Foodshare Postings
Foodshare Wins Environmental Award!
BREAKING NEWS – Foodshare wins Environment Award. We would like to recognise today the work of Penney Poyzer-Schalom (left), Shona Munroe (right), Tracey Lloyd and all the other visionaries, spade-diggers and big hearts in Nottinghamshire who have taken Foodshare to new heights throughout schools & colleges from primary right through to university level. The work […]
Morrisons Give Bumper Crop of 10,000 Let’s Grow Vouchers For Edwalton Primary School’s Foodshare Garden
Morrisons supermarket has teamed up with multi award winning Edwalton Primary school and FOODSHARE – a charity that helps people to grow food to give to others – to launch the school’s FLAGSHIP FOODSHARE allotment with a bumper crop of 10,000 Let’s Grow vouchers. On Wednesday 16 July, 10.30am Morrisons will present the school with […]
Our Global Vision: A Foodshare Bed in Every School
Join us in making our global vision a reality. Every school child learning how to grow food in school and “Growing to Give” – sowing, tending, harvesting and donating local, fresh produce to those in need in their community. From homeless shelters to children hospice, care homes to drop-in centres, the Foodshare movement joins schools with […]
Ipswich School: A Fantastic Foodshare Case Study
Alex Johnson, a sixth-former at Ipswich School, looks at how the project has developed there. Even a Muntjac deer destroying the brand new greenhouse didn’t stop Ipswich School pupils’ enthusiasm and determination for their Foodshare project, which has run at the independent school in Suffolk for two years. “We wanted to give growers the opportunity […]
Foodshare Welcomes Girlguiding UK
Welcome to Foodshare! You have probably read about Foodshare in the Volunteering section of your new “Together We Can” Book. We are delighted that you are ready to get your wellies on for Foodshare to help produce fresh produce to local charities as well as helping the environment. This special Foodshare Girlguiding section will give […]
Girlguides Promote Foodshare
Girlguiding UK (The Guides Association) have launched their new “Together We Can” book and are recommending Guides to volunteer and get their wellies on for Foodshare! We are very excited to be working with the Girlguides and have a special Foodshare Girlguides area set up on the Foodshare web site. You can find out more here: […]
Welcome to Foodshare!
What is Foodshare? Foodshare is an international not-for-profit, volunteer-powered charity where growers (schools, allotments and kitchen gardeners) partner with and donate food to local charities. Our vision is for every school to have a Foodshare Bed and for allotment holders, community and kitchen gardeners to grow a little extra and share their surpluses with a […]
Jimmys Homessless Shelter says “Thank You”
Jimmy’s Homless Shelter says a big ‘Thank You’ to the pupils of Foodshare School Milton Primary for their freshely made soup. To read more about coverage of Foodshare on the TV, Radio and in the Press, please take a look at Foodshare in the News. Tweet This Post
Foodshare Hits National News Headlines
Foodshare’s latest project the “Grow-Cook-Share” Day has made the front page of the BBC News website this evening. Find out about the wonderful day Milton Primary (the first school to sign up as a Foodshare School) had when they harvested their vegetables and learnt how to turn them into a tasty soup to feed 30 homeless people. […]
Calling all Philanthropists – Join The Foodshare 50
“A wonderful scheme,” Prince Charles “A fantastic idea!” Gardeners’ Question Time, Radio 4 Are you passionate about food growing and the environment? Do you believe that every child should have access to a growing space at school to learn how to grow and appreciate the real value food? Do you believe in nurturing the caring, […]
