South Cambridgeshire Surplus Collections

Is your garden, allotment, or fruit tree growing more produce than you can use? Cambridge Sustainable Food can help!

Bring your surplus produce along to one of our donation points this September, and we’ll do the rest to make sure it reaches households facing barriers to accessing fresh, local fruit and veg. Everything we collect will be redistributed to local food hubs in seasonal recipe kits, or batch-cooked into products and preserves to supply the community throughout the winter.

For more information and queries please contact alex@cambridgesustainablefood.org

The South Cambs ‘Surplus Fruit and Veg Drive’ is part of a district-wide initiative funded by South Cambs District Council’s Zero Carbon Communities.

 

CAMBOURNE collections

Bring your fruit and veg along to the Hope CIC Community Food Project any time during their opening hours on Monday 14th, Wednesday 16th & Friday 18th September

The Hub Community Centre, High Street, Cambourne, CB23 6GW. Open 10am-1pm Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

For more information about the Community Food project, visit the Hope Against Poverty CIC website.

mobile food hub collections

Drop your produce off with the HOPE CIC Mobile Food Hub at the following points:

BALSHAM: Monday 14th September, 12-1pm @ The Recreation Ground

FULBOURN: Tuesday 15th September, 10:30-11:30am @ The Swifts

LINTON: Tuesday 15th September, 12-1pm @ Linton Village Hall

ORCHARD PARK: Wednesday 16th September, 12:30-1:30pm @ Unwin Square

DUXFORD: Thursday 17th September, 11:30am-12:30pm @ Duxford Community Centre

NORTHSTOWE: Friday 18th September, 10:30-11:30am @ The Green

Autumn dates will be confirmed closer to the time - check back here for details.

See here for more information about the Mobile Food Hub and schedule.

Community harvest days

COTTENHAM FRUIT FEST
Sunday 13th September, 11am-4pm, Cottenham Village Hall

FruitFest is an Apple Day with a difference – a feast of apples and other seasonal fruit and veg; with a mission to save waste and see surplus produce redistributed to where it’s needed.

Do you have fruit trees cropping more than you can use? We’re inviting any one with surplus fruits or veg to bring them along for collection by Cambridge Sustainable Food. Donated food will be passed on to local charities including Hope CIC’s Mobile Food Hub and Cottenham Community Café.

FruitFest is much more, with attractions and interest for everyone. A cookery demonstration by popular chef ‘Waste Not Rowen’, who made a big impact at Sustainable Cottenham’s stand at FEF; and apple tasting, apple juicing, Create a Crazy Fruit/Veg Hat, a ‘bring and take’ jam jars exchange and refreshments. Fruity, fun and family-friendly!

For more information visit www.sustainablecottenham.org.uk

BASSINGBOURN APPLE DAY
Saturday 19th September, 2-5pm, The Old Community Centre

We are hosting an Apple Day with The Zero Carbon Collective. An afternoon of family fun celebrating local produce:

  • Apple pressing, with fresh juice to try

  • Live cookery demo with apple-inspired recipes

  • Apple variety tasting

  • Children’s crafts

For more information visit: https://zerocarboncollective.co.uk/