OUR CAFE
Visit us at our warm and welcoming Waste2Taste Café, where we serve a delicious seasonal menu, alongside cakes and pastries. The café uses food surplus as its main ingredient and has a ‘never waste anything’ approach creating a place for anyone and everyone. We have a freezer of love, a kindness menu and a mini larder for anyone in our community in need of food help.
THE CAFE’S MISSION
Our café is a space meant to create and nurture connections amongst the local community. It provides dignified food support and opportunities to recover from isolation caused by physical, social or financial restrictions. It acts as a bridge to the other and a welcoming place for anyone and everyone.
The café uses food surplus as its main ingredient and has a “never waste anything” approach, generating longer-term sustainable food systems locally. We engage supportively with BPHA and local partners, in order to tackle isolation and loneliness and build long-term resilience.
ALWAYS A WARM WELCOME
The café will provide work experience, mentoring and training opportunities to the homeless and vulnerably housed, a pathway into work.
It is a lovely community space where all are welcome, even your much-loved pet! You can work from here, relax, enjoy really yummy food, and it is a safe and fun place for your children with a beautiful little play area!
We are also proud winners of the ‘Best Café in Oxfordshire’ at Ox In A Box Food Awards 2023.
CAFE OPENING HOURS:
Tuesday to Thursday 9.30am to 2.30pm
1st Friday of the month 9.30am to 2.30pm
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Freezer of Love
Situated in the cafe and always accessible to all, the Freezer of Love is packed with delicious meals cooked in our kitchen, full of tasty vegetable and nutritiously balanced. It encourages people to self-collect and engage in person, providing an opportunity to link to the community meals; and it’s accessible on a donation basis, completing our offering of affordable healthy food.
KINDNESS MENU
Our pay-it-forward scheme that allows you to buy something for someone else to enjoy when they need it. Be it a coffee or a meal, you can pay it forward and we will add it to our board, until someone who needs it pops in and uses the sticky note as a token at the till. While the Freezer of Love offers frozen meals to take home, the Kindness Menu allows people to enjoy a freshly cooked, warm meal at the cafe.
SESI REFILL
SESI is a British producer and distributor of great quality, vegan and sustainable cleaning products and toiletries for refill shops/corners at local venues. We stock a selection of their products at the cafe: bring your own empty, clean bottles and we’ll refill them for you! You’ll pay only for the product not the packaging, and you’ll help us and SESI reduce plastic waste and the carbon footprint of our cleaning habits.
