We have a new community Since before Tummies Not Trash had even applied to be a charity, our collectors had communicated largely via WhatsApp groups. This seemed like a natural and easy way to communicate, especially when you turned up to a collection to discover waaaaay more food than you could carry or distribute and […]
Our very first issue of the Tummies Not Trash news is now here! There lots of things still to tell you band we look forward to letting you know all about them in future issues.
If you are familiar with Tummies Not Trash you’ll know that all year around we save lots of bread, pastries and fruit & veg. Every week a considerable amount of this is distributed through our sharing shelves and breakfast clubs at local schools. When the schools go on holidays, that food then has to our […]
In building our community relationships we have been put in touch with a number of organisations whose communities benefit from free food. While Tummies Not Trash’s primary objective is to save food from going to landfill, In a world where hunger and food waste coexist, finding innovative solutions to bridge the gap between surplus food […]
In April, we were delighted to be awarded funds from the West Edinburgh neighbourhood network, part of the city of Edinburgh council, in order to provide training materials and support in recruiting more volunteers to help us in our plight to reduce food waste. We are delighted that a small, very new charity, such as […]
No, we haven’t gone political! We’re fundraising, and this time around, we are relying on the public vote! (it’s free, only takes a few minutes, and you vote for 5 projects so you can do a lot of good with your 5 votes!) City of Edinburgh Council have launched a £100,000 Community Climate fund for […]
It feels like ages since we hit the submit button on our application to OSCR. (the office of the Scottish Charity Regulator) But today we got the good news that we have been waiting on, we have now been confirmed with charitable status. We are listed as an SCIO, a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation, which […]
We were delighted to partner with Firrhill High School during the summer term of 2022 and continue throughout the terms since. The teachers at the schools set up the breakfast club to provide a breakfast for children at the school who want one and had been providing the items themselves. After finding out about food […]
We were first put in touch with the Murrayfield Club (previously the Murrayfield dementia project) in the spring of 2022 as an outlet to distribute flowers to. We had been donated lots of seasonal flower bouquets and while not food, we couldn’t bear to leave them to be thrown away when we knew they could […]
Word of our neighbourhood food saving project spread and in spring of 2022, after chatting to one of the school staff about our work, we were thrilled that Balgreen staff, kids and parents were keen to get involved. We met with the headteacher, Mr Napier, and got the ball rolling straight away. Historically we have […]
