Rethink Food CIC
Description
Re-Think Food is a Leeds-based social enterprise with a mission to remove hunger as a barrier to children’s learning. It was founded by two teachers who introduced a free breakfast for all children in their school, developed a community café within this school and started collecting surplus food from supermarkets and making the food available via a market stall at the school gates. The legacy of this project was the creation of Rethink Food. They now provide schools with a weekly delivery of food, access to an education resource – Tower Garden – talks at school assemblies, pupil workshops and staff training opportunities. Re-Think Food is using funding from The Fore to design and create an online learning platform for school-based staff, enabling the organisation to extend its reach to more schools even during social distancing.
Nathan Atkinson, Founder of Rethink Food was interviewed as part of The Fore’s At The Forefront series. You can watch the full recording here: At The Forefront with Rethink Food.
Funding programme:Core Programme
Funding round:2020 Autumn
Grant amount:15000
Location: Yorkshire and Humberside
Sector: Health and wellbeing, Poverty and disadvantage, Youth and education, Sustainability & Environment