Other organisations fighting food waste
- FoodCycle – Durham has a hub that meets in Sanctuary 21, Durham on Wednesdays and Cornerstones Centre, Chester-le-Street, on Saturdays
- Magic Hat Cafe Newcastle
- The Real Junk Food Project Brighton
- Food Works Sheffield
- The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham
- Open Kitchen Manchester
- Feedback – an organisation that runs some excellent and effective campaigns and projects, like Toast Ale, The Pig Idea and The Gleaning Network
Videos
- Who and what is REfUSE? 2016
- Crowdfund plea December 2016
- An evening with REfUSE: June Project 2017
- REfUSE: A Food Journey – award winning film produced by Nick Whitworth 2018
REfUSE – A food Journey from Nick Whitworth on Vimeo.
News appearances
- Revd Kate Bottley on BBC Radio 2 ‘Pause For Thought’ talking about her visit to REfUSE Cafe
- BBC Look North on our 2020 Crowdfund campaign
- Delivering meals during lockdown: funded by CDCF
- REfUSE Wins in three categories including an Outstanding Award at Durham Environment Awards
- Why Christmas is a very busy time for the North East’s warriors against food waste: The Chronicle
- Social Impact study by Newcastle University : more than a cafe
- We were one of 8 UK organisations to receive funding from WRAP to increase our food redistribution
- Cafe announcement and empty-building launch in The Chronicle
- Where do all the pumpkins go? Feeding the 5000 in The Chronicle
- Stolen van found: The Chronicle (unfortunately this article doesn’t say that when we finally got it back from the police depot, we found it was irreparably damaged and had to be scrapped. You win some, you lose some.)
- Little excerpt about Nikki in The Times
- Fuel For Schools on BBC Look North
- Fuel For Schools in The Chronicle
- Festival of Thrift on BBC Breakfast (national)
- Crowdfund success in Northern Echo and Advertiser
- Launch June 2015 in Northern Echo – and Chronicle
- Food Waste Wedding May 2016 on BBC national News
- Bride-to-be Kim on her wedding, the first in the North East to be catered using only food that would otherwise be wasted:
- Nikki on national BBC radio:
- Metro Radio
- and The Sun?!? (We definitely did not give them our stuff… #dontbuythesun)
- Nikki on the Iceland bin-raiding episode, 2017:
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