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What a day for a worm survey! 🪱 It was lovely to be joined by some of the Lloyd & Whyte team for a day of corporate volunteering. If your team would be interested in joining us for a day like this, please email rosa.romeo@healrewilding.org.uk for more information. #Rewilding #CorporateVolunteering #CorporateDay #Environment #Biodiversity

What difference can you make on walks this weekend? Join 26,000 dog owners picking up a couple of pieces of litter on walks to protect animals, communities and our precious environment. It only takes a minute but makes a huge impact - 38 million pieces of litter every year, a few pieces at a time. The truly amazing thing is how great it feels to do something so simple that has an immediate and very visible difference. On #mentalhealthawareness week, why not give it a try and see.... #dogowners #walkingthedog #environmentalcharity #volunteering

🥙 🤼 Making a Difference with Everybody Eats! Something close to my heart is giving back & when I find opportunities to do so with the added benefit of a greener outcome, I am keen to get involved. This week our Custom Crew at Custom Fleet had the privilege of volunteering with Everybody Eats, a pay-as-you-feel dining concept for everyone. We worked both in the front and back of house service teams supporting the evenings food service. We left feeling inspired by their mission of 'Feeding Bellies not Bins' and all in all couldn't have gotten more out of the experience, to the customers, fellow volunteers and Everybody Eats team - thanks! If you’re looking for ways to get involved or support a great cause, I highly recommend checking out Everybody Eats and seeing how you can contribute to their mission. Everybody Eats is focused on tackling three main problems: 1- Too much food - Humans waste around one-third of the food we produce. 1.3 Billion tonnes of perfectly good food, worth over One Trillion dollars. 2 - Not enough food - At the same time over one billion people are going hungry. Recent studies show that in New Zealand 1 in 6 people don't have enough to eat. 3 - Disconnected - Communities are increasingly fragmented. We don't know our neighbours anymore. Social Isolation is a significant and growing problem. Tania Hammond Adam Peters Nadine Martin #Volunteering #CustomFleet #CommunitySupport #GreenImpact #EverybodyEats #CustomCares

❗ TAKE ACTION NOW❗ Most chickens raised for meat in the U.S. today have been bred to grow so large, so quickly that they can hardly walk, let alone fly.💔 Over 230 companies, including many major retailers, have committed to transitioning to higher welfare chicken breeds that grow more naturally and farms with environments where the birds can thrive. But unless retailers hear from you, progress will stall and they won't prioritize transitioning to more humane products. Send a message to your favorite stores NOW asking them to offer more humane chicken products! ➡️ https://bit.ly/48C8yoN

At The Bite Project we offer a free day to our people each year to use for their own thoughtful activity, e.g. cultural, creative, educational, volunteering, family time etc. We call it T-time, a.k.a “thoughtful time”. We also have an annual team T-Time where we all get together to do an activity. This year it was a team volunteering day. Doing volunteering as a team can be a great way to encourage staff to volunteer without them having to organise it off their own back - and by showing them it’s a company commitment that leadership are on board with (not just lip service). This year the team headed over to Port Melbourne to do “Cooking for a Cause” with OzHarvest. This is a great initiative as it has a range of important benefits - education, helping the environment and assisting those in need. We learnt about zero-waste cooking, sustainability…and some handy cooking skills. During our session our team was able to make use of surplus food rescued from landfill to make gourmet meals. These were then sent off to feed people in vulnerable communities. Learning that Australians throw 1 in every 5 grocery bags in the bin has definitely made me think about food waste at home more seriously. It was a nice way to get out of the office, connect with the team and feel good doing something that helps a very worthy cause. 💪 Achievements 17 sticky date puddings 69 mushroom & veg pockets 60ish people fed 10kg of food rescued from landfill Organising a team day for a cause that aligns with everyone’s values is a great way to give back - and have fun while doing it. #volunteering #teambuilding #cookingforacause #ozharvest #sustainability

Events can be incredibly wasteful. We at The Bite Project are extremely conscious of it at every event we deliver. It was while running an event catering business that Ronni Kahn, founder of OzHarvest, noticed the waste and decided to do something about it. This is why OzHarvest, for us, is a perfect fit for our T-time team days. (T-time is short for thoughtful time and is a day every year we take as a team and as individuals to do something thoughtful). Getting your people together to do something like this is a great way to: ⚡ bond - teamwork is the dreamwork ⚡ inspire - team feeling flat? Get them out together doing something different ⚡ reiterate core values - sustainability is a key part of our value - thoughtful - this provided the team with hands-on experience with this 👇 This is some amazing team being, inspiration, and thoughtfulness right here.

Our true purpose in life? Giving back to nature! We are natural born consumers and we need a lot of care and attention. Therefore if we can do it, giving back is an empowering and eye opening experience. Our personal mission, goal and purpose in life is different from one person to another, we're all here to fulfil a different purpose. But there is a common purpose that is shared between all of us and that is giving back to nature, looking after the environment, animals and one another. In this way we are giving back to nature. This is a common duty and it requires systems and processes in place, but recycling for example is a good example of looking after the environment, giving to animal protection is a good charity and doing jobs that support others is a good way to give back to others. So this adds value to who we are and gives us a mature vision in life. Giving back is our common purpose.

This week At Rotary: We welcome Alice Morrison, the Co-Executive Director of Policy and Development for Friends of Family Farmers (FoFF). Friends of Family Farmers was conceived to promote and protect socially responsible agriculture in Oregon. This non-profit organization was founded in the summer of 2005 and has been advocating for small to mid-sized farms ever since. Alice's topic this Tuesday will be: The case for small farms and the impact of your community food system. When it comes to food, why should we buy local? There is a lot of information floating around about the benefits of small farms, local food systems, and organic practices. But what does it all mean, what really makes a difference, and how do you know something is the real deal? Get the answers to these questions and learn about vital programs to help small growers from Friends of Family Farmers. Tuesday at Noon Graduate Eugene Zoom: https://lnkd.in/gJZqvNQn

🌱👩🌾 Young Cooks Dig Into Community Garden Project! 🍅🥕 Exciting things are happening at The Kind Kitchen Group! Our Young Cooks have rolled up their sleeves and gotten their hands dirty (quite literally!) as they begin building planter beds for our community garden project. This initiative is about more than just growing fresh produce - it's about cultivating a sense of ownership, responsibility, and pride in our young people. By involving them in every step of the process, from building the beds to planting the seeds to harvesting the vegetables, we're helping them develop valuable life skills and a deeper connection to their food and community. As they assembled the beds, our Young Cooks demonstrated incredible teamwork, problem-solving, and perseverance. It was inspiring to see them encourage and support one another, share ideas, and work collaboratively towards a common goal. This community garden project is a perfect example of the hands-on, experiential learning we believe in at The Kind Kitchen Group. By engaging our students in real-world projects with tangible outcomes, we're helping them build confidence, resilience, and a lifelong love of learning. We can't wait to see how this garden grows and its positive impact on our students and community. Stay tuned for updates as our Young Cooks continue to nurture this project from seed to harvest! If you'd like to support initiatives like this that empower youth and strengthen community bonds, please consider donating https://lnkd.in/dRe_YDu8 Every contribution helps us plant the seeds of change! #CommunityGarden #YouthEmpowerment #ExperientialLearning #GrowingTogether #SustainableFuture #CulinaryStorytelling #FoodMemories #YouthEmpowerment #VirtualLearning #GratefulForOurCommunity #Durham #Food #FoodAccess #resilience #WhereFoodMeetsPurpose #KindKitchenGroup #CulinaryImpact #SupportYouth #YoungCooksSociety #ChefSicilyJohnson #CulinaryArts #SocialImpact #YouthEmpowerment #CommunityBuilding #CulinaryArts #YouthEmpowerment #CommunityBuilding #KindKitchenGroup #ChefMelanieWilkerson

This is going out in my company newsletter, but I wanted to share it here, too. It's about Sanctuary One's upcoming volunteer week. It would be great if you could come out. 😀 You’ve heard the phrase: It takes a village to ______________. Usually used to emphasize how difficult it is to raise a child, the well-known idiom can apply to any number of things that are best served with a team. Quite a few things, as it turns out. “…run a care farm” is one of them. For the last year and a half, I’ve witnessed that reality firsthand at Sanctuary One, Southern Oregon’s own care farm out in the Applegate Valley. As vice president for the organization’s board of directors, I now know the benefits to a community such an effort can reap. I know of the peaceful environment that rescued farm animals can heal and live out their days in, of the joy that comes from finding adoptable ones forever homes. I know of the programs intended to benefit service-learning groups, of the field trips for educating youth and the tours for educating anyone, of the gardens that yield quite a bit of produce for local food banks. The organization’s motto is “People, Animals, and the Earth: Better Together,” which makes perfect sense. It takes a village to, well, everything. I know how fulfilling volunteering in such an environment can be, and I’m asking you to join me later this month. Sanctuary One’s eighth annual volunteer week is April 14-20, with sessions held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day, and there’s plenty to get done out at the 55-acre property. There’s fence mending, garden work, building toys for the animals, grooming, managing blackberry bramble, shoveling, mucking, and more. Much more. Oh, and lunch and a t-shirt are included. More details and a registration form are available at https://sanctuaryone.org. Just head to the "Events" tab. Let’s show Southern Oregon what a village can do.