FoodCycle

FoodCycle
Founded 2008
Founder Kelvin Cheung
Type Charity
1134423
Focus Food waste in the United Kingdom, Food Poverty and Volunteering
Location
Area served
 United Kingdom
Key people
 Kelvin Cheung (Founder)
Mary McGrath (Chief Executive Officer)
Slogan FoodCycle builds communities by combining volunteers, surplus food and spare kitchen spaces to create nutritious meals for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation.
Website foodcycle.org.uk

FoodCycle is a UK charity (no. 1134423) that combines surplus food, spare kitchen spaces and volunteers to create healthy, tasty three-course meals for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation. [1]

FoodCycle operates from London, England but has operations throughout the United Kingdom (see list of operations below).

History

In September 2008, Canadian Kelvin Cheung founded FoodCycle. He decided to start the organisation after hearing about the US on-campus student service program, Campus Kitchen, where students use on-campus kitchen space and donated food from their cafeterias to prepare nourishing meals for their communities. FoodCycle’s pilot hubs were at the Imperial College London and the London School of Economics but are . In October 2010, the first Community Café at Stroud Green, Haringey, London, called Station House was opened.[2]

Philosophy

FoodCycle’s mission is to combine volunteers, surplus food and a spare kitchen spaces to create nutritious meals and positive social change in the community.[3]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rosie Birkett, FoodCycle: Dishing up a wastey treat, The Metro, 22 November 2010
  2. ↑ Emma Youle, Community Cafe serves up something different, Ham & High, 25 Oct. 2010
  3. ↑ Sophie Morris, Join the Waste Watchers, The London Evening Standard, 6 December 2010 ,
  4. ↑ Andrew Holt, Charity Times award winners announced, 3 March 2010
  5. ↑ Jessica Odubayo, Food charity wins award, Tower Hamlets 1 November 2010
  6. ↑ FoodCycle wins Prime Minister's Big Society Award, 11 January 2011

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