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Each week, members can access low cost shopping including fresh fruit and veg, chilled essentials and cupboard staples, helping households stretch budgets further while eating well. Working through more than 150 community hubs across England, the organisation redistributes the equivalent of over 400,000 meals every week, helping to build stronger, healthier and more connected communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1611856720633-QL1VYX8W4UMUR1USN5AE/xcess-logo.jpg Members City Harvest is London's leading food rescue charity. We rescue nutritious, surplus food from businesses and redistributes over 1.2 million meals per month to over 375 charity partners who feed those unable to afford or access meals. By providing a reliable lifeline and eliminating the cost of food for its charity partners, City Harvest enables them to stretch their budgets to offer other vital services. Our network stretches across the UK, through Xcess we ensure that no food goes to waste, sharing with our partners large donations, we believe it is our responsibility to help and support charities with similar objectives to ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1611572548836-NLMELFPD8ZECJSA8QL5Q/Food+Works_CMYK_Apple.png Members Food Works, Sheffield: Food Works repurposes surplus food into meals and grocery boxes to make sustainable food accessible to all in Sheffield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/2b329794-410e-4d42-91d0-9eb1f9ac85b8/Copy+of+OFH+logo+small.jpeg Members Oxford Food Hub is at the centre of surplus food redistribution in Oxfordshire, providing food to more than 250 charities and community groups. In 2025, the organisation redistributed 641 tonnes of produce to local charities and community projects. Its vision is to be the surplus food partner of choice for Oxfordshire food producers, distributors, retailers and community organisations, sharing surplus and reducing waste. Its mission is to minimise food waste by rescuing surplus food from producers and retailers, reducing carbon emissions and protecting the environment, while supporting communities through the redistribution of free food to charities and local projects across Oxfordshire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/6f159438-4d0b-4049-829a-96bd3ca8141b/The+Big+Food+Project+Rebrand+-+5.png Members The BIG FOOD Project, formerly known as Blackpool Food Bank, is a surplus food redistribution organisation serving more than 100 community organisations across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The project rescues and repurposes surplus food, helping provide more than 75,000 meals each month to families struggling to make ends meet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1611584814149-Z3DUUMHCNPDHG9715M71/Copy+of+Xcess.jpg Members Eggcup, Lancaster: Eggcup runs an affordable food scheme for its membership through its Community Food Outlets. It also partners with a local HE college to create frozen ready meals for vulnerable people across the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1611603064231-DFRVNQ15GFSFW9CSQ6GJ/Copy+of+Copy+of+Copy+of+Xcess.jpg Members Food Cycle: Works to reduce food poverty and loneliness by turning surplus food in to nutritious community meals, all over the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1611842554317-K4MSU8ZSWAQIHDGD2AHH/Copy+of+Copy+of+Xcess+%281%29.jpg Members HIS Church: HIS Church is an emergency goods redistribution charity, focused on providing food and supplies to those who need it most. Before the pandemic, it distributed on average just over 50,000 meals a week. It is currently distributing 200,000 across a network of 15,000 charities and the demand is growing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1611593030795-24Q6SKLZ9BN79NSZIMA8/OpenKitchen_email_logo.png Members Open Kitchen MCR: Manchester’s leading conscious caterer using its profits to create nutritious healthy meals for individuals and families in crisis, currently delivering over 1,300 meals a week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1611309160626-CQNCDRF8QO0MLHSX7XZE/Square+Logo+with+Tagline.jpg Members UK Harvest: UK Harvest delivers education programmes alongside its food redistribution operations across the south coast of England and London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/992a9e07-9fea-48cc-9a99-b7fdb3299d5c/Not+Just+logo.png Members NotJUST Surplus Project is an independent community surplus redistribution organisation based in Telford, Shropshire, working to reduce food waste, tackle food insecurity and strengthen communities through a dignity driven approach. Formerly known as Food Share Project, NotJUST rescues and redistributes more than 500 tonnes of edible surplus food each year, supporting thousands of families every month while preventing good food from going to waste. Through its surplus hub, community group network, mobile pantry services and Mary-Pop-Ups, NotJUST takes affordable food directly into communities across Telford and Shropshire, helping improve access for people facing barriers around transport, affordability or stigma. NotJUST believes surplus food should be part of the climate solution, not treated as waste, and that no good food should go to waste while people go without. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/d65239e2-c872-4bf2-9928-6fd7d049ebc6/c810094a-dd0c-4b8c-8629-05edfdec5467.jpg Members Dr Megan Blake is a geographer and leading expert on household food security and community resilience in economically wealthy contexts at the University of Sheffield. With more than 20 years of experience, her research works across households, community organisations, charities, industry, and government to understand and address the social determinants of food insecurity and poverty. She uses participatory, qualitative, and quantitative methods to generate stakeholder-informed research with real-world impact. Her Food Ladders framework is now used by local authorities, third-sector organisations, and policy makers in the UK and internationally to design and evaluate responses to food insecurity at the local scale. Her work has informed parliamentary inquiries, APPGs, and UN Rapporteur hearings, and has been featured widely across national and international media, including the BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, Bloomberg News, and NPR. Dr Blake is an academic advisor to Feeding Britain and to the XCess surplus food redistribution network. https://www.xcess.org.uk/home daily 1.0 2021-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1610969324468-R3BFK7GELJWX5K4I03ON/image-asset.jpeg Home - The Xcess Network Find out about our mission and methods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000546841e64f18218e0e51/1610969610601-Z9CCDWFU93P3EBGL5F4W/image-asset.jpeg Home - Donate surplus Ready to take the next step? Find our how your business can donate surplus food here. https://www.xcess.org.uk/take-action daily 0.75 2025-05-12