Today Junior Doctors at Sheffield Children’s Hospital received freshly prepared frozen meals and fruit from Food Works Sheffield. Many of the junior doctors will be working anti-social shifts away from their families over the festive period and this will ensure they have access to nutritious meals at a busy time Read more…
Food Works, a social enterprise building fair and sustainable food for Sheffield, has teamed up with South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA) to provide festive meals for 150 customers. Every year SYHA ensures their customers have food, gifts and a friendly chat at Christmas. For the first time, Food Works are Read more…
Just Meals from Food Works are environmentally friendly meals that give more back to the planet than they take. When you eat a Just Meal you’re being kind to the climate in several ways: Each meal is cooked fresh using surplus and locally grown ingredients The container is 100% compostable Read more…
We’d like to say an absolutely MASSIVE thank you to everyone who has supported the Food Works 2021 Grow a Row scheme. We were able to repurpose over 2.5 TONNES of surplus fruit and vegetables – enough to make 5108 meals! We had the amazing collective support of 4 fantastic Read more…
We’re delighted to let you know that we are moving away from single use plastics. Every meal will soon be delivered in a fully biodegradable container! We’ve chosen these containers because they: Align with our values as an environmental and sustainability focused organisation Are leak proof, freezable, microwave and oven Read more…
As part of National Allotment Week we spoke to Rosie from Woodseats Allotments in Sheffield to find out how their ‘Grow-a-Row’ scheme started and evolved during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read on to find out more… Woodseats Allotments acquired a Community Allotment Plot and it served as a space for Allotment Read more…
Benefits of local growers donating produce So what’s all the fuss about? Why are allotments so important to Food Works, and Food Works so important to allotments? Food Works is an outlet for the surplus food grown by allotmenteers As growers we often find ourselves with a glut of veg Read more…
It’s National Allotment Week and we wanted to take the opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to all the allotmenteers and growers who are already involved in our Grow a Row and Repurpose Your Surplus schemes. This year the theme for National Allotment Week is Plotting for the Future Read more…
Food Works are offering free meals to children during the summer holidays from Monday 26th July until Friday 27th August. Pick up a meal for a child at Food Works Handsworth, Food Works Sharrow or one of our partner hubs. You can collect a free meal per child, per day. Read more…
Free ‘not at school’ meals this half term from Food Works Sheffield From Monday 31st May until Friday 4th June, Food Works are offering free ‘not at school’ meals to children during the half term break. Simply come to Food Works Handsworth, Food Works Sharrow or one of our partner Read more…