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 […]
FoodCycle Strikes for the Climate
On Friday 20th September, we’ll be setting an ‘out-of-office’ and hitting the streets to join the millions of people standing in solidarity with the youth-led Global #ClimateStrike. FoodCycle represents a community of over 10,000 volunteers, who feed 1,600 guests a week using food that would otherwise be wasted. Food waste and the environment Both our volunteers […]
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 […]
Cycling to rescue surplus food in Newcastle
FoodCycle is growing in the North East and so is its need for cyclists. Every week, three-course community meals are served up – free of charge! – in three different venues across Newcastle, all of which are created from rescued food waste. At FoodCycle Monkchester, based in Walker, this food is collected by bike. Using […]
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 […]
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 […]
FoodCycle HQ take part in food waste challenge
Last week, FoodCycle HQ took part in our ‘A Week Less Wasted’ Challenge. For this, we pledged not to waste any edible food for a week – no leaves, no seeds, no nothing. Anything we did waste we kept a record of, before composting it. Here is how we got on. Miriam A Week Less […]