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• FoodCycle x Tastesmiths

  

   

  At Tastesmiths HQ, we believe that food is the best thing to bring people and communities together. Whether it’s inviting your friends round, trying something new for the first time, or sharing your favourite dish with loved ones, food has the unique ability to break down all barriers and differences.

  Did you know:

  • Since the Covid-19 lockdown, 41% of UK adults report feeling lonelier and one third of UK adults are concerned that their loneliness will get worse (Source: British Red Cross).
  • In June 2023, 17.0% of households in the UK were ‘food insecure’ (ate less or went a day without eating because they couldn’t access or afford food), up from 8.8% in January 2022 and 7.4% in January 2021 (Source: Food Foundation).
  • 9.5 million tonnes of food is wasted in the UK, of which households contribute 70% (Source: WRAP).

  Foodcycle’s vision is to make food poverty, loneliness and food waste a thing of the past for every community. They connect communities and reduce loneliness and food poverty by working with thousands of volunteers and surplus food to help everyone who needs them. By creating welcoming spaces for people from all walks of life to meet, eat and have conversations, and by offering a weekly telephone Check-in and Chat, FoodCycle is supporting people’s health and mental wellbeing.

  We’re proud to be collaborating with FoodCycle to promote the great work that they do, and encourage more people to volunteer at a FoodCycle centre near them. Watch this space for more activities we’ll be working on!

  

  For more information about FoodCycle, please visit them at https://foodcycle.org.uk/