The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham
#feedbelliesnotbins
On Saturday 26th May, the Old Rose and Crown Hotel is holding a Pay As You Feel Supper with proceeds going to support The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham
If you’d like a ticket, they’re £10, which includes a drink, entertainment, and a talk on food waste by one of our co-directors. You then Pay As You Feel for the meal. To book, just call The Rose & Crown on 0121 453 3502 or email book@oldroseandcrown.com
PDF Flier attached here: Old Rose and Crown PAYF Supper
Hello all!
We’ve had a great response to our nappy pant surplus. Lots of people have requested them by email (see details below for what we have and how to get some), but if you haven’t been in touch and would like some (or would like more!) we still have plenty left!
We also have quite a bit of baby milk (formula), if that’s something else you need, and baby wipes too (though not masses and masses of those).
The nappy pants/pull-ups, milk and wipes are at our Sharehouse in Winson Green.
They are sample packs of two Pampers Premium Active Fit Nappy Pants per pack. These are pretty pricey in the shops. We’re asking for donations of just £1 per 7 sample packs (14 nappies), with no restrictions (until they’re all gone!) on how many packs you can take.
We’ve already passed lots on to local charities, women’s shelters and hospitals, but we have plenty left for the general public, so please feel free to forward this information onto anyone this could help.
We only have size 4 (8-14kg) and size 5 (11-18kg) available, and we don’t anticipate getting any other sizes, so please check that this is the correct size for your needs.
The baby milk we have is lots of different ages, stages and brands, so please specify what you’re looking for and we’ll tell you if we have it.
For wipes we ask for a donation of £1 per 3 packs or £1 per 2 packs of Water Wipes.
If you’d like any nappies, milk or wipes, and are able to get to our Sharehouse: trjfpbrum.com/venues/sharehouse/ to collect, then please:
email trjfpbrum.collect@gmail.com
and we will get back to you.
Do you know any families who use nappy pants/pull-ups?
If so, they might be interested to hear that we’ve had a large donation of size 4 and size 5 Pampers Premium Active Fit Nappy Pants at our Sharehouse in Winson Green.
We’ve already passed lots on to local charities, women’s shelters and hospitals, but we have plenty left for the general public (this pic is just a small selection of the massive donation we’ve had!), so please feel free to forward this information onto anyone this could help.
They are sample packs of two per pack. We only have size 4 (8-14kg) and size 5 (11-18kg) available, and we don’t anticipate getting any other sizes, so this is quite specific, but these are pretty pricey in the shops, usually on offer they still work out at 12p+ per nappy. We’re asking for donations of £1 per 7 sample packs (14 nappies), with no restrictions (until they’re all gone!) on how many packs you can take.
If you’d like some, and are able to get to our Sharehouse: trjfpbrum.com/venues/sharehouse/ to collect, then please:
and we will get back to you.
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.
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
Wow! Two posts from us in two days; aren’t you lucky!
We here at The Real Junk Food Birmingham just wanted to clarify something that some of you may have seen in the media yesterday (Monday 30th January) which has caused some confusion.
There was an article at the end of the evening bulletin on BBC Midlands Today (you can watch it until 7pm today by following this link – the article starts at 22:26) about a local group called Brum Skippers (their Facebook Page is here: https://www.facebook.com/brumskippers/).
We know the Brum Skippers. Some of them have, and still do, volunteer for TRJFP Brum, and we fully support them in their efforts to fight the needless waste of perfectly edible food.
We do need to make it clear however, that the project and the café featured in the clip are not part of The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham, despite having a similar name.
None of the food supplied to the public at any of our events or venues is ever sourced in this way. We can categorically assure you that we do not and will not source food that we supply by rummaging in bins or skips. All our donated food is exactly that – donated knowingly and willingly by suppliers, manufacturers, and individuals, and it leaves their premises through official exits and mostly during daylight hours!
TRJFP Brum adheres to all Environmental Health regulations. That includes sourcing safely, recording accurately, transporting correctly, preparing carefully, and cleaning up responsibly too.
If you’re a business and you have food that is surplus to requirements, here is our handy guide to how to donate to us so we can put it to good use and #feedbelliesnotbins: trjfpbrum.com/donate/donate-food/
Many thanks
Amber (a different Amber to the Brum Skippers one! Yes, we’re everywhere!) and the rest of the TRJFP Brum Team
Bon matin tout le monde! Good morning everyone!
Today at TRJFP Brum we’re feeling continental!
We’ve just had 970 croque-monsieurs delivered to the sharehouse which are ready to be picked up by anyone who would like them for a Pay As You Feel donation (for more about what this means, please read our Frequently Asked Questions section!)
They need to be used within the next 3 days.
For anyone who is unsure what exactly a croque-monsieur is, it’s a toasted ham and cheese sandwich, but with a mustard and emmental cheese dressing on the top. They’re easy to cook; just take out of the packaging, put on a baking sheet into a medium oven for approximately 15 minutes, et voilà!
If you can get to the Sharehouse in Winson Green (click here for address details and map) before 2pm today Monday 29th January, then you are welcome to just turn up. If not, please contact us to arrange collection!
Bon appétit!
