Guest Post: Ditch the Bin

Today's guest post comes from Joe, one of our volunteers at TRJFPB.  He wonders - how hard can it be to ditch your bin?

All the Food in the World!

Spicy Bean Chilli. Source: Thom Novi

Third in line for our posts introducing you to all of our ace Crowdfunder rewards is... our coupon book filled to the brim with vouchers for tasty meals, delicious juices and gorgeous deserts! For a pledge of £10 or more you'll receive enough coupons to keep yourself stocked up with tasty waste food lunches for the year ahead! 

A Workshop With The Rubbish Junkie!

There's only 24 days left for us to raise £15 000 to bring a thriving 7-day waste food cafe to Brighton! As we count down, we'll be continuing our series of posts introducing you to our amazing rewards. Today we'd like to tell you all about our collaboration with The Rubbish Junkie a.k.a. Jess Hooper!

Happy Earth Day!

Blue Marble. Source: NASA

OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

Over forty years ago, the astronauts of Apollo 8 orbited the moon for the first time and captured the iconic "Blue Marble" photographs of the earth from space. The Overview Effect,  describes the radical shift in perspective that happened as a result of these images. To many, the world could no longer be viewed as an inert lump of rock, but an alive, fragile, interconnected, super organism. 

Just Jamming

Mango Jam at the Market. Source: TRJFPB

Apologies for the awful pun! Since the crowdfunder campaign has been live, we have received numerous requests for more details of the rewards on offer for all your lovely pledges! Over the next few weeks we'll be posting about each of the rewards and introducing you to some of our amazing collaborators. We'll also be launching a few extra rewards so keep your eyes peeled!

Meet the Direrctors: Kevin Russell

Kevin Russell and Jayne Russell

Third up for our series of posts introducing you to the people behind TRJFPB is our Director, Kevin Russell!

Kevin is a dual national (South African/Australian) currently resident in the United Kingdom. He lives in Lindfield, West Sussex with his lovely partner, Jayne who is a medical PA. Kevin has 2 children, Ryan and Amber who live in Fremantle Western Australia. Ryan (26) is a post graduate medical student and Amber (22) is in her final year of a Law degree. Over the last 30 years he has lived and worked in a variety of global locations and experienced a multitude of cultures and geographic environments. Kevin’s work career has included significant experience in executive roles and many years as a strategic consultant in his own business. Kevin considers himself fortunate also to have experienced many personally rewarding years in volunteer and community organisations. He is deeply interested in politics, business and social issues and intrigued by the problems and possibilities of sustainability in our society. Kevin is outgoing, with a work-style preference for collaboration, teamwork, and interactive problem-solving. 

Thank You!

Source: Thom Novi

This week we reached our first £1000 for the crowdfunder campaign. There's still a long way to go until we hit our £15000 target to bring a 7-day a week 'pay as you feel' cafe to Brighton, but we'd like to say a huge thank you to all those who have supported TRJFPB so far! As a sign of our appreciation anybody making a pledge will have a place on our lovely supporter wall here (of course, if you'd rather remain anonymous then that's fine too!).

Today we will be at One Church, Gloucester Place serving up a delicious waste free lunch from 1-3pm. Do come join us!

Until then, have an amazing Friday, 

Team TRJFPB x

Meet the Directors: Adam Buckingham

Adam Buckingam. Source: Thom Novi

Second in line for our series introducing the people behind TRJFPB is none other than Adam Buckingham! As the founder of TRJFPB he has played an integral part in getting the project off the ground (and continues to do so!). Find out more about what makes our founder tick below... 

Guest Post: TRJFP Edinburgh

From left: Alleas, Charlie & Donna, Co Directors of TRJFP Edinburgh

Source: TRJFP Edinburgh

Today we have the first in our series of guest posts highlighting projects tackling food waste in Brighton & beyond! First up we have Charlie from TRJFP Edinburgh... 

Have a Waste Free Easter

Source: Susanne Nilsson

This bank holiday the UK will waste over 46 thousand tonnes of food, the equivalent weight of over 115 million Easter eggs*.  

Overwhelmed in a Very Good Way

Our campaign video shot by Thom Novi 

It's safe to say that the launch on Friday was a huge success! We would like to say a massive thank you to all our volunteers and participants. We fed over 300 people, with all food saved from landfill. We are all still so overwhelmed by how it all went - that we are struggling to put it into words of any meaning! Luckily however, our friends at Octopus Alchemy have written a great piece, which sums up the day perfectly. You can read the full article on their blog here, or check out a snippet (well ... chunk!) below: