The Rutland Community Fridge is an Oakham based food salvaging project that has been helping the community for one year. To celebrate their birthday, the team wanted to share their achievements from the last 365 days.

This year the Rutland Community Fridge has:

Saved 8 tonnes of food from going into landfill waste

The Uppingham Town Hall hub is open from 1.30pm until 3:30pm

The team at Rutland Community Fridge collect surplus food that has reached its sell by date from local supermarkets. The team can either freeze this food or pass it along to those in need, both preventing waste and making sure none of the local community go hungry.

Until now they have been able to gift all this food with no charge because of their success in gaining funding to establish this project. As a new year of the project dawns, they are now moving to a "Pay as you Feel" system to support the running costs of the community scheme.

Approximately 25 willing volunteers have been trained in Food Hygiene and there is a core team of folk who support the volunteers each session and collect food from the local supermarkets.

The team have said: "There has been a great interest in this project in Rutland. Thank you to all of our volunteers, without whom this would not be possible.

"Our aim is still to save perfectly good food from waste and pass it on to anyone who wishes to use it up. It is strange in these times that a lot of supermarkets sometimes have gaps on their shelves but then they still have to get rid of food at the end of the day.

"We are there to prevent this waste from not being used. Any food waste that we have at the end of the opening times, goes to the Rutland Farm Park to support feeding the animals."

The team are proud of the waste free cycle that this has created and the impact that it has had upon the local community.

"We would like to thank Uppingham Town Council for giving us the space to host the Community Fridge in a great location in town and also ECOSKI who very kindly gift us the space in Oakham to house the project."

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