M&S Leeds Moortown

Rethink Food is an award winning non-profit organisation recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 social enterprises in the NatWest SE100 Index 2025...on a mission to create a generation of healthy, food-literate, and environmentally conscious young people. We intercept and make sense of food surplus. Educate and empower people to live food secure lives. Redistributing to primary schools, families and those that need it. We also offer education to make the food system fair and sustainable.

Based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Leeds Central SDA Church, has a Foodbank Soup and More Foodbank & Community Kitchen. The area of Little London and Woodhouse where the church and Foodbank is located is a multi cultural area, made up of families and a large population of international students. No referrals are necessary everyone in need is welcome to attend. Food parcels are free. Food donations from Marks and Spencer are used to provide food parcels and prepare soup and hot meals for the community to eat in or takeaway. The opening times for Soup and More each week are as follows: Wednesday 3-5pm Saturday 1-2pm for Emergency Food Parcels and a hot meal is also available on request. The Foodbank also supports a number of community groups and hostels in our area to ensure that no food is wasted Our team of volunteers have Level 2 Food Hygiene certificates and support the work of the Foodbank , providing a range of additional services, and referrals to other mainstream providers.

We are a local group of volunteers providing the people of North Leeds with all sorts of groups, events or basically whatever they need to help them with life. We require volunteers, helpers, any items that can assist us do what we do. As a charity we run numerous groups for the local community including a stay and play session, fitness classes to name a few. We also do community projects and hold events throughout the year. The surplus will be used at the groups and also as part of the food exchange programme where members of the community use the food and create meals and then pass on their excess to other residents.....it is a unique idea but we find it is well recieved.