Green Gown Awards 2021: Campus Health, Food and Drink - University of Nottingham - Finalist

Enactus Nottingham - Foodprint

Foodprint, Nottingham’s first social supermarket, was established in 2017 by a group of Enactus Nottingham members, all students at the University of Nottingham. We sell surplus supermarket food, which is still perfectly good to eat, at a 60% discount from the supermarket price. We are supported by our supply partners Fareshare and Neighbourly who together with a network of supermarkets such as Co-Op, Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys, Spar, and more, we are able to stock our shop with food which would otherwise go to landfill.

In the past year alone, we have prevented over 30 tonnes of food from going to landfill and have prevented 96 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Alongside this, we run projects such as Foodprint on Wheels, bringing affordable food to Nottingham’s elderly and isolated communities, and supplying school breakfast clubs in partnership with Hovis.

Top 3 learnings:

• Food poverty and food wastage must never coexist, it is our mission to rectify this.
• We work best as a collaborative community, bringing together students and local people.
• We recognise the value of providing for the local community and preventing unnecessary waste.

Videos

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