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City Harvest partners with Bread & Jam Festival 2026
We are delighted to be returning as the charity partner at the Bread & Jam Festival
Landmark National Effort
We are delighted to be part of a landmark national effort bringing together charities, industry, and Government in an ambitious vision to tackle food waste.
“When I’m delivering food, I feel like a superhero” – Jose’s Story
City Harvest driver Jose on feeding London. A food redistribution hero, Jose Da Silva considers the work of City Harvest as an emergency service.
Pip Organic partners with City Harvest food charity
Pip Organic partners with City Harvest food charity to fight child food poverty by donating 12,000 units of Pipsticks fruit snacks for school children.
City Harvest & Comptoir Partner to Support Londoners in Need
We’re delighted to announce our new partnership with Comptoir, who are helping us deliver 1,500 delicious meals every month to communities across London. This year we’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Comptoir, who are joining us in our mission to...
10 Simple Seasonal Soup Recipes
Try these 10 Simple Seasonal Soup Recipes which are great for budget and low-waste cooking this winter.
Top 6 Christmas Leftover Recipes
Try these top 5 Christmas leftover recipes to reduce food waste this Christmas and transform your leftovers into exciting new dishes.
City Harvest’s Best Christmas Gifts
The best Christmas gifts to give are ones that have an impact! Check out these 5 incredible brands giving back this holiday season
40% of London children face food insecurity
40% of London children face food insecurity in 2025. We’re also seeing a record high of school food banks across the UK. City Harvest provides nourishing food to 40,000 children facing hunger & malnutrition every week. We rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it for free to children’s organisations across London.
5 easy bean recipes to save
5 easy bean recipes to add to your repertoire. Beans are good for us and the planet, so let’s explore why they’re amazing and how we should be eating them.
5 ways to use your leftover Halloween pumpkin
Around 18,000 tonnes of pumpkins are discarded annually in the UK post-Halloween. In this article find 5 great ways to use your leftover Halloween pumpkin.
City Harvest: part of first London Overground Mural in 5 years
City Harvest is proud to be part of Acton Central’s London Overground Mosaic Roundel Mural. The first to be made in 5 years for a London station by artist, Maud Milton.
Celebrating Harvest Festival at Westminster Abbey
City Harvest food charity was thrilled to be a part of the National Harvest Festival service at Westminster Abbey on World Food Day alongside Love British Food and other food redistribution and food poverty organisations.
Livery Food Initiative
The Livery Food Initiative and the Livery Kitchen Initiative supports 2.71 million meals for people facing food insecurity Combined, the Livery Kitchen Initiative and Livery Food Initiative have raised £1.2 million for food-related initiatives between 2020 and...
Barons Court Project: Ex-homeless turn art into global business
Barons Court Project: supporting west London's homeless since 1985 Barons Court Project (BCP) is a crucial drop-in centre in Hammersmith and Fulham, offering refuge and support for people living with homelessness or mental health issues. Established to provide more...
World Food Day: Sharing Meals & Building Community at the Abbey Centre
Celebrating vital community work this World Food Day On World Food Day, people around the globe reflect on the role food plays in shaping lives, communities, and futures. World Food Day is celebrated every October 16th, uniting millions in an urgent call to recognise...
The best courgette and feta tart recipe
It is officially courgette season! This courgette & feta tart recipe takes under 30 minute to make. A great way to enjoy the season’s best.
The New Normal: Defining Food Poverty
Defining food poverty, establishing its root causes, and seeking sustainable solutions. On June 23, City Harvest and Pan-Livery taskforce, the Livery Food Initiative hosted a conference 'The New Normal: Defining Food Poverty' at Drapers' Hall. The event united...
Easy 5 ingredient baba ghanoush recipe
This aubergine season, add this simple 5-ingredient baba ghanoush recipe to your summer recipe reportoire.
The Impact of Food Waste on our Oceans
In the UK, the average person throws away nearly 70 kilograms of food every year. Food waste isn’t just a problem on land—it also poses a serious threat to our oceans.
City Harvest selected to tackle surplus food at the farm gate
City Harvest food charity has been awarded funding to support UK farmers and growers by reducing farm gate waste, or ‘national waste crop’.
How UK Farmers Prioritise Soil Health and Fight Food Waste
New research reveals that healthy soil is as vital as a healthy gut—both are essential for thriving ecosystems and human well-being.
Easy Stewed Rhubarb Recipe in 4 ingredients
Natural rhubarb is in the season in the UK, and what better way to celebrate than with this easy stewed rhubarb recipe.
Spring Orzo Recipe with Asparagus and Peas
This Asparagus and Pea Orzo Recipe is a fresh, healthy and protein-packed recipe for a quick midweek dinner or spring lunch.
City Harvest: A London Living Wage Employer
City Harvest celebrates fair pay and is accredited as a London Living Wage employer at the 2025 awards for Ealing.
Is Food Redistribution the Real Solution to Food waste?
Reducing food waste by half could eliminate 25% of total greenhouse gas emissions from the global food system.
Newham Community Project: A Vital Resource for Newham’s Diverse Community
Newham's Community Lifeline: more than a food bank Newham Community Project food bank was established during Ramadan in March 2020 as a response to the locals needs. It has now become an essential lifeline for thousands of residents in the London borough of...
City Harvest: a solution for hospitality industry surplus
The hospitality industry accounts for 12% of total food waste in the UK. City Harvest food charity is a solution to hospitality surplus.
The impact of ‘awful April’ bill rises on food banks and hunger
‘Awful April’ will see bill rises across 7 household bills. The effect of rising costs will be especially felt by those already struggling to afford food.
Top 10 Food Waste Facts You Need to Know in 2025
Food waste is a critical issue. Explore the top 10 food waste facts for 2024 and learn how we can make a difference together.
The reality of school food banks
Across the UK, schools are now operating lifesaving food banks to ensure that students and their families can access food and other necessities essential to health, nutrition and wellbeing.
3-ingredient pancake recipe
This easy, 3-ingredient pancake recipe is all you need this Pancake Day. To prevent food waste, calculate exactly how much batter you’ll need.
A Safe Space for the Local Community – Stockwell Park Community Trust
Stockwell Park Community Trust in south London serves as a safe space for the local community, offering a wide range of services from healthy, hot meals, to helping people get online and employed. Julie and her team see hundreds of people a week and use food as a tool to better understand people’s circumstances, and how they can help them thrive.
20-minute Mushroom Stroganoff Recipe
This smoky, rich and speedy Mushroom Stroganoff Recipe uses ‘meaty’ portabello mushroom & simple ingredients for a hearty, plant-based meal.
Fridge-raid Ramen Recipe
Check out Georgie’s quick and easy fridge-raid ‘ramen’ recipe using 100% surplus ingredients from City Harvest food charity warehouse.
BBC Radio London: Benefits of City Harvest food redistribution
City Harvest CEO Sarah Calcutt speaks on BBC Radio London about the charity’s solution to food surplus at farm gate and its benefits for people.
Combatting the loneliness epidemic through food redistribution
What is the loneliness epidemic and how do City Harvest and its community partners work towards combatting loneliness in London?
City Harvest CEO responds to news of £15 million fund
Sky News interviews City Harvest CEO about the potential benefits that the new £15 million government fund could have on our mission.
City Harvest: Investing in Volunteers Accredited
City Harvest: Investing in Volunteers Accredited We are delighted to announce that City Harvest London have achieved the UK-national Investing in Volunteers accreditation!“I describe volunteers as the beating heart of City Harvest. We couldn’t do what we do without...
10-minute Celeriac Remoulade Recipe
If you’re looking for an easy celeriac remoulade recipe – look no further! This is quick, easy and seasonal, not to mention low energy.
Is Sustainable Packaging Helping Food Waste Reduction in the UK?
Sustainable packaging has grown in popularity, but is it helping food waste reduction? Learn about the pros and cons for UK consumers.
The Role of Food Redistribution in Fighting UK Hunger
Food redistribution helps fight hunger and reduce waste in the UK. See how surplus food and technology support low-income communities.
City Harvest food charity: our 2024 journey
In 2024, City Harvest food charity celebrated a decade of difference, reached the milestone of delivering over 60 million meals, opened a permanent food rescue site at New Covent Garden Market, and much more.
Leftover Vegetable Soup Recipe
Try this quick and easy leftover vegetable soup recipe to help reduce food waste at home.
The Avenues Youth Project: helping London youth to thrive
"Food is integral to what we do at the Avenues Youth Project" The Avenues Youth Project, W10, welcomes young people from every community in West London to a fun, creative space where they can discover new passions, skills and friends. The youth project receives weekly...
Child Food Poverty in the UK: How City Harvest is Helping Change the Future
Child poverty in London affects nearly 700,000 children. City Harvest is working to provide 800,000 meals to help alleviate hunger and improve the futures of vulnerable children.
5-Minute Winter Booster Juice Recipe
Turn your leftover fruit and vegetables into a refreshing, nutrient-packed juice with this 5-minute Nature’s Healer zero waste juice recipe.
Facing Food Poverty in the UK: Understanding the Crisis and How We Can Help
With the rising cost of living, food poverty is impacting millions across the UK. This article explores the factors driving the crisis and solutions to combat food insecurity.
5 Ways UK Food Waste Trends Are Changing in 2024
Discover 2024’s biggest trends in UK food waste. Learn about composting, surplus donations, and how food rescue apps are growing.
Fundraise for City Harvest: top challenge events to sign up for
Join team City Harvest and fundraise for us by signing up for a range of fun and challenging events, from runs to treks!
Zero Waste Pumpkin Pasta Recipe
Don’t toss those Halloween pumpkins! Try our zero-waste pumpkin pasta recipe and turn leftover pumpkins into a tasty, sustainable meal. Join us in reducing food waste this season!
City Harvest’s The Office: Wayne
City Harvest presents “The Office”, our series spotlighting the team behind our mission. This episode follows Wayne on his east London route.
City Harvest breaks GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS ™ with 80K Meals for Charity
The Big Cook Challenge smashes the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ by cooking 79,500 meals for charity in 24 hours, spotlighting food waste and helping local communities.
National Harvest Festival Service in Southwark Cathedral
City Harvest delivers National Harvest Festival Service in Southwark Cathedral On Sunday 6th October, City Harvest delivered the National Harvest Festival Service in Southwark Cathedral. The service was organized in partnership with Covent Garden Market Authority and...
World Food Day Panel: How to Achieve SDG 2
World Food Day 2024: City Harvest hosts a panel of experts to tackle the challenge of how the world can work to end hunger.
Food Waste Hacks for Autumn: How to Save, Store, and Share
Autumn is the perfect time for hearty meals, but it’s also when food waste can increase. Learn easy food waste hacks to reduce, store, and share seasonal produce in your kitchen!
5 Ways the Autumn Season Affects Low-Income Households
Autumn can be difficult for low-income households with rising energy costs and food insecurity. Find out how City Harvest is stepping in to provide nutritious meals and support for families during the colder months.
Top 10 Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Your Home
Explore ten practical ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in your daily life. From energy-saving tips to sustainable eating habits, every small action contributes to a healthier planet.
Under 10 Minutes Recipe: Banana Bread
Don’t let overripe bananas go to waste! Try this quick and easy banana bread recipe that takes less than 10 minutes to prepare, perfect for reducing food waste.
Hygiene Poverty
An unspoken poverty affecting many. The Hygiene Bank defines the term as “not being able to afford many of the everyday hygiene and personal grooming products most of us take for granted.”
City Harvest’s The Office: Ash
The Office, series 1 episode 8 follows Ash, an amazing ambassador for City Harvest who delivers impact across our city daily.
FEAST With Us: bringing people together with community meals
FEAST, supported by City Harvest, has served nearly 250,000 nutritious meals to vulnerable Londoners. Discover how their Healthy Eating on a Budget program is teaching essential cooking and budgeting skills to promote healthier lifestyles.
What are the top 10 most wasted foods?
Did you know these most wasted food items? Here are the top 10 and some practical tips to reduce waste from City Harvest London.
10 Years of City Harvest: A Decade of Difference
In 2024, City Harvest London food charity turned 10 and celebrated a Decade of Difference, rescuing food, people and the planet.
City Harvest’s The Office: Cliff
City Harvest’s The Office gives an insight into the day-to-day lives of City Harvest staff who rescue food and deliver it to people in need.
Healthy Living Platform: building healthier communities
City Harvest south London community partner, Healthy Living Platform is a hive of activity, delivering surplus to local communities in need.
City Harvest Cooking: Tim Anderson’s Miso Banana Tartlets
In City Harvest Cooking, Series 1, Episode 12, cookbook author and chef, Tim Anderson cooks dainty and delicious miso banana tartlets.
City Harvest’s The Office: Carl
City Harvest presents "The Office", our very own series spotlighting the team behind our food rescue mission. Every day brings the very real trials, tribulations and triumphs of working at London's original food redistribution charity. No day is the same, and rarely...
The UK Food Crisis: what is it + how can we solve it?
Following the launch of City Harvest’s 2024 People Report, Professor Tim Laing comments on the food crisis we are in and how we can solve it.
Top 10 sustainable foods to eat
Top 10 planet-friendly foods: Sustainable foods are ones that haven’t travelled far, are seasonal & produced responsibly or regeneratively.
City Harvest Appoints New Chair: Food Industry Leader, Paul Freeston
City Harvest Appoints New Chair: Food Industry Leader, Paul Freeston Paul Freeston, currently Chair & CEO of apetito UK & North America and past Chair and President of the Food & Drink Federation, has been appointed as new Chair of City Harvest London....
UK Content Award Winner: City Harvest’s The Office
UK Content Award Winner: City Harvest’s The Office wins at UK Content Awards 2024 for its creativity on a low-budget.
City Harvest’s award-winning AI artwork
‘The Beauty Of Food Redistribution’ is City Harvest’s Award-Winning AI Artwork, created by artist Yanis George for the charity’s Food Report.
Leftover Bread Recipe: Pappa al Pomodoro
This leftover bread recipe, Pappa al Pomodoro, is a Tuscan bread soup that uses minimal ingredients but packs maximum flavour!
Cooperatives in London: Giving the Power back to the Community
City Harvest community partner, Cooperation Town stands is an example of how community-driven initiatives can address food insecurity, food waste, and promote affordabilty.
City Harvest Cooking: Tim Anderson’s Microwave Pasta
Chef Tim Anderson joins City Harvest Cooking! To celebrate his new book, Microwave Meals, he cooks a microwave pasta!
Partnership for People: City Harvest x Wimbledon Foundation
From emergency response in COVID-19 to the launch of ‘Vandy Murray’: City Harvest has proudly worked with Wimbledon Foundation for 6 years to help rescue food and feed people in need.
Rally4Ever & City Harvest host Tennis Festival for Wimbledon community
Rally4Ever hosts Tennis Festival with Emma Wells Tennis & City Harvest with special appearance from Wimbledon Champion, Pat Cash.
London allotment grows excess to combat food insecurity
Since 2022, Barn Elms Allotment has been proudly collaborating with City Harvest, donating over 900 kg of fresh produce to those in need.
City Harvest Cooking: Chris Baber’s 10-minute Chicken Chow Mein
City Harvest Cooking Presents Chris Baber’s 10-minute chicken chow mein recipe. A simply and satisfying dish that can be a fridge raid recipe!
City Harvest Cooking: Chris Baber’s one-pot Mediterranean Fish
In City Harvest Cooking Series 1, Epiosde 9, Chris Baber cooks a delicious one-pot Mediterranean fish recipe from surplus food.
Merchant Gourmet: a partnership to reduce food waste & poverty
The healthy grains and lentils convenience brand supports City Harvest food rescue charity in a holistic way.
Pentecostal City Mission: 1 in 7 elderly in London skip meals
One out of every ten older people in the UK is either reducing or stopping their social care, or they anticipate doing so in the near future due to financial challenges, according to Age UK.
City Harvest’s The Office: Marvin
City Harvest presents ‘The Office’ featuring our incredible team who make an impact on food poverty and waste in London every day.
City Harvest Cooking: Melissa Thompson’s Spiced Beef Wraps
In City Harvest Cooking Series 1 Ep 8, food writer Melissa Thompson creates delicious beef mince flatbreads using Belazu rose harissa paste.
How to be Sustainable: working with City Harvest food charity
By being part of City Harvest’s sustainable solution, you can make a huge difference. Doing the right thing has never been easier when it comes to tackling food waste and food poverty.
City Harvest Cooking: Melissa Thompson cooks Peanut Stew
City Harvest Cooking welcomes cook, food writer and author, Melissa Thompson who cooks a Peanut Squash Stew as one of her surplus recipes!
Montgomery Group: food events made greener with City Harvest
City Harvest has been rescuing event surplus from Montgomery Group food and drink events since 2017.
Eid Recipe: Mizan’s Bengali Mutton Curry
Eid Mubarak! This Eid Recipe shared by City Harvest’s Miz is a family favourite to break the fast during Ramadan & makes a great Eid recipe.
The Office: Minde
City Harvest presents The Office, Season 1, Episode 3: ‘Minde’
City Harvest drivers’ office is on the streets of London, where they’re delivering vital free food to 375+ community partners across London, feeding people facing #foodpoverty.
Cotswold Fayre: the path to net-zero with City Harvest
The premium wholesaler is now on a mission to reach net zero by 2030 and talks to City Harvest about how the partnership helps Cotswold Fayre meets its ambitious sustainability goals.
City Harvest Cooking: Chantelle Nicholson’s Steak & Charred Baby Gem Lettuce
City Harvest Cooking, Series 1 Episode 6: Chantelle Nicholson cooks surplus steak & Baby Gem lettuce in City Harvest’s warehouse kitchen.
Feeding Hope: Inside the Roehampton Community Box
Meet Roehampton Community Box, a lifeline for six hundred people each week, providing vital support during times of need.
City Harvest Cooking: Chantelle Nicholson’s Noodle Salad
City Harvest Cooking: Chantelle Nicholson’s Noodle Salad. Michelin-star chef and City Harvest Food Council Member, Chantelle, cooks up a storm in City Harvest’s food rescue warehouse.
Food Waste Action Week: By Word of Mouth’s No Waste Canapes
This Food Waste Action Week, we’re celebrating By Word of Mouth’s beautiful no-waste canapes supporting City Harvest food charity.
What is a B Corp?
What is a B Corp? Learn what it means to be B-Corp certified & how City Harvest helps businesses on their B-Corp journey through this case study with partner, Collectiv Food.
City Harvest Cooking: Chantelle Nicholson’s Banana French Toast
City Harvest Cooking: Chantelle Nicholson’s Banana French toast. Using overripe bananas, this quick and easy dessert or brunch dish is a hit.
WRAP CEO Harriet Lamb supports City Harvest
WRAP CEO, Harriet Lamb, endorses City Harvest’s mission to rescue food, people and the planet.
“It makes good business sense to partner with organisations like City Harvest – it means that companies can meet their commitment to reduce carbon emissions and to reduce food waste.”
Lord Mayor launches Livery Food Initiative food rescue truck
The Lord Mayor launches City Harvest’s 7.5-tonne food rescue truck, funded by pan-livery group, Livery Food Initiative.
Peckham Pantry: More Than Just a Social Supermarket
The Peckham Pantry, a social supermarket, has redefined the way communities come together to tackle food insecurity, and food waste while supporting the locals.
City Harvest Cooking: Valentine Warner’s Hot Pepper Prawns
City Harvest Cooking: Valentine Warner’s Hot Pepper Prawns. City Harvest’s newest series welcomes guest chefs to cook with surplus food.
How to Donate Food to City Harvest
Click to learn how to donate food to City Harvest, London’s original food charity, and help rescue food, people & planet.
Collectiv Food: Managing food waste via innovative logistics & AI
Managing food waste through innovative logistics & AI. City Harvest partner, Collectiv Food on reducing food waste and innovative technology.
Quick Pickled Radish Recipe
We’re rescuing lots of radishes at City Harvest at the moment. Try this quick pickled radish recipe to make your radishes last longer.
City Harvest Cooking: Valentine Warner’s Sea Bream Ceviche
City Harvest Cooking: Sea Bream Ceviche. Chef, Valentine Warner uses City Harvest food charity surplus to create a range of recipes.
The Office: Jose
The Office Season 1 Ep 2, featuring legendary City Harvest driver, Jose Da Silva who brings warmth & energy to his charity routes every day.
Volunteer Valentine’s Special: Susan & John
Volunteer Valentine’s Special: couple, Susan & John tell us why they love volunteering and share some love lessons with City Harvest.
City Harvest Cooking: Valentine Warner’s Chicken Curry
City Harvest Cooking: Valentine Warner’s Chicken Curry. TV Chef, Warner cooks in City Harvest food charity’s food rescue depot with surplus.
Chinese New Year Food: Niangao Cake
This Chinese New Year recipe brings good luck! Niangao is a super simple celebration cake made with glutinous rice flour, a Chinese staple.
Tarka Dahl Recipe
This delicious Tarka Dahl recipe is from City Harvest’s London community partner, Women’s Inclusive Team based in Tower Hamlets.
Lentil Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe
This Veganuary, try this cheap and cheerful lentil spaghetti bolognese recipe. This serves 5-6 people and costs under £5.
New Year’s Resolution to Food Waste
Over ⅓ of all food produced globally goes to waste. The UK throws away around 9.5 million tonnes of food waste in a single year – even though 8.4 million people in the UK are in food poverty. Billions of pounds are lost due to unnecessary food disposal.
Leek and Potato Soup Recipe
Warm yourself up with this leek and potato soup recipe this winter. It’s a great way to use up leftover vegetables.
Parkfield Primary: Surplus Vegetable Soup Recipe
Parkfield Primary’s Surplus Vegetable Soup Recipe from City Harvest’s community cookbook: A Taste of City Harvest. Try this easy and healthy recipe for veganuary!
City Harvest expands operation 15% with new mezzanine
London food redistribution charity City Harvest increases its capacity, allowing them to process an additional 60,000 meals a day for the 1 in 4 people who cannot afford food and the 1 million children who face food poverty.
City Harvest Wrapped 2023
It’s that time: City Harvest #Wrapped! where we recap our 2023 achievments thanks to the help of our community & supporters.
Support Services: a resource for City Harvest Volunteers
Support Services: a resource for City Harvest Volunteers. This blog contains links to organisations that provide support for different areas.
Supporting low-income families
9 UK children in a class of 30 face food insecurity. In 2024, low-income families are more disadvantaged than ever as the situation intensified is by a growing ‘working poor’.
Sprouts Recipe: seasonal sprout slaw
The last sprouts recipe in our series and a belter! Here’s a delicious and healthy sprout slaw recipe from our partner, By Word of Mouth.
City Harvest Christmas Concert, King’s Chapel of the Savoy
City Harvest Christmas Concert at the King’s Chapel of the Savoy, 6 December 2023: a beautiful evening of thanks to City Harvest supporters.
Ultimate Roast Potatoes by Chantelle Nicholson
This Christmas, try this Ultimate Roast Potatoes recipe by Chantelle Nicholson, Michelin Green Star chef, restauranteur & City Harvest food council member.
The Office: Shay
City Harvest presents "The Office", our very own series spotlighting the team behind our food rescue mission. Every day brings the very real trials, tribulations and triumphs of working at London's original food redistribution charity. No day is the same, and rarely...
Homelessness in the UK has increased by 74% since 2010, City Harvest Talks to Acton Homeless Concern
Non profit organisation City Harvest speaks to Acton Homeless Concern on the rise of homelessness in the UK in the past 15 years.
1 in 10 elderly people face food poverty in the UK
1 in 10 elderly people face food poverty in the UK. City Harvest delivers free food for 630k meals to charities supporting the elderly.
Sprouts Recipe: Mediterranean Brussels Sprouts
Try this Mediterranean Brussels Sprouts recipe for a twist this Christmas for a great vegetarian centrepiece or side this festive season.
Sprouts Recipe: Korean-inspired pancakes
This festive season, try this slightly different sprout recipe, inspired by the Korean Yachaejeon. It’s a cheap, easy way to use up sprouts!
St Mary’s Battersea: supporting families through the winter
Battersea-based Primary School, St Mary’s opens its doors to parents every Tuesday for a weekly food bank to support the school community who face food insecurity. Numbers have crept up since lockdown, signalling the continued need for the food bank to stay open and Associate Head, Claire Mitchell, and her team are there come rain or shine to support the parents and children at St Mary’s.
The Feathers Association: Supporting local children with surplus food
City Harvest community partner, the Feathers Association, is a Marylebone-based youth hub geared towards extracurricular enrichment, supporting children of all ages with homework help, free activities, and free food.
APPLE: Empowering young people through food and creative skills
City Harvest’s local Acton community partner, APPLE, empowers young people through free food and creative skills at its activity centre. City Harvest speaks with project workers about how food helps the community.
Fighting Food Poverty: City Harvest Delivers 80,000 free meals to Carney’s Community Centre
Fighting Food Poverty: City Harvest delivers 80,000 free meals to Carney’s Community Centre – a hub that supports Battersea’s youth via its Fit & Fed Programme.
City Harvest Festival: Arriva Rail supports local food charity
City Harvest Festival: Arriva Rail supports local food charity. Local TfL Overground station gets involved in food and fund-raising drive.
Thanksgiving Recipe: Spiced Apple Cake
This seriously cinnamon spiced apple cake is from City Harvest’s Cookbook, A Taste of City Harvest and makes a fantastic Thanksgiving recipe. It’s sweet, spiced and in season, using British apples like Bramley and Braeburn. A Taste of City Harvest is available to buy on Amazon.
Thanksgiving Recipe: Pumpkin Mac and Cheese
Ultimate comfort food in the form of pumpkin mac and cheese. Make this for a warming autumnal dinner, or as an easy Thansgiving recipe! The sweetness of the pumpkin (or any winter squash of your choice) is an extra special addition to this classic comfort food.
Curried Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
This curried butternut squash soup recipe by our charity partner, St Luke’s Community Centre, is the perfect autumn weeknight warmer. A great recipe for batch-cooking or planning ahead for busy weeks.
Belazu’s No Waste Cauliflower Recipe
City Harvest’s long term partner Belazu shares its no waste cauliflower recipe that uses mediterannean ingredients such as rose harissa, chickpeas, sundried tomatoes, and a special no waste twist using aqaufaba.
COP28 explained: what does it mean for food waste?
COP28 explained: what does it mean for food waste? 2023’s conference will address the role of food as a major contributor to climate change.
The Fruiterers support City Harvest London
The Fruiterers’, part of the Livery Food Initiative supporting food rescue charity, City Harvest, give out apples in support of the London charity on the Lord Mayor’s City Giving Day, October 2023.
Thank you for supporting City Harvest Festival 2023
City Harvest food charity’s London-wide community has rallied with food and fundraising drives to support city Harvest Festival 2023. Thank you to all the organisations who took part and contributed to a total of 6.5 tonnes of food donated for Londoners in need.
Pumpkin Recipes: Pumpkin gnocchi
Don't throw away your Halloween pumpkins!Pumpkins are nutritious, delicious and a good source of fibre. This year, instead of discarding your Jack O'Lantern, why not try a delicious pumpkin recipe like this easy pumpkin gnocchi. Gnocchi might seem like hard things to...
5 ways to use your leftover Halloween pumpkins
A shocking 15 million pumpkins are wasted in the UK each year after Halloween. Here are 5 ways to use your leftover Halloween pumpkins and fight food waste in a creative way.
Pumpkin Recipes: pumpkin & dark chocolate muffins
Let’s prevent pumpkin waste! This delicious pumpkin and dark chocolate muffin recipe by Filippo Berio is a great way to use leftover Halloween pumpkin and turn it into a treat to share.
How does food waste cause water waste?
We can’t talk about food waste without talking about water waste. Every piece of food has a ‘water footprint’, using up earth’s freshwater.
Italian Food: Leek and Potato Risotto Recipe
Where an English classic meets Italian food. Try this seasonal and hearty leek and risotto recipe for a midweek Autumn meal to warm the soul. A few staple, store-cupboard ingredients come together to create the ultimate comfort food.
Rescuing Food at New Spitalfields Market
City Harvest London food charity’s site at New Spitalfields Market, Leyton, rescues surplus fresh produce from market traders. Hear from City Harvest site manager, Philmar Dunner-Husbands about how important relationships within the team and at the market are, and learn about why traders donate their fresh produce.
City Harvest Festival at St Paul’s Cathedral
City Harvest food charity celebrated its annual Harvest Festival with a special service at St Paul’s Cathedral alongside its community of London charity partners, donors and supporters. The event also saw the launch of City Harvest’s Food Report via an evocative 3D, AI and AR art exhibition in the cathedral’s crypt.
Soaring food poverty sees return of Harvest Festival to St Paul’s
St Paul’s Cathedral will stage its first harvest festival in years this weekend in response to soaring levels of food poverty caused by the cost-of-living crisis.
The service, in partnership with City Harvest, also marks the launch of a new report by the food charity that shows producers and retailers pay over £100 million each year to throw away food that could feed the hungry.
Back British Farming: City Harvest to be first NFU farm gate partner
The NFU has announced a significant partnership with City Harvest, designating them as their farm gate waste partners. The guiding principle behind this partnership is deceptively simple: “If you would eat it, we will collect it.” City Harvest’s CEO, Sarah Calcutt, herself a farmer and NFU member, has pledged that no good food will go to waste in a bid to Back British Farming and feed people in need with quality fresh produce.
City Harvest delivers 50 million meals to Londoners in need
City Harvest has delivered 50 million meals to Londoners in need since the charity’s inception, which equals 21,000 tonnes surplus food.
Chris Baber’s Strawberry & Raspberry Crumble Recipe
Make the most of summer berries with this delicious crumble recipe, shared by City Harvest Food Council member and chef, Chris Baber.
Cherry Clafoutis Dessert Recipe
Make the most of English cherry season with this delicious cherry clafoutis dessert recipe. For more seasonal recipes, visit our site.
Pam’s Spicy Sauce Recipe
Long-term City Harvest volunteer, Pam, after whom we named our HQ kitchen, serves up her spicy sauce recipe. Pam has been cooking Caribbean delights for City Harvest staff and volunteers since the charity’s inception, and her love of food is infectious. Try out her seriously spicy sauce recipe for a marinade or extra hit of spice to add to any meal.
London Live News: City Harvest and Angelic make summer snacking safe for hungry children with allergies
City Harvest and Angelic make summer snacking safe for hungry children with allergies With up to two children in every UK classroom now suffering from a food allergy and numbers rising, access to safe food options is a daily challenge for those affected – and one that...
Holiday Hunger: City Harvest supports school food banks
ITV London reports on the demand for school food banks to feed their communities, especially during the school holidays. City Harvest food charity supports school food banks but has a large waitlist of people needing urgent help amidst the cost of living crisis.
By Word of Mouth: Burrata with asparagus, courgette and lemon recipe
City Harvest partner, London caterer By Word Of Mouth, shares a mouth-watering, seasonal burrata recipe with summer flavours of asparagus, courgette and lemon. Swap the burrata for mozzarella for a cheaper version!
City Harvest makes an impact with LEYF nurseries
City Harvest free food has been making an impact with LEYF nurseries across London, utilising surplus food to help support children from disadvantaged backgrounds with additional hours at nursery. These children are ineligible for the extra hours simply because their parents are either unemployed or on low incomes. LEYF, alongside City Harvest, is on a mission to provide equal opportunities to all children, giving them the step up they need in life through nutritious food and early years stimulation.
Courgette Recipes
City Harvest food charity receives gluts of seasonal fruit and vegetables throughout the year, destined for our 375+ charity partners. With courgettes now flying in and out of our depot doors, here is some inspiration for healthy and delicious courgette recipes this summer.
Royal Ascot supports City Harvest
City Harvest surplus food partner, Royal Ascot, supports the food charity with over 5,000 meals worth of catered food surplus from racing events this summer.
Vandy Murray delivers impact to Wimbledon and beyond
Wimbledon-supported ‘Vandy Murray’ delivers 800k meals yearly to Londoners in need via City Harvest’s sustainable redistribution network.
“With one in four households in London facing food insecurity, City Harvest provides a lifeline to people in need in our local communities. Through our sponsorship of Vandy Murray, we are proud to be supporting the amazing work they do.” Paige Murphy, Head of the Wimbledon Foundation
Wholegood: the value of working with City Harvest
City Harvest long-term partner, Wholegood, has supported the food charity with surplus fresh produce since 2018.
Rodanto Ltd: finding a home for fresh produce with City Harvest
City Harvest works with fresh produce partners like Rodanto Ltd to rapidly rescue short-dated, fresh produce to feed those in need. We speak to Rodanto Technical Manager, Yani, about the benefits of redistributing surplus with City Harvest.
The Roehampton Community Box: helping families through the holidays
When expenses for families go up in the holidays, Roehampton Community Box supports with vital free food from City Harvest. Families rely on fresh ingredients to make meals go further in the school holidays.
Livery Food Initiative Delivers Meals to Charities Across London
Hilary Lindsay and Denise Fellows from the Livery Food Initiative deliver food to London charities with Jose from City Harvest.
Worshipful Company of Innholders Visits City Harvest
Past Master, Julia Sibley MBE from the Worshipful Company of Innholders tells us about her visit to City Harvest, Acton.Above: Julia of the Worshipful Company of Innholders stands with Livery Food Initiative van, driver, Lasalle, and a volunteer nun from St. Mary...
Dulwich College Supports City Harvest
Friends of Dulwich College Fundraise to Feed London £25k EQUALS 100k meals Above, left to right: City Harvest founders, Steve & Laura Winningham, headmaster of Dulwich College, Will Beckett.City Harvest driver Jose, & Po at a London school. Many schools now...
4-ingredient tomato sauce recipe
As we enter Summer months and tomato season across Europe, try this tomato sauce recipe by Cristina. With just 4 ingredients, it’s simple and quick and great to have with pasta, eggs, or anything!
London US Embassy Supports City Harvest
London US Embassy Food Drive Supports City Harvest London It was a joyous occasion for our American co-founder Steve Winningham, trustee Kathy Street and our CEO Sarah Calcutt to visit Ambassador Hartley and her team at the London US embassy. Long standing City...
London’s Community Kitchen: Pea Protein Burger Recipe
City Harvest charity recipient, London’s Commuity Kitchen chef Douglas shares a belter for Pea Protein burgers. This is a great meat-free recipe for summer BBQs.
Volunteer Week 2023: celebrating our volunteer community
City Harvest volunteers are central to our food rescue operation. This Volunteer Week, we celebrate the impact of our volunteer community via City Harvest’s EQUALS campaign. 1 hour spent volunteering EQUALS 530 meals delivered to charities feeding their communties.
Sysco GB: Doing business responsibly with City Harvest
City Harvest surplus food partner Sysco GB does business responsibly by diverting industry surplus to those in need via City Harvest’s logistical solution. Sustainability Manager, Emily Pinkney, details her experience working with City Harvest to do good for people, and the planet, and how, in business terms, it couldn’t be more responsible, or needed.
The Big Help Out at City Harvest
For the Big Help Out, City Harvest food charity opened its doors as part of the Coronation efforts to encourage volunteering nationwide. The charity’s Acton warehouse was a hive of activity, celebrating its existing community of volunteers, and welcoming new ones to the surplus redistribution operation.
City Harvest: Part of the Fabric of London
City Harvest celebrates His Majesty, King Charles III’s Coronation with our greatest ode to London: our special edition union-flag fleet of food rescue vans, supported by our London landmark partners.
Chicken Satay Curry Recipe
City Harvest amabassador, Chris Baber, shares his take on a chicken satay curry from his latest cookbook, ‘Easy’.
A Taste of City Harvest: the cookbook
Food connects us all. A Taste of City Harvest is a volume of recipes from the food charity’s grassroots recipients who use quality surplus to feed Londoners in need. City Harvest provides over 1.2 million meals a month to charities feeding their communities.
QPR backs City Harvest’s EQUALS campaign
City Harvest food charity’s local west London football club, QPR, support the launch of its EQUALS campaign by fundraising at Loftus Road, as well as the squad warming up in EQUALS kit. EQUALS shows Londoners the impact they can have by supporting City Harvest.
Fuellers support City Harvest: Livery Food Initiative
The Fuellers, part of the Livery Food Initiative, support food charity City Harvest with food rescue van as need for free food skyrockets.
Zapp: City Harvest helps us meet our sustainability goals
City Harvest food charity helps rapid delivery company Zapp meet its sustainable goals: reducing food waste and delivering positive impact.
University of West London backs City Harvest EQUALS campaign
University of West London students created the concept of EQUALS, a social impact campaign executed by food rescue charity, City Harvest.
Easter Hot Cross Bun Recipe
A classic hot cross bun recipe for Easter to enjoy with family and friends. Try substituting dried fruit for any fresh fruit that needs using.
Dinner Ladies: Sauerkraut Recipe
Try this delicious sauerkraut recipe by City Harvest partner, Dinner Ladies. Prevent food waste and promote gut health with this easy recipe.
Wimbledon Foundation x City Harvest
City Harvest launches ‘Vandy Murray’, a food rescue van to help feed Londoners in crisis, symbolising the historic partnership with the Wimbledon Foundation.
The London Lions ‘spend time’ with local Beckton youth group
Partners City Harvest & London Lions make an impact in east London, home to City Harvest charity partner, Beckton Globe Youth Zone. The basketball club supports City Harvest’s new social impact campaign, EQUALS.
Artemis Charitable Foundation funds City Harvest food rescue van
Artemis Charitable Foundation funds City Harvest food rescue van, delivering £4 million worth of surplus food to Londoners facing food poverty.
YF: City Harvest is the conduit for innovative food brands to do good
City Harvest B-Corp partner, yf, champions a network of innovative, food brands looking to do good by people and the planet.
PIE Factory Partners with City Harvest
City Harvest and PIE Factory have joined forces to sustainably promote the prevention of food waste and address food poverty at events.
Belazu: Living the B-Corp Values with City Harvest
City Harvest B-Corp partner, Belazu, lives the B-Corp values by reducing food waste and volunteering.
Holy Moly: City Harvest is a key part of our B-Corp journey
City Harvest B-Corp partner, Holy Moly, supports the food rescue charity in three key ways.
Moving Mountains: working with City Harvest is a no brainer
City Harvest plant-based meat alternative food partner, Moving Mountains helps rescue food, people, and the planet. In donating its quality surplus, the vegan brand can cut costs and meaure its social and environmental impact, especially when the team comes to...
Apple and Ginger Kimchi
As it's Food Waste Action Week, what better way to elongate the shelf life of fresh ingredients than fermenting them? Gut health is incredibly important, and this apple and ginger kimchi, using unsuspecting ingredients, is the perfect addition to meat, fish, and rice...
allplants: City Harvest helped us get top B-Corp score
allplants has acheived a top B-Corp score because of its positive impact on people and planetCity Harvest B-Corp partner, allplants, re-certified as an 'Outstanding' B-Corp in 2021 thanks to working with food distribution charities like City Harvest. "We’ve worked...
B-Corp Month 2023
City Harvest helps food brands to go beyond This B-Corp Month, we are shining the light on our B-Corp partners, how they help City Harvest rescue food, people, and the planet, and, how City Harvest helps purpose-led brands on their sustainability journey. The B-Corp...
Unrooted Drinks: City Harvest distributes discontinued stock
By working with City Harvest, the team at Unrooted Drinks has been able to divert discontinued stock to nourish local communities.
Frank Bandura – Changing the business of food business for good
Changing the business of food business for good As someone who has been around the food and drinks industry for most of my working life, I'm heartened to see many new brands with a real sense of social purpose entering the market. While there's always been the idea...
Jeremy Perl – The sustainability tool that’s good for communities and businesses
The sustainability tool that’s good for communities and for businesses. by Jeremy Perl When you first learn to paraglide, you’re taught to pick a target on the horizon and to run smoothly towards it until you take off. ‘Always look at where you want to go’. I come...
Will Beckett – The business case for tackling food waste
The business case for tackling food waste Every day, around three million tonnes of perfectly good food ends up as waste before it has even left the farm. That’s enough to make more than 18 million meals.[1] At the same time, the number of people in the UK relying on...
Giles Moody – Time’s up on food waste
Time’s up on food waste By Giles Moody, Head of Data & Tech, YF and Food Council Member, City Harvest.It’s no secret that food suppliers sometimes produce more stock than they need to fill orders from their customers. Likewise, shops, supermarkets, and restaurants...
Doughlicious: Cookie Pizza Recipe
City Harvest food donor, Doughlicious, specialises in gluten-free cookie dough and cookie products, as well as its innovative 'Doughchi'. Our neighbours in Park Royal are keen to make sure no doughlicious-ness goes to waste. We recently caught up with Kathryn Bricken...
Apple Season: Parsnip & Bramley Apple soup
Parsnip and Apple Soup Recipe - by Sarah Calcutt It's apple season! Sarah Calcutt, founding partner of Partners in Produce, Non-Exec Director of New Covent Garden Market, and City Harvest Food Council member, shares some of her favourite seasonal recipes with City...
Sysco GB partners with City Harvest
Global food leader to provide 200,000 meals Sysco GB Extends its strategic partnership with City Harvest. The partnertship will provide around 200,000 meals and save 330 tonnes of carbon emissions annually. "Working with City Harvest is so easy, we recommend them to...
Food Council
We’re proud to work with some of the leading names in the food industry who share our passion for tackling waste and inequality for a more sustainable planet. From restauranteurs to retailers and farmers to financiers, our Food Council works with us to achieve our...
Omnifoods: Korean Bibimbap
A vegan rendition of the Korean classic by City Harvest food donor, OmniFoods Get this delicious vegan recipe by City Harvest food donor, OmniFoods, using its plant-based mince product, OmniMince. Bibimbap is a Korean staple - make it vegan this Veganuary! Ingredients...
Moving Mountains: Dan Dan Noodles
A plant-based recipe from our friends at Moving Mountains City Harvest food partner, Moving Mountains is a gamechanger in the plant-based world. Moving Mountains is driven by a long-standing passion to make a positive difference to the planet and is aligned with City...
CPFC Palace for Life Foundation Supports City Harvest
Crystal Palace fans, and CPFC Palace for Life Foundation, help local communities amidst cost-of-living crisis with a food drive for City Harvest food charity.
Sky News Italia – City Harvest
Sky News Italia speaks to City Harvest food charity's Head of Community Impact, Marco Torquati, about the startling levels of food poverty amongst Londoners this Christmas, and to CEO, Sarah Calcutt, on the economic crisis and what this means for the charity's demand....
Nourishing Children: Parkfield Primary School
City Harvest charity partner, Parkfield Primary School's Community Boxes have been life lines for families in need. #feedthefuture “We’re supposed to be here to teach children to read and write, aren’t we? But they can’t do that if they’re hungry.” Hunger used to...
Whole Foods Market x City Harvest – Shop Local, Give Local
City Harvest's very first food donor gives back to the community. Shop Local, Give Local City Harvest is thrilled to be Whole Foods Market’s chosen charity for their 2022 ‘Shop Local, Give Local’ campaign. This initiative focuses on supporting local businesses and...
City Speaks Up: Manorfield Primary School
City Harvest delivers to Manorfield Primary School. Topping up local food banks feeding families in need. Read more
Nourishing Children: Cyril Jackson Primary School
City Harvest food recipient, Cyril Jackson primary, feeds families and children in crisisHunger is now on the rampage. It marches ever closer, penetrating our communities and schools, even breaching the walls of our houses and flats. It may be next door. It may have...
Thanksgiving Kimchi Mac n Cheese by Judy Joo
By chef Judy Joo, City Harvest Food Council member It's Thanksgiving, so we're sharing this delicious Kimchi Mac n Cheese recipe from American chef, and City Harvest Food Council member, Judy Joo. Add this sizzling side dish to your repertoire! Judy Joo "Mac and...
Hawksmoor: Creamed Spinach
City Harvest partner, Hawksmoor's trademark side dish!City Harvest London's supporter and recently B-Corp certified restaurant chain, Hawksmoor, shares its iconic creamed spinach recipe with us. Will Beckett, Hawksmoor co-founder and sustainability champion, is...
Lolas Cupcakes x City Harvest
City Harvest food partner, Lola's Cupcakes, supports our people and planet-focused mission.City Harvest food partner, Lola's Cupcakes, supports the food charity's mission to rescue food, people, and the planet. Lola's has been donating 1500 cupcakes a week to City...
Hawksmoor is a B-corp!
City Harvest partner and ambassador, Hawksmoor, puts people and planet first. We're delighted to announce that partner, Hawksmoor is a certified B-Corp. City Harvest speaks with Will Beckett, founder of sustainable restaurant chain, Hawksmoor, and City Harvest food...
Harvest for Hunger 2022 Follow Up
City Harvest's farms campaign saves 3x more surplus than last year.City Harvest’s Harvest for Hunger initiative rescues enough farm food for 1.7 million meals. Working with UK farms and producers, London-based food charity, City Harvest rescued enough fresh produce...
Gourd Recipe by Valentine Warner
by Valentine Warner, TV Chef and City Harvest Food Council MemberThis Halloween, 2.2 million pumpkins will be uneaten in the UK as people discard whole carved pumpkins once spooky season ends. Let's enjoy delcious seasonal produce WITHOUT wasting a thing. Here's a...
City Speaks Up: Let Me Play
Hammersmith-based action group feeds kids in the holidays.City Harvest free food recipient, LMP Action CIC, combats holiday hunger and the other disproportionate effects of the cost-of-living crisis on low-income families with kids.Mona Vadher, Director at LMP Action...
City Speaks Up: A.P.P.L.E on Holiday Hunger
Acton charity, A.P.P.L.E feeds vulnerable kids during the school holidays City Harvest food recipient, A.P.P.L.E (Acton Play Projects & Leisure Events) sees demand for free food soar amidst cost-of-living crisis, especially during school holidays. The...
Rabobank x City Harvest: Corporate Partnership
A bank with sustainability at its core supports City Harvest LondonRabobank: a Corporate Partnership Helping to Rescue Food, People, and the Planet with City Harvest.Will Jennings, CEO/General Manager of Rabobank UK “I am very proud to be stood by the Rabobank -...
Nourishing Children: City Harvest x allplants
Working to alleviate Holiday HungerCity Harvest believes in the right to food. Healthy and nutritious food is essential for child development, both physical and mental, and should be accessible to all. Since January, food insecurity has doubled, with more than 4...
Sarah Calcutt – Chief Executive of City Harvest
An unstoppable force for good City Harvest London is proud to appoint Sarah Calcutt as its new CEO, she will be joining the highly motivated team who are making a huge impact in the capital and beyond. Sarah will work closely with founders, Laura Winningham,...
#FeedTheFuture: City Harvest joins the campaign for Free School Meals
Child Food Poverty Is a Vital Issue #feedthefuture Expanding Free School Meals would generate up to £41.3 bn for the economy The Feed the Future campaign #FEEDTHEFUTURE seeks a transformational policy shift that would provide free school meals to all children in...
France TV – 20 Heures News
Interviews City Harvest on the rise of foodbanks & Cost of Living Crisis '20 heures' - France TV. Network: France 2 - Broadcast 5th October 2022 Reporter: Ambroise Bouleis “More and more people rely on foodbanks. In the UK, the number of foodbanks is larger...
Evening Standard: City Harvest Food Charity Video
How City Harvest Works to Prevent Food WastePublished by the Evening Standard 29 September 2022. by Coralie Ayala Every year in London about half a million tonnes of edible food is wasted, which has been intensified by the cost-of-living crisis. But organisations like...
Pumpkin Season: Pumpkin Bread Rolls
By Filippo Berio, City Harvest food partnerCity Harvest food partner and leading olive oil brand, Filippo Berio UK, shares autumnal recipes with City Harvest this September. "These Pumpkin Bread Rolls are perfect for making in Autumn or for Halloween as they look like...
Pumpkin Season: Indian Pumpkin Butter Chickpeas
By Filippo Berio, City Harvest Food Partner City Harvest food partner and leading olive oil brand, Filippo Berio UK, shares autumnal recipes with City Harvest. "This recipe is filled with warming spices and fall flavours, this chickpea pumpkin curry will be a fall...
Apple Season: Apple Puree Recipe
Apple Puree Recipe For cakes, breakfasts, and pancakes - by Sarah Calcutt It's apple season! Sarah Calcutt, founding partner of Partners in Produce, Non-Exec Director of New Covent Garden Market, and City Harvest Food Council member, shares some of her favourite...
City Speaks Up: Granville Community Kitchen
The Kilburn Community Kitchen sustainably navigating the cost-of-living crisis “People are really crying out to us. People are in desperate situations." - Leslie Barson on the cost-of-living crisis. Leslie Barson, Founder, Granville Community Kitchen "Food aid has...
City Harvest at Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2022
Why speciality & fine food brands partner with City HarvestCome and say hello to our team - we'll be on stand 1360 on the 5th & 6th September. City Harvest is proud to be Montgomery Group's charity partner for the Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2022 at...
Apple Season: Apple Puree Cake
Apple Puree Recipe - by Sarah Calcutt It's apple season! Sarah Calcutt, founding partner of Partners in Produce, Non-Exec Director of New Covent Garden Market, and City Harvest Food Council member, shares some of her favourite seasonal recipes with City Harvest....
City Harvest Food Council: Chris Baber x Bay 20
M&S Chef and City Harvest ambassador cooks up a storm in our Acton depot with City Harvest charity partnersChris Baber, City Harvest Food Council member, chef, author, and broadcaster, cooks his chana masala for City Harvest and friends. City Harvest Food Council...
Record levels of food poverty
The Food Foundation speaks with City HarvestLondon-based food redistribution charity City Harvest, to date has rescued 15,170 tonnes of surplus food and delivered over 36 million meals to people in need since 2014 - saving more than 57,645 tonnes of greenhouse gas...
City Speaks Up: Elizabeth House
Islington's Elizabeth House Community Centre "From talking to our residents, we know people are stressed." - Roshni Shah on the cost-of-living crisisRoshni Shah, Community Coordinator, Elizabeth House Community Centre. "Our food hub, since we've begun, we've supported...
Charity Spotlight: Ringcross Community Food Bank
Helping its Islington community through the cost of living crisis Ringcross Community Centre Food Bank feeds up to 200 people a day. The beating heart of the Islington estate pivoted to become a free food provider during COVID-19 for residents facing food poverty....
Zaatar Roast Aubergine with Cumin Rice
by Chris Baber, Chef & City Harvest Food Council MemberServes 6 / 50 minutes "This Middle Eastern-inspired veggie recipe looks epic served ona platter in the middle of the table. Za’atar is a blend of herbs and spices with a nice zing to it. If you want a touch of...
10 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Food Waste
Reducing Food Waste at Home is Easy City Harvest exists to tackle two huge societal issues: food waste and food poverty. Between 30% - 40% of all food produced globally is wasted. Food waste alone generates about 8% - 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning...
Chef Chantelle Nicholson Launches Apricity
City Harvest Food Council Member shares her passion for sustainability Apricity /a-PRIS-i-tee/ The warmth of the sun in winter. Symbolising regeneration, rejuvenation, generosity, and light, Apricity, the latest restaurant from multi-award-winning chef owner Chantelle...
Sausage & Egg Breakfast Tacos
by Chris Baber, City Harvest Food Council memberServes 2 - Cook / Prep Time 15 minutes "This nice and spicy spin on sausage and eggs is perfect for a lazy weekend breakfast or brunch. If you’re anything like me and love a bit of spice in the morning, leave the seeds...
Q&A with City Harvest Head of Food
Dan McAlpine explains City Harvest's Sustainable Solution to Food Waste Dan McAlpine, Head of Food at City Harvest, has vast experience working in the food industry with extensive knowledge of the UK food system and the intricate workings of industrial supply chains....
City Harvest Jubilee van
The Vintners' Company Helping City Harvest Feed London in a Time of CrisisAs part of the fabric of London, we celebrate the jubilee and City Harvest's mission, ‘Rescuing Food, People, & Planet'. Every day our vans rescue nutritious surplus food, enough food for...
Ramadan Mubarak: Newham Community Project
Est. During Ramadan 2020, Newham Community Project receives free halal food from City HarvestNewham Community Project: A food hub, founded during Ramadan in March 2020, to help people in need. City Harvest delivers free nutritious food to Newham and 350+ charities,...
Earth Day: Invest in Our Planet with City Harvest
The Farms, B-Corps, and Sustainability Champions helping to Rescue People & Planet. Food loss and waste are colossal contributors to climate change, as one-third of all food produced globally is wasted. Food loss and waste are also a significant squandering of...
International Food & Drink Event 2022
International Food & Drink Event 2022 Partners with City Harvest to Rescue Food, People & Planet City Harvest's team was hard to miss at this year's International Food & Drink Event (IFE) ExCel, as Montgomery’s official charity partner. We live for any...
Harvest for Hunger: Adrian Scripps
City Harvest's newest farm surplus partner Pink Lady pioneers, Adrian Scripps farm, joins City Harvest’s Harvest for Hunger campaign to ensure access to fresh fruit for those facing food poverty in London. We’re delighted to announce our partnership with Adrian...
Harvest for Hunger 2022
2022 goal: To rescue nutritious surplus for 2 million mealsMarch - October 2022. Working with farms and producers, City Harvest launches its second annual ‘Harvest for Hunger’ campaign, aiming to rescue nutritious food for 2 million meals. Responsive and reliable when...
SDG 5 x City Harvest: Promoting Gender Equality
An International Women's Day ExclusiveCity Harvest - Promoting Gender Equality with Food Redistribution Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8th, this month’s piece explores how City Harvest aligns with SDG 5: Gender Equality. City Harvest is proud to promote...
From London with Love
City Harvest provides food for London charity trucks driving to Poland Since before the pandemic, City Harvest has provided food to Ealing-based charity, Heart Gift Trust. This week they asked for our help to send supplies to Poland for the massive influx of refugees...
Rescuing Food, People & the Planet
The Times newspaper shot this video at City Harvest's Acton depot (December 2021) sponsored by Barclays, to record the impact of the work carried out during the pandemic, showing how our incredible team continues to operate at an extreme scale. Barclays' 100x100...
Zero Waste Carrot Recipes
Making the most of your carrots this Stop Food Waste Day! It's #StopFoodWasteDay so we're sharing some zero-waste carrot recipes to prevent food waste at home! Use the following links to jump straight to the recipe you want. Carrot & Sweet Potato Soup | Carrot...
City Harvest charity video shortlisted for Smiley Award
'How City Harvest Helps Londoners' a short film featuring the inspiring Hackney SDA Community Food Bank.City Harvest Charity Film, featuring surplus food recipient, Hackney SDA Community Food Bank, is shortlisted for a Smiley Movement Charity Film Award. City...
Jamal Edwards, Thank You
Your light will continue to shine After the shocking news of his passing, we wanted to say thank you in memory of Jamal Edwards. Jamal Edwards has always been such a local hero. From the massive investment he put into Acton's youth, his charity work, to the art we see...
Charity Spotlight: Passage House
City Harvest’s food donations enable Passage House to spend its time and money on providing extra services. City Harvest surplus recipient, Passage House, Westminster, feeds roughly 40 individuals in a hostel connected to The Passage charity, dedicated to serving and...
SDG 1 x City Harvest: Tackling Poverty Through Food Redistribution
How City Harvest addresses and aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals City Harvest - Tackling Poverty Through Food Redistribution. This month’s piece explores how City Harvest aligns with SDG #1: No Poverty. In 2015, the World Bank estimated that 736 million...
City Harvest Driver: Solomon Abraha
Solomon has helped to Rescue Christmas, and every day, for many across London in 6 short months Rescuing Food, People, and Planet City Harvest drivers keep our vans rolling and London fed, they are the grafters in our last-mile efforts to rescue food, people, and...
City Harvest Driver: Rich Barker
Our team of drivers will Rescue Christmas for so many this year, delivering free food to those in most need.City Harvest driver Richard Barker, Rich, or Richie, is known and loved by so many of our charity partners in north and east London. From the Isle of Dogs to...
Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2021: why food companies partner with us
Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2021 attendee foodbrands chose to put their surplus food to better use.As London’s first “last-mile” food redistribution charity, City Harvest rescues nutritious surplus food from manufacturers, wholesalers, farms and retailers, and...
Newling Fruitgrowers Ltd surplus fruit destined for Londons hungry
Cambridgeshire fruitgrowers awarded city Harvest Sustainability prize for their quality surplus. City Harvest partner Newling Fruitgrowers Ltd was recently awarded with City Harvest London's green plaque to recognise the fruitgrowers' commitment to sustainability by...
Addleshaw Goddard versus Holiday Hunger
City Law firm Addleshaw Goddard's meal project helps to alleviate Holiday Hunger with City Harvest in London this Summer. Solidarity and unity were benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic. Common crisis allowed companies, and individuals, to step up and contribute to the...
Charity Spotlight: Hornbeam Community Cafe
Community Cafe in Walthamstow distributes life-changing City harvest food The Hornbeam Community Café, Walthamstow, is a vibrant, “pay how you feel” café catering for vulnerable people in the local area with hot, plant-based meals and distributing free grocery packs...
Corporate Volunteering at City Harvest
Why volunteering with us is a great way to engage your company in positive social impact. As of Monday 19th July, City Harvest re-opens its Corporate Volunteering Programme, welcoming teams of varying sizes who are looking to fulfil volunteer days with fun and...
Prince of Wales awards City Harvest co-founder, Laura Winningham, with OBE
14 July 2021 - City Harvest's Laura Winningham is awarded an OBE by HRH Prince of Wales at a St James's Palace investiture for her service to the London community, as co-founder of food redistribution charity. Steve Winningham, City Harvest co-founder and vice chair,...
Wimbledon 2021 welcomes City Harvest
We've come a long way! This year's Wimbledon Championships looked a little different to last year's as the Southwest London landmark re-opened its doors the public and to some of the City Harvest team. July 2020 saw Wimbledon's grounds and kitchen mobilise into a...
City Harvest Volunteer Everests in aid of London Food Charity
Super Keith A key member of the City Harvest London volunteer family, Keith Lawrence, "Everested" a hill in Highgate, North London, to raise funds and awareness for City Harvest on Saturday 19 June. During his 12-hour cycle, Keith accumulated the vertical elevation of...
Nango’s Free: City Harvest Vans for Nans
This June, City Harvest is delighted to be part of Nando’s Nango’s Free, campaign.This June, City Harvest is delighted to be part of Nando’s Nango’s Free, campaign. Nango’s invites nans throughout the UK to dine for free at Nando’s restaurants between 7-9th June....
World Hunger Day: City Harvest speaks to Nadeen Haidar
TEDxNHS speaker, Nadeen Haidar, talks food poverty in London and how to solve it Covid-19 has exposed one of the least talked about issues in the UK; food poverty. It is now very much part of our social narrative, accepted as a problem that can strike anyone – not...
Charity Spotlight: Gibbs Green Community Champions
Gibbs Green Tenants Hall houses the weekly food distribution run by Gibbs Green Community Champions, lead by project manager, Sara Benjamin and the rest of the Community Champions. Alwyn, their City Harvest driver is also considered a community ‘champion’ as he has...
Charity Spotlight: Dads House & Solidarity Sports
A team of Dads are the food heroes of their Fulham community William McGranaghan set up Dad's House 12 years ago to provide a safe space for dad's to be dads. Originally founded to "help single dads with the practicalities of raising their children alone", it soon...
Volunteer Week at City Harvest London
Our volunteers keep City Harvest alive and London fedHere at City Harvest, we love to celebrate our wonderful volunteers! There are so many ways in which we invite our volunteers to get involved with us to help in our mission to fight food poverty and food waste. Not...
NATHAN BOWEN & HARRY BLACKMORE x CITY HARVEST
City Harvest is part of the fabric of London.Our staff, drivers, recipients and food donors, weave wonderfully together, creating a support net, to help raise Londoners up. What better way to celebrate our new depot's white walls, than with 2 epic London artists, a...
SHUBY ART x CITY HARVEST
Carmen Miranda Paste up Installation in City Harvest Volunteer KitchenShuby's 'Carmen Miranda' paste-up print provokes instant smiles and what better decor for our new City Harvest staff/ volunteer kitchen. Shuby's trademark banana couldn't be more relevant, with...
Food Waste Action Week: Black+Blum x City Harvest
City Harvest partners with sustainable lifestyle brand Black & Blum for Food Waste Action Week This Food Waste Action Week, we are so excited to be partnering with sustainable lifestyle brand, Black+Blum, for the launch of its fabulous new recipe book: Let’s Do...
British Photographer and City Harvest Friend, Mary McCartney Supports City Harvest’s Lockdown Love
Lockdown Love asks Londoners to Share the Love & help feed London Mary McCartney says: “City Harvest is close to my heart, as when I was filming the first season of my cooking show we were able to team up to ensure any extra food was collected at the end of the...
City Food Lecture 2021 – Panelist, Laura Winningham
Discussing the future of technology in Food, and how people can help make responsible decisions 10 February 2021 - City Harvest CEO, Laura Winningham OBE, is delighted to join this year's City Food Lecture panel, hosted by BBC journalist, Charlotte Smith. The Panel...
Xcess: The Independent Food Redistribution Network
The UK's biggest independent social redistributors team up in a new movement against food surplus, waste and food poverty On January 29th, representatives from the UK's biggest independent food surplus redistribution organisations announced the formation of Xcess: The...
The Rocas Brothers x City Harvest London
Joan Rocas talks to us about LockdownJanuary 2020, we were lucky to spend time filming with Joan Rocas, as part of The Macallan's Amazon Prime episode, 'Distil London'. Joan, cooked alongside Buses4homeless resident, Kev, with food from a City Harvest delivery. City...
New Spitalfields Depot
City Harvest's East london site feeds some of london's most vulnerable communities. Our East London superstars based at New Spitalfields Market are championing the City Harvest mission by distributing high-quality, surplus food to thousands of people in need across...
Laura Winningham receives an OBE
Heroes of the Pandemic Celebrated in Queens Birthday Honours for 'selfless' actions City Harvest could not be more delighted that Laura's, and the whole team's work has been recognized in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list. The awareness raised around poverty,...
Warner Media & Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden Help City Harvest Scale-Up & feed 40,000 Hungry Londoners
When Covid-19 forced London into Lockdown, WarnerMedia and Warner Bros. Studios helped City Harvest scale up our response in a time of extreme need, and that support enabled City Harvest to deliver food for 40,000 meals to hungry Londoners. City Harvest works with...
Goodwood Races & Levy Donate 500 Hampers to City Harvest
Last minute cancellations created surplus food which fed the hungry Goodwood Races and its catering partner Levy UK, the UK’s leading sports and events business, have donated 500 food hampers to City Harvest, London’s first food redistribution charity, which rescues...
Charity Spotlight: Carney’s Community Fights Covid
Gives young people in Battersea the opportunity to get fit, learn new skills and hang out in a safe and nurturing environmentCarney's gym and community centre in Petworth street, Battersea, offers young people between the ages of 11-25 the opportunity to get fit,...
Wimbledon serves food not tennis on the first day of The Championships
Collecting the 5,000th meal from The All England Lawn Tennis Club’s Wingfield Kitchen for London's Hungry City Harvest collected the 5,000th meal from The All England Lawn Tennis Club today, on what should have been the first day of The Championships, Wimbledon. The...
Crystal Palace FC Kitchen serves 10,000 meals to the local community
In partnership with City Harvest More than 10,000 nutritious meals have now been prepared by Crystal Palace FC chefs at Selhurst Park and delivered to those in need across south London during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Palace Kitchen is a partnership between Crystal...
Remembering Grenfell ?
A day London will never forget 14th June 2017 R.I.P to those who lost their lives - we remember you. City Harvest driver, Moe Gentle's memory of the dayWaking up on 14th June 2017, a day I will never forget. My daily routine of getting ready for work then turning on...
BBC Earth – Regeneration: Food – Waste
Featuring interview with Laura Winningham, CEO City Harvest BBC Earth's Regeneration food series looks at the environmental impact our food choices and habits have on our planet. Max speaks to game changers who are steering us as consumers and businesses, in new,...
Wimbledon’s Kitchen to Serve 200 Meals a Week
City Harvest delivering meals to Londoners in need The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) progressed its collective efforts to support the local community in its recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with the opening of the Wingfield kitchen to prepare...
City Harvest Iris Goldsmith Award
Celebrating Young People Fighting Food Waste June 2020 is the first year of the City Harvest Iris Goldsmith Awards, celebrating young people fighting food waste. The award is in memory of Iris, who at age 15 volunteered at City Harvest and understood the importance of...
The Savoy x City Harvest
Cooking Meals to Support Vulnerable Communities in London 6th May 2020, In a fantastic new collaboration, The Savoy is working with us to provide hundreds of meals each week to vulnerable communities in London, which City Harvest will distribute to those facing food...
Queen’s Park Rangers Supports Local Food Charity City Harvest
QPR Ambassador Andy Sinton appeal to Help Feed London’s families QPR partnered with City Harvest earlier this year, but events were quickly curtailed by the onset of Covid-19. In-light of City Harvest’s immediate need to fundraise, QPR ambassador, Andy Sinton has...
Crystal Palace FC Teams up with City Harvest
TO FEED FRONTLINE NHS STAFF & FAMILIES IN NEED A new initiative announced today sees Crystal Palace Football Club chefs creating healthy meals for frontline NHS staff, families and vulnerable people in south London, in a unique partnership with food surplus...
Holiday Hunger is now Lockdown Hunger
Earth Day celebrates Londoners working together to save livesTo celebrate Earth Day we are looking at what we are doing to help London right now. More and more, we are seeing that small acts of kindness go a very long way.Reducing greenhouse gases: Since lockdown...
Honest Burgers x City Harvest
How Honest decided to give back to London in a massive waySince closing their restaurants, Honest Burgers decided to repurpose their quality ingredients into delicious single serving meals to feed NHS workers on the front line, and by joining forces with City Harvest...
City Harvest is on the Front Line During the COVID-19 Emergency
Continuing to rescue & deliver food to London's most vulnerableOur vans are still on the road, City Harvest is feeding London's most vulnerable in times of crisis.WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELPCity Harvest, a surplus food redistribution charity, is currently working...
City Harvest & By Word of Mouth Partnership
Charity canapes added to event menus to fundraise for City Harvest City Harvest is delighted to announce its partnership with By Word of Mouth, a leading event caterer. Two mouth watering City Harvest canapes will be featured on By Word Of Mouth’s 2020 event menus...
Metallica Helps City Harvest London Tackle Food Poverty
City Harvest London was delighted to receive a cheque for £24,000 from Metallica at their Twickenham concert, Thursday 20 June 2019. Metallica’s charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, photographed band members Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo and City...