M&S Leeds White Rose

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.

ln August 2007, ECE recieved a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of 300,000 members of the IYF (International Youth Fellowship) for our contribution to the UK branch. In September 2008, Esther Community Enterprise was awarded certificates from the Lord Mayor of Croydon, for having carried out 100 hours of volunteering activities. On the 2 June 2011, ECE was awarded with theQueens Award for Voluntary Service, MBE. This is the highest award given to voluntary groups in the United Kingdom, and as such, is equivalent in status to the MBE. This prestigious UK National Honour recognises outstanding voluntary contributions and sets the national benchmark for excellence in volunteering, with the work of those awarded being judged to be of the highest standard. We aim to meet those who have needs in the local community by redistribution of food and other consumables donated from retailers. ECE makes a worthwhile collective response to the 3 tenets of sustainable development, namely social, economical and environmental needs. ECE forms a consortium with other charities, faith groups, projects and organisations. We have over 70 Project Co-ordinators. They manage and help to distribute the food/groceries and clothing items within the local communities across the UK, on behalf of ECE. We have sustained our social enterprise through the goodwill and hard work of over 400 drivers and countless volunteers, who contribute their time, transportation and finance to this worthy cause. Near sell by date food is collected on a daily basis from a range of supermarkets and other retailers and diverted to those that need it most ECE feeds in excess of 40,000 people per week and this is steadily on the increase as we expand across the UK

Bramley Care Bears is a volunteer run community set up in October 2019 in Bramley, West Leeds. We aim to develop a real sense of community spirit, trust and support across our area. Our services are all run by local volunteers living in Bramley and includes: Garden Makeovers, Bramley Food Bank, Homework Club, Woodworking shop, Litter picking events, Sports Activities and Tech buddies. In Bramley the number of children achieving a good standard of early years development is 13% less than the national average, key stage 2 11% less and key stage 4/GCSE 14%. Also in Bramley less than 1 in 3 children achieve a good mark in Marks and English at GCSE compared to nearly 1 in 2 nationally. In Leeds 4% of the population rely on foodbanks to feed their families, this is double the nation average. Around 35 percent of people living in Leeds, Who took part in a recent survey, said they are regularly borrowing money to cover costs of food. We are feeding at least 55 to 60 families every week. On a Friday at Broadlea Community Centre we have our food bank from 11am until 12pm, on a Sunday 11am until 12pm. We have grown so much in the couple of years going, thank you to Neighbourly for supporting us on our journey. Anyone who wishes to know more about us please contact Angela McConnell BEM 07805225270