Tag: Hubbub

Hubbub marks three years of Food Connect

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub is marking three years of Food Connect, a food redistribution service that works with businesses to deliver good quality surplus food to community fridges and groups to share.  Since its launch in 2020, more than 1,000 tonnes of food have been redistributed through the service across Milton Keynes and London, the equivalent of over 2.5 million meals. Hubbub set up Food Connect to create a simpler donation experience for food businesses and to share the small amounts of surplus that often go to waste to local community…

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Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub join forces with TV’s George Clarke on the Time After Time fund to award £500,000 to the UK’s best eco projects

Stuart Mitchell

Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub have joined forces with TV presenter and environmentalist, George Clarke, to find the UK’s most innovative eco projects – with a share of £500,000 available for initiatives which tackle both electronic waste and support digital inclusion. George, star of hit TV shows, ‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’ and ‘Restoration Man’ will help select the winners of the 2023 Time After Time fund where grants from £25,000 up to £100,000 will be awarded to a variety of organisations including community groups, charities and social enterprises. The Time…

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Cup Movement® – a new reusable cups scheme arrives in the Highlands

Stuart Mitchell

Around 200 million single use cups are used and discarded in Scotland every year.  Only 4% of these are recycled.  Something needs to change. So, today, Thursday 20 April 2023, at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, an innovative new reusable cup scheme, Cup Movement® in the Highlands, was launched by environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful. A recent survey highlighted that 81% of people in the Highlands thought takeaway venues needed to do more to make it easier for people to buy and use reusable cups if they wanted to…

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Community Fridges to go beyond food redistribution with funding boost

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub is broadening the impact of the Community Fridge Network, through food hub funding which will help local residents to learn new food and growing skills and connect with their neighbours. Last year, with support from the Rothschild Foundation, Hubbub piloted food hubs at 14 community fridges. Participants reported adopting a more varied diet, discovering new recipes and feeling more connected to their local community. Following the pilot, 50 more community fridges were awarded food hub funding with support from Co-op and the Starbucks Foundation. Starbucks has committed…

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Dunelm Launches North West Trial Of Homeware Donation Initiative ‘Home To Home

Stuart Mitchell

Dunelm, the UK’s leading homewares retailer, has launched a trial across its 18 North West stores that will allow customers to donate pre-loved homeware items from any retailer, to be redistributed to local charities and community groups in the region. Launched in the midst of Britain’s cost of living crisis, the scheme will enable customers to reduce household clutter without sending items to landfill, while benefitting those in their local communities who may otherwise go without essential homewares. It is estimated 69.9 million homeware items are thrown away in the…

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