Welcome to the Food Rescue Volunteers!

Do you want to...

Reduce food waste on campus?
Improve food accessibility?
Support other students through the cost-of-living crisis?
Help improve the overall sustainability at the University of Leicester?

As society, we work together to collect food that the campus outlets can no longer sell because of their sell-by dates and deliver them to the community kitchen (in the Percy Gee Building), for students to take for free!

We run as a low-commitment society, we only ask each member to cover one shift per week – you just need to collect, deliver, and record the food, it usually takes only 15–30 minutes.

And the BONUSES are... as member you get first choice of the food in the fridge and be awarded free food vouchers to spend at any food outlet on campus!  

If you would like to get involved, please purchase a free standard membership on this page and send us an email on su-foodrescue@leicester.ac.uk

Quotes from Volunteers:

"An eye-opening and a hopeful one"            "Great, glad to be part of it"              "It is amazing"

                   "Amazing idea with a fantastic committee and wonderful volunteers!"       

 "Nice"                                 "It is quite a rewarding experience"                               "Valuable"

             "Something that makes me feel happy about being able to help someone"     

Meet Your 2025/26 Committee:

President: Khadeejah Pirzada (kp426@student.le.ac.uk)

Treasurer: Ishwaq Ali (ia255@student.le.ac.uk)

Wellbeing and Inclusion Ambassador: Vishali Sathiyavarathan (vs271@student.le.ac.uk) 

Publicity Secretary: Salma Khalaf (sk1034@student.le.ac.uk)

Contact Us:

Follow us on Instagram (@uolfoodrescue) and LinkedIn

Find us on Linktree  

In our first year as a student group (2023/2024), we have saved over 2600 food items – almost 470kg in total! 

Some of our numerous collections in our first year (2023/2024) running as a society: