Welcome to Jane Wilson who is our new Deputy Manager at the Foodkind CIC community shop and hub. Jane applied to us after being a long time volunteer collector and shop assistant. The timing was perfect as she’d just left the NHS after 19 years. She said she was looking for a new challenge. The…
Foodkind C.I.C is delighted to announce that Kathryn White is joining our not-for-profit organisation as Executive Chair. Kathryn has over thirty years’ experience in the charitable sector and will lead the Board of Directors. She’ll also be supporting the dedicated staff and volunteers who run our community shop, emergency parcels and food redistribution projects in…
Volunteers needed! We urgently need help to bring collections of food in from supermarkets and restaurants to our Foodkind Hub. If you have a car and can be available for a few hours a week, we would love to hear from you. Please email collections@foodkind.co.uk to find out more. Collections are usually mornings or evenings…
Our core mission may be to avoid food being wasted, but we are conscious that in the cost of living crisis that the Community Shop helps many people. We are grateful to work with several local food banks who refer people on to us, especially as they cannot help everyone. Many of you will know…
We are moving all our social media and signage to our new logo, designed to be part of a marketing campaign for our Northampton Hub and new projects. Lots of stories and videos will appear, as we try and include more suppliers in this positive impact. Please email impact@foodkind.co.uk with enquiries.
A belated thank you to the many people who supported our appeals for winter coats and Christmas presents and shared among our recipient organisations. We aimed to be child-focused with the presents, with our generous donors buying a present a child had asked for in advance: the Christmas wishes made it so much more meaningful…
Foodkind CIC was delighted to appear at a national event attended by many of the leaders or supermarkets, restaurants and manufacturers who contribute surplus food to us, as a representative of a Fareshare accredited organisation. Sophia appeared for us via zoom and said the stream of comments from people around the UK was really heartening…
Can you help collect for Foodkind CIC, or work in our hub or Shop Zero? We couldn’t run without our wonderful teams of volunteers, who were recognised in the Local Food Hero Awards 2022. Our projects are run by people with diverse backgrounds and life experience. As well as wanting to save good food from…
Our volunteer team covered the whole of the Northampton Balloon Festival in August to raise awareness about preventing waste food. We chatted to the public about how we ‘rescue’ surplus and find creative ways to share it. Some wanted to become part of our team too. Wasted food is a huge challenge for the planet,…
