A pop-up café will make a welcome return to a popular community centre offering food at reasonable prices that would have otherwise gone to waste. 

The Random Café, part of The Real Junk Food Project, will be setting up shop at the Meriden Community Centre in Watford, on May 26.

Doors open from 1pm – 3pm. 

The community interest group are a not-for-profit organisation who take surplus food from supermarkets, bakeries, shops and allotments that would otherwise be thrown away, and offer that produce to customers for a nominal donation. 

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Food is laid out on tables where customers can choose what they want and pay “what they feel it is worth” straight into a donation bucket. 
Any food left over is given to local farms for livestock. 

The Watford-based café started in 2017 and is run entirely by volunteers.

Since they started, the café has saved over a tonne of food from unnecessary waste. 

Hillingdon Times:

Alex Murray, a Watford café volunteers said: “The real aim is to reduce food wastage and to do so by donating back to the public. Anyone can come along and benefit from the organisation.

“It feels really good to know that we are helping to solve food waste which is a major issue.

“Approximately two-and-a-half meals a week are wasted in the home by not knowing about simple things like sell by dates - food which is perfectly edible.”

The organisation who rely on good faith gestures and word of mouth want to broaden the discussion on food wastage generally. They hold three events per month, usually on Saturdays. 

For more information visit https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/random-cafe #FeedBelliesNotBins