Non-profit organisation 'Rethink Food' is working to remove hunger as a barrier to learning.
Based in Pudsey, the team at Rethink Food are determined to achieve food security across the UK and are helping their local community by selling family-friendly food boxes for a small price.
With the cost of living reaching crisis point: this is such an important cause to get involved with.
Founded in 2015, former headteacher and primary school teacher set out to tackle the problem of children arriving to one of their schools hungry each day. They held an awareness event and provided 10,000 children with a breakfast made out of food which otherwise would have gone to waste.
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From then on they have been determined to educate people about food and vowed to remove hunger as a barrier to learning. They now deliver this programme to over one hundred schools; increasing awareness, understanding and positive actions linked to food through an approach that references the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Just one of the ways in which they strive to reach this goal is through their food revival scheme. Comprised of the food they save from going to waste, volunteers curate boxes of food which are enough to feed a family of four for a week. The boxes are available for collection at the Market Hall in Pudsey and can be pre-ordered here.
Dietary requirements are taken into consideration and even if you have a big family, some of the Food Revival subscribers take home two or three boxes a week. There is a small charge, however for the volume of food you'll receive it is no where near the price you'd pay at a standard UK supermarket.
A recent subscriber posted a photo of her haul on social media with a list of what she received. "This was our weekly food shop. Just under £13 from Rethink in Pudsey. You get a balanced box for 4 people and can take some extra stuff if there is some. There's also 6 tomatoes, 6 kiwis, coconut macaroons, carrots, a cabbage and a single portion vegan lasagne under the other stuff. And 2kg Maris Piper potatoes out of shot."
"You have to be able to collect during the day Mon-Sat. Highly recommended. There were also loads of Gregg's sausage rolls, doughnuts and Belgian buns. You can pay an extra £5 for a bag from the freezer containing way more than £5-worth of meat, fish, pizza, vegetarian food or ready meals, if they've got them."
This innovative idea has been going since 2017 and has been helping families across Leeds and beyond. It is only one of the amazing schemes that Rethink Food are doing to help preserve our planet and improve our health and wellbeing.
To find out more about how you can feed your family for £13 or get involved with the non-profit, visit the Rethink Website.
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Leeds
Here’s how you can get FREE Tony’s Chocolonely and Yorkshire Tea in Leeds next week
In honour of National Chocolate Week, two big brands are joining forces.
Fancy a freebie? Silly question, of course you do.
Tony’s Chocolonely and Yorkshire Tea have joined forces for National Chocolate Week to ask Brits to declare themselves a ‘Melt’...yes, really.
It comes after the brands discovering a new Gen Z dunking trend, with research finding that 80% of 18–24-year-olds say chocolate is their preferred tea-dunking treat.
To understand why the perculiar pairing has become so popular, the brands recruited Associate Professor of Psychobiology, Dr Lorenzo Stafford, to investigate what happens when tea and chocolate come together.
Associate Professor, Dr Lorenzo Stafford said: "It's fascinating to see how much thought Brits put into what makes a great dunk. Flavour, texture and temperature all shape how we experience food, and the combination of hot tea with melting chocolate creates a particularly enjoyable sensory experience.
"When it comes to dunking, tea and chocolate have great chemistry so it’s no surprise young people have embraced it."
If you want to try it out for yourself, then you can for free - but there is one catch.
From Monday 19 to Friday 23 October, anyone who walks into one of Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds and says ‘I'm a Melt’ will get a free mug of Yorkshire Tea and bar of Tony's Chocolonely.
Not only that, but the first 100 customers will also get a limited-edition ‘Melt’ cap.
Yorkshire Tea & Tony’s Chocolonely said of the partnership, “Brits love their tea and their chocolate and now the science shows why. This National Chocolate Week, we’re inviting everyone to give it a go, embrace their inner Melt and discover just how well chunky chocolate and a proper brew can work together.”
Leeds Bradford Airport strikes will NOT go ahead following ‘late offer’ over pay
Clementine Hall
This weekend's strikes at Leeds Bradford Airport have been cancelled.
Around 130 workers were set to walk out this weekend, Unite said, but this has been suspended to allow air traffic controllers to consider a new pay offer.
The Unite members planning on to go on strike were a mixture of air traffic control workers, customer experience staff, security staff and cleaners.
The workers involved in the dispute had recently come out of a four-year pay deal, with some of the departments having fallen behind other airports in equivalent roles.
Pay talks have been happening since December 2025, with the airport's formal offer not going far enough to address the lack of pay parity which led to the decision to strike.
However, as of yesterday 15 October, the workers have been given new pay offers from the airport and the strikes will not take place to allow a ballot on the offers.
Air traffic controllers and hourly paid staff are being balloted separately on their respective offers.
Unite regional officer Neil Whitaker said: "After receiving offers from Leeds Bradford Airport, we have suspended this week’s strike action in good faith to allow members to vote on pay deals.”
In a statement, Leeds Bradford Airport said: "While the ballot process continues with certain members of our frontline colleagues, we remain hopeful that a positive outcome can be achieved and that an agreement can be reached which works for everyone involved.
"Regardless of the outcome of this ballot, LBA has a robust contingency plan in place and will be operating as normal this weekend.
"Our focus remains on supporting a smooth and reliable experience for customers while maintaining safe and efficient airport operations."
Clementine Hall -
21st April 2022 
