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Our Waste Not Boxes have been replaced by our Fruit and Veg boxes and bags, which you can buy directly at the cafe on Saturdays or online on Tuesdays for a Thursday collection.
Our Fruit and Veg box is a crate full of good food, intercepted by us, otherwise wasted. It will always include a selection of fresh fruit and vegetables with the odd additional treat. We also offer a bag with similar produce, but a smaller amount, perfect for individuals or small households.
Local shops, cafes, markets, restaurants, allotments, other charities, wholesalers, food photographers, events, small businesses…. wherever we can rescue it, wherever it really would otherwise have gone to waste.
We’re a community interest company, which means that the money we make all goes back into running the project.
We pay rent, we buy petrol, we run our electric van, we buy equipment, we pay our staff to make it all happen, and lots of other costs. Any extra money we get will go towards serving more people and saving more food.
We try to earn enough through projects like Waste Not Boxes to fund our core work, but we still need to fundraise and receive grant funding for new projects such as our education projects.
In the North East alone over 800,000 tonnes of food waste is generated every year. That’s over a third of food produced for us to eat. We think that’s rubbish and we hope you agree.
We don’t see this food as ‘waste’, we see beautiful and valuable food, and we see the energy, time, fuel, water and other resources that have gone into making it, packaging it and getting it to our supermarket shelves. Join us in giving it value and stopping this waste of resources.
Our Fruit and Veg box is a crate full of good food, intercepted by us, otherwise wasted. It will always include a selection of fresh fruit and vegetables with the odd additional treat. We also offer a bag with similar produce, but a smaller amount.
Boxes or bags cost between £5 and £15, all proceeds go directly to paying for our costs of collecting and sorting food and making it available to those who are struggling, through partnerships with other charities and through our PAYF community shop.
They are available on Saturday mornings ‘first come, first served’ from the cafe at 10.30am, or by ordering online on Tuesdays for collection from Durham locations on Thursdays between 2-4pm. Click the link below to view our online shop:
