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…
We are delighted to have a level 5 category on our food hygiene awarded by the Environmental Health Department. It is thanks to the hard work and training of staff and volunteers. However, we must all be vigilant and there are some tips for customers we always share in the shop: Best Before dates are…
We are delighted to be finalists in the Weetabix Sustainability Award ! The organisers say, “Rewarding businesses for taking action to help build a more sustainable, greener and better future, must be celebrated. The Weetabix Sustainability Awards exhibit how our society can, with good leadership, move through post pandemic recovery into a new and more…
We are completely dependent on the amazing collectors, goods handlers and shop assistants who volunteer with us. They are all committed to the mission and we hope they get a lot out of knowing how much difference their hard work makes…but it is lovely that they are also recognised from recent award nominations as University…
Covid-19 led us to close our Kettering and Northampton community shops, as well as our community cafes: Elsie’s and Cafe Zero and end work with a number of affiliate cafes. After sustained loss of earnings for our social enterprise during the pandemic, only the Northampton Shop Zero reopened. At the beginning of 2022, it was…