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Second Harvest Food Rescue
A woman in her sixties in a knitted cardigan at a long table in a Bristol community kitchen, a bowl of hot vegetable stew and bread in front of her, smiling at the camera in warm afternoon light

Bristol's food rescue charity

Every £10 rescues enough food for 25 meals in Bristol

That food feeds people at community kitchens, children at school and families who rely on food banks, right across the city.

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£10 rescues and delivers enough surplus food for 25 meals.

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Second Harvest in numbers

Rescued food, on tables across Bristol

We collect surplus food from Bristol's supermarkets and farms, sort it at our St Philips warehouse and deliver it to community kitchens, schools and food banks across the city.

1,200,000+

Meals' worth of food rescued so far

25

Meals rescued and delivered for every £10

Since 2019

Rescuing surplus food across Bristol

From one of our monthly givers

I give £10 every month and sort crates at the St Philips warehouse on Saturdays. I've seen veg, bread and yoghurt the supermarkets couldn't sell leave at nine and turn into a hot lunch in Easton by noon.
Hannah P.Gives monthly and volunteers, Bedminster
Volunteers in hi-vis vests unloading crates of fresh vegetables and bread from a van outside a Bristol community kitchen on a bright morning

Second Harvest Food Rescue, St Philips, Bristol

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