4th April
25th February 2025, 3.30-5.00pm – Pathways from Poverty – Offering Expert Advice Services within Community Food Projects - You can sign up to attend or receive a copy of the recording here.
13th March 2025, 3.30-5.00pm – The Children’s Kitchen Webinar: Making Food Sessions Accessible. This session forms part of our series with The Children's Kitchen and will focus on making food sessions accessible for all children, especially those with special educational needs and disabilities or dietary requirements. - You can sign up to attend or receive a copy of the recording here.
18th March 2025, 3.30-5.00pm - Cooperation Town: An Introduction to Affordable Food Co-ops This webinar will be hosted with Cooperation Town to give an overview of their model. - You can sign up to attend or receive a copy of the recording here.
Partners can also view the recording of the webinars that have already taken place, please see below.
Webinar Recordings:
If you missed our most recent webinars, you can watch the recordings below. Please feel free to share these with anyone you think might find them useful.
An Introduction to The Alliance for Dignified Food Support and their Dignity Toolkit (28th Nov). You can view a recording of the session here.
Purchasing Discounted Food Supplies through Ankose CIC (14th Jan). – You can view a recording of the session here.
Participating in Feeding Britain's Research on the Impact of Affordable Food Clubs (15th Jan). – You can view a recording of the session here.
What next for our food bank? Reducing dependence on emergency food provision and developing affordable food models (23rd Jan). - You can view a recording of the session here.
Food Supplies for Affordable Food Clubs (29th Jan). - You can view a recording of the session here.
Could you also include updated Price List and Suppliers.
Ankose CIC – Updated Price Lists and Suppliers: Ankose CIC are negotiating discounted rates with food suppliers for projects in the Feeding Britain network. You can view the price lists here.
The latest list of suppliers is:
• *Updated* Dairy, eggs and bread through KDC Freshways: Delivery across England, Wales and Scotland. Minimum order £70 per week. Range now includes bread and eggs.
• Wholesale through SOS Wholesale: Minimum order is 1 mixed pallet, you can order as many pallets as you like. Delivery across the whole of the UK.
• Morrisons own label range through SOS Wholesale: You can mix orders with the SOS Wholesale catalogue. The minimum order quantity per item is one layer (the number of cases per layer is listed on the price list). The total minimum order quantity is one pallet of items. There is a lead time for orders on this range of 2 weeks. Delivery across the whole of the UK (free to Scotland, Wales and England, a charge for delivery to Northern Ireland).
• *Updated* Fruit and veg through Nationwide Produce: Prices are fixed on a monthly basis. The pricing is based on ordering a mixed pallet, delivery is free.
• *Updated* UHT juice through Mulrines: Minimum order 1 mixed pallet. Delivery to anywhere in the UK.
• Herbs and spices through Green Cuisine: Minimum order 10-15 cases (1 case would have 48 small boxes in it, which are packed in trays of 6 with 8 trays of 6 in a case).
• Meat: Delivery across England. Minimum order is 1 pallet. The minimum order quantity for Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire will be smaller as the supplier can deliver in their own vans.
• Ready meals from Wildly Tasty: Minimum order value £150, no delivery charge.
• Suma Foods: Good range of vegetarian, free-from, gluten free, organic and vegan, and some Kosher and Halal lines. They can deliver to the whole of the UK, in most areas they deliver on their own vehicles but in Northern Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Wight deliveries will be covered by a carrier.
• Eggs: Price £1.50 per dozen small barn eggs. Minimum order of 15 dozen. East Anglia only.
If you would like to start placing orders with any suppliers, please email Rose (rose.bray@feedingbritain.org) and confirm:
- Which suppliers you would like to order from (eg Wholesale, fruit and veg etc)
- Name for delivery
- Email address for delivery
- Phone number for delivery
- Delivery address
In Kind Direct Holiday Club Resources: Those of you running holiday programmes this year may be interested in joining In Kind Direct’s charitable network in order to spend less on supplies and activities. They can provide access to games, outdoor activities, arts and crafts materials, stationery, and personal hygiene items. You can register for free here and you can find out more about In Kind Direct in this recording of our introductory webinar with them.