The Growth Bites Podcast S2 Ep7

Duncan Swainsbury

How Bounceback Food is Tackling Food Poverty

 
 
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About this episode

In this episode of Growth Bites, Jo Perrotta speaks with Duncan Swainsbury, Founder of Bounceback Food CIC, about tackling food poverty and building a sustainable social enterprise.

Duncan shares how Bounceback’s model has developed, from its buy-one-give-one approach to community kitchens and teaching cooking skills. He also discusses the challenges of sustaining the organisation, the importance of partnerships and plans to expand its work across the UK.

 

Meet our Guest

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Duncan Swainsbury

Founder

Duncan Swainsbury is the founder of Bounceback Food CIC – a social enterprise that has been tackling food poverty and food waste across the UK since 2014. Having spent time volunteering at a foodbank in Manchester, he began developing Community Cookery School teams and more recently Community Kitchens – that collectively provide beneficiaries with nutritious meals, cooking skills and accredited qualifications. Duncan is now focussed on scaling Bounceback’s model across the UK, having donated 250,000 meals & taught more than 10,000 people how to cook predominantly in the North-West.

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