Delicious Magazine have teamed up with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) to find the People’s Favourite Restaurant 2018 – the go-to place for food that not only tastes good but does good too.

How you can get involved

Help find this year’s People’s Favourite and you could win a fabulous mini-break at Les Orangeries, an idyllic boutique hotel in rural Western France. The winners will travel there Business Premier style, courtesy of Eurostar.

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/stories/help-us-find-the-peoples-favourite-restaurant-2018-and-you-could-win-a-french-mini-break/

Fill in the application form on the website (follow the above link) by 30 June 2018, in no more than 150 words, how The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham make meals that really matter.

Perhaps you would like to tell them about our sustainability credentials; our #feedbelliesnotbins ethos – how our food would have ended up in landfill if The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham hadn’t rescued it?

Do you want to tell them about how well we feed people; about how we offer a range of appetising, delicious, nutritious options, usually with a high veg content and more often than not, a vegan option?

Maybe you want to focus on how The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham sits at the heart of the community – supporting local people through our PayAsYouFeel model, allowing anyone who would like to, to eat with us for the price of their time, skills or cash, at venues all over Birmingham?

Or do you have a personal story to tell about how The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham has helped you? Are you a volunteer who has gone onto paid employment after working with us, maybe?

After nominations close, on 30 June 2018, the panel of judges, including delicious. editor Karen Barnes and Mike Palmer of Lucky Beach, will whittle the entries down to a shortlist which we’ll publish in the August 2018 issue of delicious. You’ll then have until 31 August 2018 to vote for the People’s Favourite Restaurant. The winner will be revealed in October 2018 and presented at the SRA’s Food Made Good Awards on 1 October 2018.

For your chance to win, please fill in the competition form here https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/stories/help-us-find-the-peoples-favourite-restaurant-2018-and-you-could-win-a-french-mini-break/.

Good Luck!

 

Hi everybunny!

It’s hard to egg-nore that Easter is fast approaching!

This is just to let you all know that as usual the TRJFP Brum venues will be closed for the Bank Holidays and Volunteers will be taking a well-earned rest.

• Ladywood Café will be closed on Friday 30th March (Good Friday), and
• Kings Heath Café will be closed on Monday 2nd April (Easter Monday)

There will be no Freegan Box collections on Good Friday (30th March)

Things will be back to normal from Wednesday 4th April.

We hop you have a cracking time.

Best wishes

Amber & the TRJFP Brum team

Hi everyone,

Lots of things to tell you about, it’s been a busy few weeks at TRJFP Brum!

We were visited by Charlotte Watkivs from A Zero Waste Life, who wrote a lovely blog post about us. You can read it here.

We rolled out our new induction training programme for volunteers. Thank you to everyone who gave up 2 hours of their Saturday to join us, and thanks to a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to make it happen. More dates coming soon, hopefully at a venue and time suitable for you! If you’d like to get involved – have a look here for more information about the sorts of things we need help with and how you can volunteer!

We also need to say big thanks to Burnetts Manufacturing of Northampton. They very generously donated some heavy duty shelving which we so desperately needed in our warehouse. As you can see, thanks to the hard work of our volunteers, it’s in place and we’ve already started putting it into use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burnett’s donation won’t just benefit The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham! In turn, we’re donating the surplus shelving we can’t use to Birmingham Play Care Network (BPCN) for use in their Scrapstore!

Birmingham Play Care Network are a charity with very similar aims to The Real Junk Food Project. They collect and sort clean business waste and other materials or ‘scrap’ donated by individuals and companies for redistribution to individuals and organisations supporting play and creativity. You can find out more about their work here.

Lastly, if you’re interested in statistics, here’s the new relaunched TRJFPBrum newsletter, with information about how much food our amazing volunters rescued in 2017, and how we used it to #feedbelliesnotbins!

2018-02 TRJFPBrum Digest.compressed

That’s all for now, folks, keep up the good work!

Amber