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Last 2 days of Festive #foodshare Thurs 2nd and Fri 3rd Jan

Jan 1, 2020
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Last 2 days of Festive #foodshare Thurs 2nd and Fri 3rd Jan

Happy New Year! Festive #foodshare continues. Please keep coming! A huge thank you to the hundreds of people who have helped stop good food going to waste these last few days. We've never had so much food to share - we've had more than 5 tonnes in 4 days - nearly as much as we normally get in a month. A food system that has so much waste built in is wrong and massively damaging for the environment, but HUGE thanks to the hard working staff in all our donating stores, all t

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Christmas Community Meals with Osnosh

Dec 19, 2019
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Christmas Community Meals with Osnosh

There are going to be two community meals this month to use up Christmas food surplus and bring people together over the festive period. Everyone is welcome to come along to the two course meals. They will be served at 12:30pm, made by Osnosh and a team of brilliant volunteers. The meal will be made from surplus food collected by the volunteers that morning. So it will be a surprise as to what is cooked - but it's guaranteed to be delicious! They will be taking place at Shrew

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Christmas Foodshare 2019

Dec 12, 2019
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Christmas Foodshare 2019

Shrewsbury Food Hub is in partnership with four churches to share food over the Christmas Holidays. Everyone is welcome at the #foodshare tables, so please come along. In the school holidays, a lot of our regular groups are closed, so we need a extra help from everybody to get this good food into tummies! We can never predict how much or what type of food we will get but we generally expect 10-20 trays of bread, fruit and veg to share. It's best to pop in before you shop as t

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Big Give Big School Breakfast Campaign

Nov 29, 2019
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Big Give Big School Breakfast Campaign

Shrewsbury Food Hub is launching its Big School Breakfast Campaign to give local children a better breakfast. For the next seven days, every pound donated to the campaign through the Big Give website will be doubled. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DONATE Katy Anderson, the Food Hub’s manager explains “We support 10 schools in Shrewsbury with deliveries of surplus food, meaning they can give kids free toast and a healthy snack. However, some schools are reporting that children are comin

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October Half Term 19 #Foodshare Tables

Oct 17, 2019
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October Half Term 19 #Foodshare Tables

Please help us get good food eaten at #foodshare tables in October Half Term. Everyone is welcome. We expect to have 10 - 20 trays of bread, fruit and veg to share each day. It’s run on a pay-as-you-feel basis. Pop in before you shop as there's bound to be something useful. Please share these times and locations for the week 28th October – 1st November: Riversway Elim Church at Lancaster Rd, Harlescott, Shrewsbury SY1 3LE, 9:30am to 12pm on Tuesday 29th, Wednesday 30th and

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Coming together over food at Age UK

Oct 4, 2019
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Coming together over food at Age UK

We support 7 Age UK Day Centres across the town with surplus food, so we went to meet Lindsey Kelley, the organiser for the Louise House Day Centre to find out more. Age UK provide a network of Day centres across Shrewsbury, where people come together for friendship and a day out. Transport is provided so no-one misses out. Lindsey and her volunteer team plan the activities, such as cards and games, crafts, guest speakers, gentle exercise, music or quizzes. Occasionally they

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Upcoming Brewery Bash Fundraiser

Oct 2, 2019
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Upcoming Brewery Bash Fundraiser

Please join us for a fantastic evening at Salopian Brewery in Hadnall on Saturday 26th October, 7-10pm to raise funds for Shrewsbury Food Hub. We're taking over the Brewery bar for one night only. We'll have the best beer in the world*, delicious food, mellow tunes from the Magenta Dogwings and raffle. Entry, supper and your first drink for just £20. All proceeds go towards the Shrewsbury Food Hub's fight against food waste. For more info and to get tickets: https://www.event

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£10,000 Awards for all funding

Sep 5, 2019
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£10,000 Awards for all funding

We’re delighted to announce that Shrewsbury Food Hub has been given £10,000 by Awards for All. This grant will allow us to invest in more comprehensive training, an on-line rota system and to seek out more nutritious food for our community. Since we started three years ago, we have doubled in size every year. We now have 75 volunteer drivers and we collected 64 tonnes of food last year and we need to invest in our organisational systems. We already train our volunteers in f

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#Foodshare Summer 2019

Jul 25, 2019
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#Foodshare Summer 2019

Shrewsbury Food Hub is in collaboration with four churches across town to share surplus food over the summer holidays. Everyone is welcome at the #foodshare tables, so please come along. In the school holidays, a lot of our regular groups are closed, so we need a extra help from everybody to get this good food into tummies! We can never predict how much or what type of food we will get but we generally expect 10-20 trays of bread, fruit and veg to share. It's best to pop in b

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Eat to the Beat - where music meets food!

Jun 14, 2019
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Eat to the Beat - where music meets food!

We're holding a summer fundraiser - a fantastic night of music and food delights at Flaxivity, Shrewsbury. Please join us on Friday 9th August from 7-12pm! Book your ticket here or contact us to buy your ticket direct. Executive Chef Chris Burt and Shropshire lad and Kadai king Adam Purnell, will be blending influences from Chris's book "Straight outta Africa" and Adam’s Ninja BBQ skills, to create a street food feast using ingredients donated to the Shrewsbury Food Hub.

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Cooking up community meals for Shrewsbury

Jun 12, 2019
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Cooking up community meals for Shrewsbury

Calling all cooks and food-lovers! Do you like the idea of bringing people together over a shared meal? Or getting creative with surplus food from the supermarkets? These are just some of the ideas that will be discussed at a free workshop hosted by Shrewsbury Food Hub at 7pm on 2nd July at University Centre Shrewsbury to explore how volunteers could get a pop-up community meal or cooking club going in our town. Katy Anderson, Shrewsbury Food Hub said, “The amount of food we

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#Foodshare over half term

May 24, 2019
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#Foodshare over half term

Shrewsbury Food Hub has teamed up with four churches to share surplus food over half term. Everyone is welcome at the #foodshare tables across the town. Katy Anderson, project manager explained, “In the school holidays, lots of our regular groups are closed , so we really everyone’s help to give this good food a home. We expect to have 10 - 20 trays of bread, fruit and veg to share. We can never be sure how much food we’ll get, but please pop in before you shop as there’

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Share your spare garden produce

May 8, 2019
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Share your spare garden produce

Do you grow your own fruit and veg? Could you help get us more fruit and veg by sharing an extra you have with the Hub? Please get in touch if you'd like to find out more or come to our meeting on Tuesday 4th June at University Centre Shrewsbury at 7pm. Sutton Lane and Greenfields Allotments already share their spare produce with us. They donate any spare fruit and veg on a Sunday evening. Someone drops it off at a "drop off point" where its taken up to the Hub depot to

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#Foodshare tables for Easter Holidays

Apr 14, 2019
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#Foodshare tables for Easter Holidays

Please help us get good food eaten at #foodshare tables over Easter! Everyone is welcome. Food is available on a Pay As You Feel basis, for an optional donation of a penny up! We need you to help us eat up this good food. Please bring a bag. We collect leftover food from the supermarkets which is still good to eat, and we have extra food in the holidays as many of our groups are closed. We never know what we are going to get, so please pop in before you shop. There w

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Shropshire Larder website launched to help people in food poverty

Apr 10, 2019
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Shropshire Larder website launched to help people in food poverty

A new website has been launched to help people in Shropshire who are struggling to afford a healthy diet. The Shropshire Larder website brings together local information on how to eat well on a budget, how to access money advice, and the location of food banks and other community food projects around the county. Research carried out by Sheffield Hallam University suggests that up to 27,000 families in Shropshire will be affected by the welfare reforms. Food banks across the c

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When life gives you stale bread..make pudding!

Feb 21, 2019
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When life gives you stale bread..make pudding!

Volunteers Jean and Rachael Breakell have been exploring some delicious ways to use up left over bread. Bread is one of the foods we waste most. At last count, an astounding 34% of our total bread production was wasted, so out of every 10 fields of wheat we grow, 3 of them are grown just to be thrown away. More than half of this happens in our own homes, so everything we can do to avoid waste helps....especially if it's delicious! Jean's been experimenting with bread pudd

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Help us win £5,000 to keep rescuing food!

Feb 19, 2019
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Help us win £5,000 to keep rescuing food!

Please help us win some funding! If you can help us collect lots and lots of the special tokens in the Shropshire Star we could win up to £5,000 to get more nutritious food for our community! Tokens are published from Wednesday, February 27th until April 6th. Please down load a poster here. Please help us collect tokens so we can be in with the chance of winning up to £5000 - which will help us towards the essential costs of this volunteer powered service. In 2018 our

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#Foodshare tables at half term

Feb 17, 2019
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#Foodshare tables at half term

Please help us get good food eaten at #foodshare tables over half term! Everyone is welcome. Food is available on a Pay As You Feel basis, for an optional donation of a penny up! We need you to help us eat up this good food. Please bring a bag. Monday 18th Feb 9 - 11am Church of the Holy Spirit, at 49 Meadow Farm Drive, Shrewsbury SY1 4NG Tuesday 19th, Weds 20th, Thurs 21st Feb Riversway Elim Church at Lancaster Rd, Harlescott, Shrewsbury SY1 3LE 9am - 4pm Friday

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We're hiring! Could you be our new co-ordinator?

Feb 7, 2019
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We're hiring! Could you be our new co-ordinator?

Are you looking for a job which makes a real difference for the environment and your community? As co-ordinator of the Shrewsbury Food Hub you’ll support our wonderful volunteer team to reduce food waste and nourish our community with good surplus food. · One year contract, renewable,22.5 hours per week · Living wage £9 per hour, plus benefits. Full details here We are looking a friendly, well-organised person manage our day-to-day operations. You'll make sur

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Ready Steady Cook at Belvidere Good Food Club

Jan 30, 2019
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Ready Steady Cook at Belvidere Good Food Club

Every week Hannah from Belvidere Good Food Club collects her Food Hub Box of food for her cooking club for young people. She is brilliant at ready steady cooking with the random food we give her. Here's what she made on the day we gave her cauliflower, pineapple and some tortillas - delicious! Spicy cauliflower and pineapple wraps 1 cauliflower 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon garam masala 1 pineapple Chopped tomatoes or a jar of salsa 1 small red/white onion A smal

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If you are in financial crisis and need food parcels please contact Shrewsbury Food Bank on 0742 174 5857