Our House

S2: The Felix Project & Food for Aldgate

May 06, 2022 Season 2 Episode 10
Our House
S2: The Felix Project & Food for Aldgate
Show Notes

Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.

In today's episode, Helen is joined by Rachel Ledwith from The Felix Project, Paul Wilson from EastendHomes and Helen, Ruby and Forhana from Food for Aldgate. They discuss their mission to reduce food waste in East London and beyond.

We start by with learning more about The Felix Project from Rachel, the head of community engagement. Rachel shares how The Felix Project came to be and what motivated her to start working within food redistribution. 

We also hear from Paul Wilson, the Community Engagement Manager at EastendHomes. He talks about why he helped set up Food for Aldgate and the impact that partnerships with other likeminded community organisations have had.

Helen also chats to the volunteers from Food for Aldgate - Helen, Forhana and Ruby.  They discuss why they got involved in the project and how they think it's helped their local community.

If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend! And if you would like to get involved in volunteering for The Felix Project, they're always looking for new volunteers - you can sign up here!

This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on! 

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