FoodCycle Volunteers (Cooking or Hosting) - North Of England
ORGANIZATION: FoodCycle
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We’re looking for friendly people who want to help nourish the hungry and lonely in their local community with delicious meals and great conversation, using food which would otherwise go to waste.
- Cooking: roll up your sleeves, sport a fetching hairnet and join the kitchen team to produce a three-course vegetarian meal using surplus food. You’ll be peeling, chopping, frying, mixing, boiling, serving and washing up. But most of all, you’ll have a lot of fun!
* Hosting: support the team in creating a warm, welcoming environment for our guests. You’ll serve food, share a meal with our guest, encourage conversation and clean up after the meal.
* Surplus Food Collector: You will be able to drive to an specified location to pick up the surplus fruit and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste and drop it off at the venue!
Our North locations are;
North East
FoodCycle Benwell - Monday Evenings
FoodCycle Byker - Thursday Evenings
FoodCycle Felling - Friday Morning/Afternoon
FoodCycle Hartlepool - Monday Evenings
FoodCycle Sunderland Ashbrook - Tuesday Morning/Afternoon
FoodCycle Walker - Wednesday Morning/Afternoon
FoodCycle Westgate - Thursday Evening
FoodCycle Middlesbrough Breckon Hill - Tuesday Evening
North West
FoodCycle Bootle - Tuesday Evening
FoodCycle Levenshulme - Thursday Evening
FoodCycle Liverpool Dingle - Wednesday Evening
FoodCycle Oldham - Tuesday Evening
FoodCycle Prestwich - Saturday Afternoon/Evening
FoodCycle Salford Angel Centre - Wednesday Evening
FoodCycle Salford Cornerstone - Tuesday/Thursday Evening
FoodCycle Wythenshawe Brooklands - Wednesday Afternoon/Evening
FoodCycle Liverpool Old Swan - Thursday Evening
Yorkshire & The Humber
FoodCycle Bradford Thorpe Edge - Thursday Evening
FoodCycle Hull Marfleet - Thursday Evening
FoodCycle Leeds Beeston & Holbeck - Wednesday Evening
FoodCycle Leeds Harehills - Thursday Evening
FoodCycle Leeds Seacroft - Tuesday Evening
FoodCycle Sheffield Broomhall - Wednesday Afternoon
FoodCycle Sheffield Parson Cross - Tuesday Evening - FoodCycle Doncaster Central - Tuesday Afternoon
You don’t need to have any previous experience, you just need to get stuck in!
We are an equal opportunity organisation and welcome volunteers with diverse abilities. Check out our website here for more information: https://foodcycle.org.uk/equal-opportunities/
FoodCycle Projects take place weekly in different locations across England and Wales.
Follow the link below to find your local Project and register as a volunteer:
https://volunteer.foodcycle.org.uk/volunteer-sign-up
1 Shift
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09:00 AM to 03:00 PM GMT
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FULL
We offer multiple shifts across the North - on different times and dates
More opportunities with FoodCycle
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About FoodCycle
Location:
2.16 The Food Exchange, New Covent Garden Market, London, London SW8 5EL, GB
Mission Statement
Week in, week out we nourish the hungry and lonely in our communities with delicious meals and great conversation, using food which would otherwise go to waste. Our aims: - Connect communities - Support mental health, wellbeing and reduce loneliness - Nourish the hungry - Promote sustainability - Inspire change
Description
We are FoodCycle, and our vision is to make food poverty, loneliness and food waste a thing of the past for every community.
We connect communities, reducing loneliness and food poverty - working with thousands of volunteers and surplus food to help everyone who needs us. By creating welcoming spaces for people from all walks of life to meet, eat and have conversations, and by offering a weekly telephone Check-in and Chat, we are supporting people’s health and mental wellbeing.
By cooking with surplus ingredients, we promote healthy, sustainable attitudes towards food and its impact on the environment, and help people to learn more about healthy food.
We aim to inspire greater change by sharing the impact of our community dining spaces and the voices of our guests to encourage more people to join and support FoodCycle, so we can help more people and more communities.
CAUSE AREAS
Community,
Environment,
Hunger
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
This opportunity has 1 shift
WHERE
North of EnglandManchester, Newcastle, Yorkshire, Liverpool, DN1 2ALUnited Kingdom
(53.51904 ,-1.12596 )
DATE POSTED
November 26, 2024
SKILLS
- Customer Service
- Food Service
- Multi-Tasking
- Organization
- People Skills
- Problem Solving
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Public Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- It’s easy to volunteer with FoodCycle! We don’t look for minimum commitments, but love it if you keep coming back. An average volunteer slot is 4 hours.
- - You'll need to follow the training you receive when registering with us, and all FoodCycle policies and procedures. You must not be barred from working with children and adults who may be vulnerable and at risk of abuse or neglect.