. . . and learn how your church could be part of the ‘Real Junk Food Project’
Experience Bishop Paul Slater's cooking at a pay-as-you-feel event in Leeds on 22 November.
The Real Junk Food Café at All Hallows', Leeds is part of a network of cafés which use donated supermarket and restaurant food that would otherwise go to landfill. They then prepare meals for customers who pay what they feel able to – either with money or volunteering time.
Vicar, the Revd Heston Groenewald (right), says, “The Real Junk Food Project has been a MASSIVE blessing here and a huge opportunity in terms of outreach, justice, hospitality, community-building, mental health and more.
“TRJFP have come to realise the Church's potential for distributing the huge quantity of 'waste' food (which is perfectly edible), and they’d love to partner with every church in Yorkshire!
“To taste and see whether partnership might work in your church, please come and be wined and dined on 
Tuesday 22 November. All Hallows are hosting a 'Bishop’s Bistro' when Adam Smith (TRJFP founder) and hot shot chef Bishop Paul Slater (right) team up to create a real junk food menu at a pay-as-you-feel evening. And Adam would love to talk about partnering - in big and small ways - with as many churches as possible. (It could be a full blown cafe or a small tea and cake shop.)
Please book here and/or contact Heston the vicar:
Heston adds, “All Hallows have been working with TRJFP for two years. It's helped create a welcoming community space - and a pastoral opportunity on many levels. We've also saved 9+ tons(!) of food from the dustbin and it's been calculated that every £1 invested in the cafe has generated £15 in social return.
“We’d love to share our experience with everyone who’s interested, and to offer support to the Junk Food Network staff, none of whom are Christian.”
The café has recently featured in the Guardian here, and on BBC’s Songs of Praise. Facebook page here. And more here.