Award Winning Bristol!
A couple of weeks ago FoodCycle Bristol won the Green Community Group award at Bristol’s Green Capital Awards. In this post, the wonderful Hub Leaders Alice Tirbooman and Jane Kilpatrick explain what happened on the night, and why they won the award! At FoodCycle Bristol we hold our meals in Barton Hill Settlement, where each […]
What will you do this New Year?
We all know that the beginning of a new year is the time for resolutions: losing a stone, running a marathon, eating less chocolate and flossing more regularly – the classics that seem to come round ever year. New Year, new you! seems to shout out from every magazine article or advertising billboard. Well, why […]
Lent: the time to be a Hub Leader
Lent is upon us and many of you will have now banned chocolate, crisps, biscuits, cake or cheese to pass your lips for the next 40 days. But we’ve got a challenge for you: instead of giving up one of the banned substances mentioned above, why not take up something up? Become a FoodCycle Hub […]
Love is in the air
Love it or loathe it, the 14th February is upon us again and on behalf of everyone here at FoodCycle, a very Happy Valentine’s Day to you all. This year has been particularly romantic across the FoodCycle family: we can’t name too many names but we know some wonderful FoodCycle couples in Clacton, Liverpool and […]
FoodCycle’s second impact report
After months of monitoring and evaluation, we’re so happy to announce our second social impact report! It’s the culmination of lots of hard work in our Hubs and a celebration of all that our projects have achieved. Highlights from 2015 include: 7 new projects opened over 38,000 community meals served 82% of our guests say […]
FoodCycle’s Green & Pleasant Land!
It’s been months in the planning but our big fundraising dinner ‘Green & Pleasant Land‘ is almost upon us: seven star chefs will each cook a course that celebrates British produce, our landscape and the communities we work to support across the country. Guests will be entertained by food critic and jazz musician, Jay Rayner, […]
London to Brighton 2016
Saddle up for the iconic London to Brighton cycle this September and raise money for FoodCycle! Join over 4,000 cyclists, raising money for over 100 different charities, and take the epic London to Brighton this September. You don’t need any experience – just lots of enthusiasm and a passion to fight food waste and food […]
Kenwood’s kitchen takeover
This post is written by Roisin Kay, Hub Leader at FoodCycle Portsmouth and Recipe Development Chef (what a great title!) at Kenwood, one of FoodCycle’s charity partners. Last week, an enthusiastic team from Kenwood took part in a ‘kitchen takeover’ at Portsmouth Hub. Here’s how it all began…. The decision process Last autumn, Kenwood set […]
Londoners pay it forward for FoodCycle
In this big old city, squashed like a sardine on the commuter journey, it can sometime feel like random acts of kindness are a million miles away. For many, the capital can be an isolating place and positive interactions with strangers can sometimes feel few and far between. It’s for this reason that we were […]
FoodCycle Peckham: The Inside Track
In this guest post, Peckham Hub Leader Sam Oxley reflects on his time as a volunteer. As well as looking at what he has got out of volunteering with FoodCycle, Sam looks at the importance of community and the power food has to bring people together. When I first volunteered at Peckham’s FoodCycle Hub I […]
Mid Year Conference 2016: What a Day!
Last Saturday we hosted our Mid-year conference and 40 wonderful Hub Leaders from across the country came along. The first of our two conferences in 2016, the mid-year is a chance for us to all share and discuss developments at FoodCycle HQ and within our Hubs, for our Hub Leaders to receive training, and for […]
FoodCycle is seven!
FoodCycle is celebrating seven years of fighting poverty, tackling waste and bringing communities together through the power of good food. We’ve come a long way since our first meal (which, according to our founder Kelvin was a pot of ‘brown sludge’), and can’t believe how much FoodCycle has grown in just seven years. Thank you […]