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 […]
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 […]
A Student Volunteers Experience
Recently, we visited one of our Salford based projects and had a chat with a student volunteer who also regularly visits the meal as a guest. In their own words, they told us what they think about FoodCycle. Volunteering as a student I am a student at the University of Manchester and I first moved […]
FoodCycle is 10!
It’s 10 years since we served our first ever meal to guests at FoodCycle LSE. Since then we have grown to support 40 projects across England, serving meals to 1,500 guests each week and providing a welcoming space to chat and make friends. Here are some of our highlights! Please help us to continue nourishing […]
Volunteer Awards Launch
This Volunteers Week, we launched our FoodCycle Volunteer Awards to recognise and say thank you to the incredible people who help us nourish communities across the country. So, we looked at the hours our volunteers had donated and designed a system to reward them for every milestone they reached. For 50 hours – Volunteers receive […]
5 Ways to Make a Difference with FoodCycle in 2019
Are you looking to make a difference in your community? To have an impact and meet new people, consider getting involved at FoodCycle! Here are five ways to help us with our mission to nourish communities and create a society where no-one is hungry on lonely. Eat with us Come share conversation over some delicious […]
How being a volunteer boosted my confidence
Mathew Hales is a Project Leader at FoodCycle Birmingham Sutton, one of our newest projects! Here he explains how he came to be involved as a volunteer, what he enjoys about it and how it has helped to build his confidence. I have been out of work since February last year from the hospitality management […]
Why I love being a FoodCycle volunteer in Newcastle
Zoe has given over 150 hours to FoodCycle Monkchester (Newcastle), making their tasty, community meals happen each week. We asked her why she took the opportunity to join FoodCycle as a volunteer, what being a Project Leader entails and what she most enjoys from her volunteering role. Read on to learn more! How does it […]
Fundraisers to friendship: 10 Inspiring FoodCycle stories
We’ve been nourishing communities for ten wonderful years, and over our time we’ve been utterly inspired by the people who make FoodCycle happen – from our guests and volunteers, to our fundraisers and partners. So to celebrate our ripe old age, here are ten things that make us say ‘WOW’. Lewisham fundraiser When it comes […]