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 […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recipes to Reduce Food Waste at Home
When our volunteers pick up a donation of surplus food from our generous suppliers, they have no idea what they are going to get. So our cooking teams need to be very creative when they decide what recipe they are going to use. This decision includes how many guests they are cooking for and how […]