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Connection and community at the Food Works warehouse
Meet Bita, a warehouse volunteer who has been with us since 2021. She writes
about the community she has forged here.
Meet Bita, a warehouse volunteer who has been with us since 2021. She writes
about the community she has forged here.
To celebrate the start of spring we are opening up slots for new patron box customers to collect from Handsworth! Following on from the successful launch of our new nature-friendly patron boxes at our two cafes, we are excited to announce we will now be rolling out this new version Read more…
Exciting Changes to Just Meals: More Vegan Options, Clearer Labels At Food Works, we’re always evolving to provide fair, sustainable, and affordable food for everyone in Sheffield. As part of this mission, our Just Meals range is changing to offer more choice for vegan customers while making our labelling system Read more…
After six months of operations, the Food Works cafe at Longley Four Greens Community Centre will be concluding its pilot phase at the end of December. It has been brilliant to connect with the volunteers and community members who crossed our path in this time, some of whom you can Read more…
We all know about the horrors of Black Friday – mobs of shoppers, endless spam and gluing ourselves to our phones to get that one sweet deal. Now people are talking about the hidden environmental cost too. It’s estimated that online shopping on Black Friday alone could result in 429,000 Read more…
The weekly surplus food boxes supplied by Food Works to households all across Sheffield are getting nature-friendly makeover this month. Food Works patron boxes will help us build a new, better food system for Sheffield – and patrons will get a taste of the locally-grown, nature-friendly food that they are Read more…
A groundbreaking new collaboration with the people of Sheffield will see nature-friendly food produced in the heart of a peoples’ park from next spring. Food Works’ cafe menus and Just Meals ready meals at sites across the city will soon feature nature-friendly fruit, veg and herbs grown in Graves Park’s Read more…
Food is rising up everyone’s agenda. Now there’s a new way to get the inside track and come together to make change in Sheffield. Sign up now, or read on. We’re all feeling the pinch at the till, and living through the kinds of shortages that didn’t exist ten years Read more…
It’s the holidays! Here’s how you can feed your kids with Food Works – and pay it forward for other families too.
On Monday the government has published it’s long awaited food strategy, in response to the 2 part independent review by Henry Dimbleby. The dominant impression from this strategy, is that it is written by a government looking to abdicate responsibility for our food system. In our view, it is not Read more…