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THE GIVING CHALLENGE PRIZES: WASTE REDUCTION CHALLENGE
PROJECT NAME ORGANISATION /GROUP
BRIXTON PEOPLE’S KITCHEN BRIXTON PEOPLE’S KITCHEN brixtonpk.wordpress.com
Brixton People’s Kitchen (BPK) turns food surplus from local businesses into free, healthy meals for local people. For the piloting phase they invited local people to design and build a mobile kitchen that travelled throughout the diverse communities in Brixton and beyond, to inspire positive action against food waste by acting as an open, convivial platform for food education, community building and skills–sharing.
Innovation BPK innovation lies in not just tackling business waste by receiving products from local businesses, but also in enabling people to apply new skills and behaviours to reduce their household waste, and to take ownership of the project within their own communities and organisations.
Impact • In total 719.9 kg of food was collected for use by the Brixton People’s Kitchen. • Overall this resulted in a net saving of 1,979kg CO2 eq. (1.97 tonnes of CO2 eq). • 135 volunteers. • 758 hours volunteers. • 657 meals served.
The food hygiene certificate was definitely an extra motivation for some of the parents who have been looking for a job for a while. Host
