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Additional information
We are committed to addressing food waste and treating everyone with compassion, dignity and respect while appreciating diverse cultures and values. We use food surplus as our main source of ingredients. The Kindness Menu and the Freezer of Love in our cafe means anyone can eat free of charge without judgement. Our workshops provide homeless, vulnerably housed people and families with vital skills to improve their health and wellbeing, whilst being a pathway to volunteering and work-based placements. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 we started the Ox4 Food Crew. The OX4 Partnership is now an alliance of 9 local grassroots organisations working towards a shared mission that everyone in OX4 has enough food, is well nourished and can thrive. By working with like-minded partners we can tackle food inequality in Oxford more effectively. We are well placed in our community to respond to local need quickly and effectively. We have provided thousands of free meals and food parcels, with the support of organisations such as Samworth Foundation, Oxford Food Hub, National Lottery, Oxfordshire Community Foundation and Oxford City Council as well as individual donors. Please see our CIC Report on page 7 for more information on our activities & impact. Waste2Taste originally registered as a company 5 July 2017 and registered as a CIC on 21 May 2021.
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
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Our full impact report is available on our website: https://www.waste2taste.co.uk/about Waste2Taste’s activities provide benefit to the local community, including homeless, elderly, vulnerably housed, and any other people experiencing food inequality. This includes people local to OX4, but also the wider Oxford community. Through the Community Cafe we have created a hub of support where people feel a sense of ownership and investment in their local area. We work in OX4 specifically to tackle both the immediate needs of critical food poverty in our area, as well as the more systemic food injustices. We believe that local organisations working collaboratively is the most informed, efficient and thorough way to address both of these aims. Our focus is on healthy, affordable and accessible food. Since 2020 Waste2Taste as part of the OX4 Partnership have cooked and delivered over 35,000 free meals. Referrals for these come primarily from the local authority. In the 23-24 financial year we delivered 3 ten-week workshops to 30 community members in order to build confidence with food, nutrition and cooking in a professional setting. Referrals come from partner agencies and self-referrals. Since January 2023, we have also delivered monthly community meals, open to all as an opportunity to build community connections. We have a Kindness Menu and a Freezer of Love where users may ‘pay as you feel’ for healthy food cooked in-house. We delivered 530 meals from the Freezer of Love and 447 via the Kindness menu. We offer volunteer placements, some of these are for those suffering from isolation, poor mental health and joblessness, and offer a pathway to employment opportunities. Waste2Taste has saved 7 tonnes of surplus ingredients from going in landfill in the 23-24 financial year. Velocity Couriers provided our low carbon deliveries, these saved 37.76Kg of Co2e per month for an average of 136miles vs car delivery. In May 2023, we moved premises to Shotover View. Shotover view is an Extra Care Housing premises in Oxford with a recently built catering kitchen and restaurant space. Waste2Taste offers low-cost meals to residents (763 in yr), in addition to welcoming the public. We also deliver specialized community meals to the residents as well, bringing them together to reduce isolation. We offer chair exercise classes to the local community, open to everyone.
Waste2Taste stakeholders comprise general users of our Community Cafe and catering service, attendees of our Health & Wellbeing Workshops, users of our volunteer and training programme, the Oxford Community, residents of Shotover View, and/or users who benefit from free or low-cost food within the cafe setting. We have had consultations with Shotover residents to find out how we can support them to be less isolated within their community. This included two meals with over 25 residents each in a complex with 54 units. Some of the residents were unable to attend as they have severe mobility issues so we are looking at ways to reach them. We support around 25 volunteers, and are in ongoing consultation with the volunteers. Volunteers are our lifeline for delivering the free meals as we no longer have funding for free meals, and they report back that volunteering with Waste2Taste brings significant personal benefits. In partnership with Healthwatch, Oxford Community Action and Oxford Mutual Aid, Waste2Taste participated in research about food poverty in Oxford, collecting questionnaires from recipients of free meals. The research can be seen on oxfordcommunityaction.org/research
The aggregate amount of emoluments paid to or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £55,960.30. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
7 November 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Marissa Vanderzee
Status: Director