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03/10/2023

Surplus Food Charity, Plan Zheroes : Looking for recipes for their new cookbook

Plan Zheroes are a surplus food charity connecting businesses with surplus food to nearby charities who can use it. This Autumn, Plan Zheroes will be making a new cookbook and they are inviting all who care about food-surplus to join them in this celebration. We spoke to one of their Ambassadors, Kirsten Frederickson, about the project.

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05/09/2023

Meet Cathy Benwell – Co-founder of A Good Thing: Connecting Less to Landfill and More to Good Causes

A Good Thing is a new not-for-profit online platform that connects charities right across the UK with businesses of all types that have things to give away. We spoke to co-founder Cathy Benwell about the platform’s mission to reduce waste and to encourage reuse – meaning less to landfill and more to a good cause. Discover why the organisation has its sights set on the food industry.

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22/08/2023

The Rise of Kitchen Gardens & the Women Who Run & Work in Them

Inspired by a great feature in the Observer Food Monthly, our co-founder Mex Ibrahim,  decided to take a look at some of the women who are running kitchen gardens so they can supply the freshest products possible to their restaurants, cafes and schools.

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11/08/2023

The Barbican’s Eat The Screen Season : Films to Feed Conversations About Food – Review

If you’re interested in food, and love movies, film and cinema you must go to The Barbican’s new Eat The Screen season before it closes on August 24 2023.  A hand-picked selection of short films, features and documentaries curated by Tamara Anderson, it is a fascinating season looking at important conversations around food sovereignty, meat consumption, farming, food waste, and the power of supermarkets.

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19/06/2019

What we got up to at our Sustainable Gastronomy Day event

We had a wonderful evening on 18th June 2019 chatting, networking and sharing our stories about sustainability. It was great to hear your views and pretty much everyone agreed that education was crucial for change and collaboration to power the message home to government and consumers.

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04/03/2019

Julie Prebble

Julie is Head of HOPerations at Toast Ale, an award-winning craft beer brewed with surplus fresh bread that would otherwise be wasted.

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27/02/2019

Anita Kerai

Presenter for Return to Kenya on Amazon Prime Video and author of cookbook Flavours of Kenya

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