Replenish

New deliveries

robinaitken — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:28:04 +0000

The daily deliveries of food are expanding all the time. We have taken on two new charity projects in the past couple of weeks. One is Stepping Stones in East Oxford and the other is Emmaus on the Cowley Road. Both charities will now receive twice weekly deliveries of bread and baked goods. We are receiving regular offers of help from potential volunteers some of whom have already been out with us, but we still need more drivers. Meanwhile we are gearing up for the Christmas rush: we can expect more food from the supermarkets – and more demand from our customers!

re-plenish on TV!

chinchliffe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:18:07 +0000

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 launched!

chinchliffe — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:44:01 +0000

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.