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…
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…