Good Food Oxfordshire Network
If your business, organisation or group produces, supplies or uses local and sustainable food, shares the values of the Oxfordshire Good Food Charter and is taking steps to work towards a better food system for Oxfordshire, you can sign the Charter and be listed here as a Good Food Oxfordshire Network member.
Joining our network is free, and all you need to do is sign the Charter with a pledge around what you are doing, or are planning to do, to support the vision of the Charter and contribute to a better food system for all in Oxfordshire. To get some inspiration, you can view the pledges our existing members have made here. And please email us for any further information.
Elegant Cuisine
GFO Network Member
None
Details
The Courtyard, Kingston Bagpuize House, Abingon, OX13 5AX
Bayley Eyley
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Description
Elegant Cuisine are an external event catering company dedicated to using local, seasonal produce to create sensational menus all year round.
GFO Charter Pledge
We uphold very high standards for sourcing our foods locally, reducing transportation miles and food waste. We believe wherever possible our impact on this world should be kept to a minimum, delivering fine fresh foods should not come at the expense of our world and therefore we pledge to continue our efforts to work with local farmers and reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible.
Fairtrade at St Michaels
GFO Network Member
None
Details
The Basement, St Michaels at the North Gate, Cornmarket Street, OX1 3EY
Feng Ho
01865 722505
Description
Fairtrade at St Michaels â for one-stop fair trade shopping in the heart of Oxford
For beautiful, unusual gifts and handmade cards to go with them; for design-led jewellery and scarves and bags: for soap and stationery, toys and textiles, mugs and mobiles, bowls and baskets and LOTS of delicious food.
GFO Charter Pledge
Coming Soon!
Faringdon Food Bank
Community Food Service
None
Details
Faringdon Town Council, Market Place SN7 7HL
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01367 243065
Description
Emergency food parcels of dried and ambient food on Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10.00-12.00.
Free (referral needed)
The food bank is open as normal on Monday and Wednesday 10 am to 12 pm in the Pump House. The building is locked so you need to call ahead. 07548 535855. Please leave a message or text as this number is monitored during opening hours only.
The Faringdon Food bank is aimed at supporting people who are in financial crisis and will be open on Friday mornings as well as Monday and Wednesday mornings from 10am to 12pm in the Town Council Offices, 5 Market Place, Pump House SN7 7HL.
Your local food bank works with referral agencies to issue food vouchers to those in need of food. The food bank provides emergency food on presentation of a voucher. You can get a referral voucher from your school, doctor, health visitor, advice service, children’s centre, local church, social worker, CAB, CAP, Housing Associations or any agency that is giving you support.
If you need a referral contact us on faringdonfb@gmail.com or call 07548 535855 during opening hours Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10am to 12pm
If you need support, please contact:
Citizens Advice 0808 278 7907
White Horse Medical Practice 01367 242388
Vale of White Horse-Support 01235 422600
Vale Community Impact 01235 765348
LCSS (Locality and Community Support Service) South 0345 2412608
Your social worker
Your child’s school
Church Ministers
GFO Charter Pledge
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FarmED
GFO Network Member
Cooking Activity
Details
Station Rd, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton OX7 6BJ
Sophie Wilkinson
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Description
FarmED is the new Centre for Farm & Food Education based at Honeydale Farm in the Cotswolds. We are a Community Interest Company. Our mission is to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner led knowledge exchange events and personal development.
GFO Charter Pledge
We pledge to accelerate the transition towards regenerative farming and sustainable food systems by providing space and opportunity for inspirational education, innovative research, practitioner led knowledge exchange events, and personal development.
Florence Park Community Centre
Community Food Service
Cooking Activity
Details
Florence Park Community Centre, Cornwallis Road OX4 3NH
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07864 028 591
Description
Weekly Friday lunch club, free to anyone over 60 from the Oxford area, every Friday 12-2pm. When running at capacity, waiting list with priority given to people from the local area. Vegetarians and other dietary requirements can be accommodated) email : florenceparkcommunitycentre@gmail.com
Community events, monthly community cafe, groups and clubs. Free events throughout the year to bring the community together. Space to hire for groups and classes.
See website for classes, groups, events etc http://www.florenceparkcommunitycentre.org.uk/
GFO Charter Pledge
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Florence Park Community Centre Over 60s Lunch Club
Community Food Service
None
Details
Florence Park Community Centre, Cornwallis Road, Oxford, OX4 3NH
Rachel Lawrence
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Description
We provide free lunches for the over 60s community, using donations from Oxford Food Bank and fresh, extremely local produce from Oxford City Farm. Most of our meals are vegetarian, and we ensure that they are nutritious and tasty. We also use biodegradable packaging for our meals and puddings.
GFO Charter Pledge
We will continue to grow our client numbers to ensure that as many people as possible are reached and can benefit from free, healthy meals made using produce from the Oxford Food Bank and Oxford City Farm. We also pledge to research the most environmentally friendly packaging options to ensure that they are easily recycled/ composted.
Food & Drink Special Collections at Oxford Brookes University
Cooking Activity
None
Details
Oxford Brookes Headington Campus, Gipsy Ln, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
Isabel Virgo
01865 534700
Description
We hold a range of historic recipe books, housekeeping manuals and related archival materials dating from the 1700s to the modern day. Collections include the libraries of Ken Hom, Antonio Carluccio, Jane Grigson and the original John Fuller collection. We also hold the National Brewing Library.
GFO Charter Pledge
To encourage use of historic food and drink books and archival material by researchers and local people.
Gather & Gather
GFO Network Member
None
Details
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 0BP
Abhirami Ravi
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Description
We are a People focused business & we love what we do. Serving great food, great coffee by our amazing people, using Local and sustainable produce where we can.
GFO Charter Pledge
Reduce Food Wastage, Minimal use of plastic & adopt Sustaibable measures wherever possible.
GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE
GFO Network Member
None
Details
Green Templeton College, 43 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HG
Lodge
01865274792
Description
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About Green Templeton
Green Templeton College is a graduate community at the heart of the University of Oxford. It brings together students, academics and practitioners with a particular focus on business and management, health and medicine, and social sciences.
Contemporary Outlook
With approaching 700 students from close to 75 countries and more than 300 fellows, we are international, family friendly and future focused within a traditional Oxford setting.
Collaborations and interactions across our community of students, fellows and staff are actively encouraged and our egalitarian ethos is epitomised by a single common room. The inclusion of all, regardless of gender, sexual identity, race, ethnicity or class, is one of our foundational principles.
Interdisciplinary Approach
Our intellectual agenda and distinctive academic profile emphasise issues relating to human welfare and social, economic and environmental well-being in the 21st century.
The disciplines of our academic and student members cover health and medical sciences; business and management; and a broad range of social sciences, including education, environmental sciences and social policy.
Green Templeton pursues a range of academic initiatives, bringing together college members from different areas of expertise on issues around health and care, and policy and practice.
Practice Orientation
Green Templeton is outward facing and has permeable boundaries to bring high quality academic research to bear on real world problems.
In medicine, our practitioners are furthering learning hand-in-hand with their clinical work, whether pioneering liver transplant techniques or setting the global standards for early warnings of stroke.
In business, our members are advising large enterprises on the implications of AI for the future of work and establishing social enterprises piloting local solar electric grids in India. As home of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, we actively engage newsroom leaders from across the world.
GFO Charter Pledge
We pledge to support local growers and suppliers and the showcase the very best of Oxfordshire's produce!
Harvest @ Home (Harvest at Home), part of Cherwell Collective
GFO Network Member
Details
29 Queens Avenue, Kidlington, OX5 2JH
Emily Connally
07531 344952 / 01865 817676
Description
Harvest @ Home is a community action group building food security from the ground up. We provide garden kits, supplies, guides, and a community for low income families in Oxfordshire.
GFO Charter Pledge
We pledge to empower people to become directly involved in their personal food supply chain. We pledge to try and build a more sustainable community through supplies and support, from the ground up.
Heyford Park Pantry
Community Food Service
None
Details
The Community Centre, Building 549, Brice Road OX25 5TE
None
None
Description
• Community Larder – a membership service run by SOFEA that aims to reduce food waste and provide a low-cost food service to people in the area.
• Pantry – A food bank service, for those who live locally and need it. We get surplus food from local organisations, as well as donations from individuals.
Fri 11-12.30 Sat 10-12
GFO Charter Pledge
This organisation has not included their GFO pledge yet.
Iraqi Women Art and War (IWAW)
GFO Network Member
Cooking Activity
Details
8 Banbury Road, Woodstock, Oxford, OX20 1LQ
Rana Ibrahim
07515 273808
Description
Iraqi Women Art and War project, based in Oxfordshire and Iraq, would like to share Iraqi Cuisine healthy recipes, cooked traditionally, some of the Iraqi ways of cooking and recipes take us back to the first civilisation "Mesopotamia" join and try our Iraqi food.
GFO Charter Pledge
We would like to be healthier with our Iraqi food, increase growing vegetables from home to use in our cooking and encourage everyone to do the same.
Jericho Community Foodbank and Fridge
Community Food Service
None
Details
St. Barnabas Church, Saint Barnabas Street, Oxford, UK OX2 6BG
David Pittaway
01865 717429/07931 863233
Description
St Barnabas Jericho hosts the Jericho Community Fridge. Opening times
Tuesdays 5.30-6.30 pm in Jericho Community Centre on Canal Street
Thursdays 2.00-4.00 pm in St Barnabas Church on Cardigan Street
Sundays 12.00-2.00 pm in St Barnabas Church on Cardigan Street
What is it? It is one tried and tested way of stopping good food ending up in the bin. Surplus non perishable food is provided by local shops or members of the public and is then available for collection by people who need it. It works on an honesty basis. No questions asked.
You can collect or donate food when we are open.
What do we need/offer?
canned soups
canned vegetables
pasta
pasta sauces
packets of cupasoup
packets of biscuits
baby food
pot noodles
teabags
coffee
sugar
crackers
NO opened food, NO fresh food, NO fresh fruit or vegetables, NO home made food.
GFO Charter Pledge
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LCMB Building Performance Ltd.
GFO Network Member
None
Details
Bloxham Business Centre, Barford Rd, Bloxham, Banbury OX15 4FF
Jo Hermon
01295 722823
Description
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GFO Charter Pledge
LCMB have signed up to the Oxford Good Food Charter and supports Low Carbon Week. We will continue to support their clients buildings work harder, their facilities, buildings and estates to more effectively support and deliver their organisations aims and strategy. Our approach ensures our clientsâ buildings work harder, improving their return on investment by improving their customer service, making their people more productive, reducing operational cost and energy use.
Mpowa
GFO Network Member
None
Details
73 BISHOPSTONE
Myself
+447495326404
Description
Mpowa, in conjunction with our partners Green+ International is planning to establish an EcoFarm demonstration and training academy here in Bishopstone.
We will run monthly seminars on regenerative agriculture techniques and processes, in exchange for labour on the farm, once established.
Our mission is capacity building especially amongst the youth, university graduates, to inspire a new generation of leaders in sustainable agriculture.
GFO Charter Pledge
Our pledge for 2023 is to establish the project and host the initial education seminars.
Target is to reach minimum 60 local youth with free sustainability/EcoFarming classes and recruit volunteers to help with the project.
Producing first vegetable crops will be 2024.
Mrs Bun the Baker
GFO Network Member
Cooking Activity
Details
Station Rd, Cholsey, Wallingford OX10 9PT
Angela Johnson
07870 727007
Description
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GFO Charter Pledge
Good for Planet...To continue to ensure food waste is composted, and all packaging is recycled
Good for People...keep teaching others on healthy food, doing sugar free baking and working with community grouos and schools such as soha housing and childrens centres to look at healthy, affordable cooking.
Good for community...working with the community to bring cooking to all. Continue my efforts to get primary schools cooking up a storm in the classroom, with my hobless cooking.