Who We Are
Blackpool Food Bank is a distributor of food to over 100 organisations in the Boroughs of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre, We rescue and repurpose surplus food and supply more than 60,000 meals each month to families struggling to make ends meet.
Our mobile food clubs give access to nutritious and affordable food taken into the heart of communities starved of money, food and resources. This low cost weekly shop provides essential produce for family eating – fresh fruit and veg, fridge favourites and cupboard staples. We work with over 100 hubs across England and redistribute over 350,000 meals ever week.
City Harvest is London's leading food rescue charity. We rescue nutritious, surplus food from businesses and redistributes over 1.2 million meals per month to over 375 charity partners who feed those unable to afford or access meals. By providing a reliable lifeline and eliminating the cost of food for its charity partners, City Harvest enables them to stretch their budgets to offer other vital services. Our network stretches across the UK, through Xcess we ensure that no food goes to waste, sharing with our partners large donations, we believe it is our responsibility to help and support charities with similar objectives to ourselves.
Eggcup, Lancaster: Eggcup runs an affordable food scheme for its membership through its Community Food Outlets. It also partners with a local HE college to create frozen ready meals for vulnerable people across the community.
Food Cycle: Works to reduce food poverty and loneliness by turning surplus food in to nutritious community meals, all over the country.
Food Works, Sheffield: Food Works repurposes surplus food into meals and grocery boxes to make sustainable food accessible to all in Sheffield.
HIS Church: HIS Church is an emergency goods redistribution charity, focused on providing food and supplies to those who need it most. Before the pandemic, it distributed on average just over 50,000 meals a week. It is currently distributing 200,000 across a network of 15,000 charities and the demand is growing.
Open Kitchen MCR: Manchester’s leading conscious caterer using its profits to create nutritious healthy meals for individuals and families in crisis, currently delivering over 1,300 meals a week.
UK Harvest: UK Harvest delivers education programmes alongside its food redistribution operations across the south coast of England and London.
Our network members are extremely important and help us accomplish our goals.
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“Our commitment to rescuing quality surplus food to help people and planet is greater than ever. In these challenging times, more and more people are unable to nourish themselves and their families. As well as the challenges presented by the pandemic, climate change marches on, with food waste a major contributor. This deeply experienced group of organisations is coming together to ensure that all businesses can safely and reliably redistribute all surplus food.”
Laura Winningham, CEO, City Harvest