Following yesterday’s successful press launch of re-plenish, we featured on both the early and late evening BBC and Meridian news. Initial coverage in the press includes the BBC website and the Oxford Mail. A big thank you to Robin, Steve and David for making this happen.
re-plenish on TV!
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
re-plenish launched!
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Every year retailers in Britain waste 1.6m tones of food. This in a country where 5% of adults cannot afford fresh fruit daily and one in twenty mothers go without food to meet the needs of their children. Most of this food goes to landfill, so, not only is perfectly good food being wasted, it’s damaging the environment too. Doesn’t make sense, does it?
We wanted to put a stop to this in our local area, so we (a group of Oxfordshire people) set up a new charity, ‘re-plenish’, the Oxford food bank.
Since our launch in July, we’ve set up a daily collection of food from supermarkets. We then distribute this food to projects in the city, helping to provide over 1,000 meals per week to people who really need them.
re-plenish is run by volunteers and we’re reliant on local people and local businesses for support, so if you can help, we’d love to have you on board.
Keep an eye on our blog and find out how we’re getting on.
Every year retailers in Britain waste 1.6m tones of food. This in a country where 5% of adults cannot afford fresh fruit daily and one in twenty mothers go without food to meet the needs of their children. Most of this food goes to landfill, so, not only is perfectly good food being wasted, it’s damaging the environment too. Doesn’t make sense, does it?
We wanted to put a stop to this in our local area, so we (a group of Oxfordshire people) set up a new charity, ‘re-plenish’, the Oxford food bank.
Since our launch in July, we’ve set up a daily collection of food from supermarkets. We then distribute this food to projects in the city, helping to provide over 1,000 meals per week to people who really need them.
re-plenish is run by volunteers and we’re reliant on local people and local businesses for support, so if you can help, we’d love to have you on board.
Keep an eye on our blog and find out how we’re getting on.
