Facebook shut me out of the page for our local cooking school

Facebook was vital in the success of a community project– until it suddenly disabled the account. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

I was setting up a community cooking school when the pandemic struck, and during the crisis we used our kitchens to run a surplus food project instead. It was used by thousands of people, and Facebook played a vital role in our success.

I’m back working on the original plan for the social enterprise but this week we suffered a big blow as I discovered my personal Facebook page, and the page for the cooking school, had been disabled.