Kendal meals waste charity expands providers

A meals waste charity is increasing its “pay-as-you-can foundation” meal providers to cowl an additional day per week.

Waste into Wellbeing, which repurposes surplus meals in Kendal, Cumbria, will now host a restaurant session on Tuesdays alongside its neighborhood meals larder on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Westmorland and Furness Council mentioned each single merchandise of meals that was repurposed by the group, based mostly on the Eddington CIC, would in any other case go to landfill.

Alison Quigley, from Waste into Wellbeing, mentioned meals poverty was “fairly excessive in Kendal” so the larder was “open to everybody, supporting us to scale back meals waste whereas guaranteeing entry to a nutritious diet”.

The brand new cafe session will open on Tuesdays between 12:00 and 13:30 BST, the identical hours as its Saturday classes.

Eddington CIC voluntary director Jo Haughton mentioned it was “essential to have meals on the coronary heart of it, as a result of that is the one factor that brings folks collectively”.

“The church is a very versatile house the place at present we are able to seat as much as 250 folks.

“The aspiration is to have a variety of actions and occasions happening within the venue, comparable to talks and artistic performances.”