Keeping positive at work in challenging times
On Monday FoodCycle had to take the difficult decision to put our 42 projects across the country on pause. This was particularly hard for the staff team as we know first-hand how many people rely on the service for a meal every week. Last week, our team worked exceptionally hard to change our meals to […]
FoodCycle Delivers
*Please note, FoodCycle no longer delivers food parcels. This was a temporary service which was set up in response to the COVID pandemic. FoodCycle runs weekly community meals, find your nearest meal now! Our guests need us more than ever and whilst we can’t run our community meals at the moment, we are pleased to […]
Delivery Update
6,500 people a week are benefiting from a FoodCycle food parcel Over the past few months, FoodCycle has been faced with its biggest challenge yet, having to completely adapt the operational model, whilst still being able to get food to vulnerable guests. After numerous meetings; adapting to daily changes and government guidelines; collaborating with numerous […]
Fruit Layer Cake
Recipe by Kar Yee Kary Yee has previously volunteered with us at FoodCycle Bow Road. As a nod to Easter and the simnel cake I’ve never got round to making, I’ve come up with this cake. Steeping the fruit gently in some liquid first makes them extra juicy and you have a choice of […]
Fiery Chocolate Overnight Oats
Jades’ Recipe Jade has previously volunteered with us at FoodCycle Langworthy. Hello, my name is Jade Mottley and I am a Fitness & Nutrition Coach based in Manchester. With it being Easter this weekend and a celebration for many that involves chocolate I wanted to share with you a chocolate overnight oats recipe. This […]
Chargrilled Stuffed Peppers
Linda’s recipe I’m a regular volunteer cook at Westgate Foodcycle in Newcastle (which I absolutely love and am missing at the moment! ), but as a Food Stylist, I am passionate about food and love creating! I am more than happy to share some of my creations with the Foodcyle community, here is one of […]
Vegetable Frittata
Claudine’s Recipe Claudine has volunteered with us at FoodCycle Kilburn Now that supermarkets are slowly returning back to normal and eggs are back in stock `hurrah’, I thought I’d share a great Vegetable Frittata recipe to help use up any veg you have in your fridge just sitting there that your not quite sure what […]
Food on Prescription
We’re excited to share this insight into our FoodCycle Sutton project in partnership with the College of Medicine and ITN Productions. Thank you to Natasha Kaplinsky OBE, Jon Gibson, Marks and Spencer’s and our wonderful volunteers for being involved. This video was shown as part of the Food on Prescription Conference in London this week […]
FoodCycle Clacton is back!
FoodCycle Clacton is back to providing free meals using food that would otherwise be wasted. FoodCycle Clacton is reopening, offering free lunches to the local community every Monday at its new Pier Avenue Baptist Church venue. Launching on Monday 2 December at 12 noon, the meal, produced by local volunteers, is looking forward to welcoming […]
FoodCycle in 2019: Our Best Bits
Welcome to a roundup of some of the best bits from FoodCycle in our 10th Anniversary year. Our volunteers achieved this! That’s the equivalent of a one-storey house full of surplus food, enough meals to feed the city of Coventry and seven years worth of volunteer hours. It’s an incredible achievement and we can’t thank […]
Corporate Festive Fundraising: five great examples
Our corporate partners have done a great job of coming up with innovative ways to fundraise for FoodCycle this festive season. So much so that we wanted to share their ideas. Thank you to our amazing partners for their support. Just Eats’ Black Friday Campaign Just Eat kicked off the festive season by reimagining its […]
Supporting FoodCycle is good for you…
As a registered charity, FoodCycle and our weekly meals rely on the support of companies for funding, local publicity, in-kind donations, pro-bono expertise and volunteering hours. However, our relationships with our supporters and partners are mutually beneficially and here’s why. Volunteering at a FoodCycle meal Offering your employees dedicated hours to volunteer can be extremely rewarding […]