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 from the 18-20th August to chat to people above preventing waste food and 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, so we…
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 wish to thank Northamptonshire Community Foundation, Local Giving, Neighbourly, Waitrose, Fareshare and Happy to Help C IC for their financial support for their continued, and vital, support of our food aid project ‘Bags of Good’ during the Covid-19 crisis and since and in setting up Shop Zero’s new hub. Their grants have allowed our…
Foodkind CIC 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 going to waste, it can be a great way to get work experience -…