Barfoots support UKHarvest in-school food hubs

Thanks to the generous donation from the King Charles III Charitable Fund, UKHarvest have created and launched a brand-new initiative called Grub Club. Through Grub Club, local school students will run their own food donation hubs once a week, in school, helping to bring their community together through food.

Grub Club will take place in 10 schools around the Chichester area, encouraging students to volunteer and provide food for up to 40 people per school. Pupils and their families can join the mission to end food waste by taking surplus food donated to UKHarvest by a range of food producers and distributors.

Barfoots are a key food donors to this project. The initiative will provide healthy nutritious food to households within the school community, and to offer information and support about healthy eating and cooking, supporting UKHarvest’s mission to Nourish our Nation through the rescue and redistribution of edible surplus food.

This comes at a time when Barfoots has also hit the 1 million meal donation milestone with UKHarvest. This equates to 420,000kgs of food, associated with 1592 tonnes of green house gasses that would have been wasted since our partnership began in 2017.

UKHarvest ensure that any surplus food we donate is redistributed to those that need it most in our community. Every item of food donated has reached thousands of households through innovative projects including Grub Club, and collaborations with housing associations such as VIVID. UKHarvest run and manage 16 community food hubs, a community kitchen in London, Nourish Hub, and donate to local and national charities such as Stop Domestic Abuse and YMCA.