The Big Give Christmas Challenge
The Big Give Christmas Challenge We’re excited to let you know that FoodCycle has been selected to participate in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, the UK’s largest match funding campaign. We will be raising money to help us continue nourishing our communities through the winter months. This time of year can be extremely hard for our […]
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 […]
Help us raise £5,000 for new Chelmsford Project
Today is the launch of Aviva’s Community Fund Crowdfunder, raising money to help us open the FoodCycle doors in Chelmsford. The new project will serve a deprived area with a large homeless population and many living on a low income, who will really benefit from a big FoodCycle welcome, a free weekly hot meal and […]
FoodCycle’s 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner
In May, we held our most ambitious meal to date, our 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner at Fishmongers’ Hall in London for over 100 supporters. To celebrate 10 years of FoodCycle and providing 1 Million meals we brought together a Michelin star-studded cast of chefs to create an unforgettable six-course meal. Canapés by Danilo Cortellini Amuse-Bouche by […]
A Week Less Wasted in the Office
‘A Week Less Wasted‘ is our nationwide challenge to cut all food waste for a week in August. In the UK we waste 7 million tonnes of food every year while 8.4 million people are struggling to feed themselves. A problem this size calls for big solutions. But there’s a smaller solution to this crisis […]
Top Tips to Reduce Food Waste
Have you signed up to take part in A Week Less Wasted? Our nationwide sponsored challenge to reduce food waste for a week in August. There’s still time. Sign up, ask your family and friends to back you and then let no food go to waste for a week. We’re here to share some of […]
A Week Less Wasted
‘A Week Less Wasted‘ is our nationwide challenge to cut all food waste for a week in August. In the UK we waste 7 million tonnes of food every year while 8.4 million people are struggling to feed themselves. A problem this size calls for big solutions. But there’s a smaller solution to this crisis […]
Fooditude 💚 The Food Invention Challenge
We’d like to welcome our friends at Fooditude to ‘Using Your Loaf’. They have written a guest post all about our partnership and the Food Invention Challenge. FoodCycle and Fooditude We are Fooditude, a catering company that delivers fresh, healthy and delicious meals, cooked from scratch to tech and media firms across central London. Our […]
Ministers challenged to guarantee food for vulnerable people in the event of a no deal Brexit
As featured in Huffington Post today, food banks, homeless hostels and domestic violence refuges are among the services that may struggle to provide food for vulnerable adults and children as a result of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, food aid providers have warned the government. It has been told it must as a “matter of urgency” […]
Double the impact of your Corporate Giving
Octopus Group has been one of our brilliant corporate partners since January 2018. Their approach to corporate giving maximises their contribution and ensures we can continue to nourish communities across the country. Octopus supports FoodCycle in several different ways including annual giving, staff fundraising, in-kind gifts and staff volunteering. Our FoodCycle projects rely on the hard work of volunteers […]
