits productions with sustainability targets.
[ 03 ] Local vs nationwide
Why book a local unit-base caterer?
On the ground in the South-West versus a nationwide caterer travelling in, what changes for your production.
| Consideration | Salt Wind Catering on the ground in the South-West | A nationwide caterer travelling in |
|---|---|---|
| Response & lead time | Local team; quotes typically the same day during office hours and a recce that doesn't need a day's drive first. | Slower to mobilise; site visits mean a long haul before a single decision is made. |
| Cornish location knowledge | We already know the lanes, the hardstandings and the no-power coves from Bude to the Lizard. | Guessing at access from a map; surprises on the day cost the unit time. |
| Road miles & carbon | Short runs from our Redruth base, fewer road miles and lower carbon on your production's footprint. | Hundreds of miles each way, billed back to you and added to the shoot's emissions. |
| Self-contained on remote / no-power sites | Self-contained mobile kitchen: no mains power or venue kitchen needed on remote sites. | Often depends on supplied power or a venue kitchen that a clifftop simply doesn't have. |
Sustainability
A greener unit base
Salt Wind Catering cooks on location from its own mobile kitchen, made to order against the call sheet with compostable packaging, and we are an albert-aligned supplier for productions working to sustainability targets. Commercials and brand shoots report to AdGreen instead, and the per-event sustainability statement covers either. We source from named Cornish suppliers: Prima Bakeries, RJ Trevarthen, Westcountry Food and Continental Fruit & Veg, keeping food miles and the unit base's footprint low.
Read how we keep catering low-impact →[ 04 ] Coverage
Where do you cover?
Bude to the Lizard · Plymouth to Exeter
Salt Wind Catering is based in Redruth; JW Film Facilities in central Cornwall. We work each location on its own access terms, not a postcode list, a plan.
- Remote clifftops & coves
- Drop-and-serve from the nearest hardstanding; compact honey wagon close to set.
- Narrow single-track lanes
- JW's smaller West Country vehicles where full-size up-country fleets can't reach.
- Car-park-only locations
- Scheduled hot-box rounds to your call sheet; unit base placed at the access point.
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Crew size, shoot dates and location (attach the call sheet if you have one) and the quote comes back the same day during office hours.
