FoodCycle is a charity established in 2009, with the aim of tackling food poverty and social isolation using donated surplus food. Briefly, FoodCycle utilises suitable kitchens in which our volunteers cook the fresh surplus food donated to us, producing healthy hot vegetarian meals for anyone who would like one. The meals are completely free and anyone can just turn up; typically our guests include low income families, homeless people, isolated older people, and people struggling to ‘make ends meet’.  Ordinarily, people would arrive to enjoy a free communal 3 course meal – so addressing loneliness as well as hunger - and we will be returning to that as soon as we are all permitted to do so (we’re hoping for a return to this model in July). Throughout the pandemic though FoodCycle has been operating ‘Cook and Collect’ services, which involves our guests coming along to collect their safely packaged hot meals (usually there’s a little extra food for people to take away too).

FoodCycle stringently adheres to all COVID-safe policies of course, including providing PPE for all volunteers and guests and observing social distancing.

Please contact Pamela Walker at Foodcyle with any comments or queries.