Have you asked your friends, neighbours, relatives who can get out of the house to buy you food? Are you able to afford food but are in…… Read more “What to do if you need food”

The REfUSE staff and volunteers are all mourning the closure of our cafe and cancellation of catering events: who would have thought we’d ever miss washing up!…… Read more “COVID-19 Response: update 31st March”

Following the advice given by the Government on Monday 16th March, discussion with health care professionals we know and other local organisations, we have made the difficult…… Read more “COVID-19 Update 19th March”

Our Susie has been with us right from the early days of REfUSE, in various different roles. We have lost count of the number of times we’ve…… Read more “We’re hiring – again!”

Catering Manager Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a dynamic social enterprise with a strong social mission? Do you believe the scale of food…… Read more “We’re hiring!”

There are a few different figures around, and there has never a full study on it, but Unilever/WRAP estimate that in 2014, 2 million Christmas dinners were wasted across the United…… Read more “Christmas is coming…”

We’re aiming to feed up to 80 people on Christmas Day, a very special dinner made from crazy amounts of surplus food supermarkets throw away on Christmas…… Read more “Christmas Day: can you help?”

Lisa arrived at the cafe and offered to ‘Pay As You Feel’ for her tea and cake with her writing skills: here is a guest blog on…… Read more “Guest blog: a warm welcome at REfUSE”

For August bank holiday weekend, some of team REfUSE headed to Greenbelt Fesitval. Our team cooked (we think) a couple of thousand meals to festival goers in…… Read more “Poetry from Greenbelt Festival”

Recently we have been considering how our little cafe has contributed to Sustainable Development and, using the UN’s SDGs as a framework, we have put together this summary…… Read more “Our Impact”