We would like to create a zero food waste base in Edinburgh that we could use as a base for sorting and distributing the foid from, this would also allow us to recruit more volunteers, training them up as collectors and sorters, and allow us to collect surplus food from more stores throughout the city, currently we are only able to cover a small geographic area in west Edinburgh but have had enquiries from all across the EH postcodes.
The bulk of our food rescuing and distributing is done in the evening and early mornings so we would like the base to be used as an educational resource throughout the day, inviting people to come and learn about food waste, run classes for local groups, potentially cooking classes if our premises allow, where attendees can learn how to make meals from scratch, improving health and saving waste; and also provide a save and non judgemental space for those looking to collect free food.
we would also like to train volunteers to go and speak at school and community groups to present to them about food waste and open up the larger conversation, change attitudes and perceptions. This is something that we have already done on a small scale, presenting at assemblies ing small groups to make simple meal items using surplus food at health week and we would love to expand this program.
Location: Primarily West Edinburgh, covering from hermiston Gait, through to Haymarket, but currently also covering some venues in portobello, Straiton and city centre
Proposed on behalf of: We are a local charity called Tummies Not Trash, our main core of work is to rescue safe to eat but short life food items from being saved from being sent to landfill. Supermarkets and local food outlets that would otherwise be thrown away due to short shelf life, damaged packaging or being "off season", we then distribute this food to local organisations so that it can be cooked up at lunch clubs, help local families and, be saved from being sent to landfill.at present we work with a number of early years centres, primary schools, secondary school breakfast clubs, church lunch groups, dementia projects, warm spaces, a community centre, community association and a library.
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