Whether you’re a caterer, hotel, restaurant, office, retailer or any other food business or provider, OLIO’s Food Waste Heroes programme can be a sustainable solution to your business whereby we arrange to pick up and safely redistribute your surplus food to local communities.
Contact us FAQs
Whether you’re a caterer, hotel, restaurant, office, retailer or any other food business or provider, OLIO’s Food Waste Heroes programme can be a sustainable solution to your business whereby we arrange to pick up and safely redistribute your surplus food to local communities.
Contact us FAQs
Assess
We’ll have a conversation with you to assess your business’ food collection needs.
Recruit
We’ll recruit and train a team of volunteers who will collect your surplus food on a regular basis.
Collect
The Food Waste Heroes will collect and safely redistribute your surplus food to their local community using the OLIO app.
Impact
Your surplus food ends up in bellies, not bins. This benefits the environment, helps build local communities and improves your employee engagement.
“Working with OLIO has been a game-changer. We are totally behind OLIO’s mission and look forward to rolling out their service at other client sites.”
Alison-Hester Lloyd, Fooditude
“OLIO has been fantastic in helping us to redistribute unwanted food into the local community. we would strongly encourage any other food providers to get involved.”
Veryan Palmer, Compass Group
Q: What sort of business is appropriate?
A: Any business with surplus food, which they do not want to go to waste.
Q: Does it matter how often I have surplus food available?
A: No! We can either provide a regular service with a daily/weekly rota of volunteers, who are connected to one another via group messaging to arrange any cover/holidays as required. Or you can let our volunteers know on an ad-hoc basis as and when you’ve got surplus food available for collection.
Q: What if I already have charitable collections in place?
Many of our partners have existing charitable partnerships in place and we collect food when charities are unable to.
Q: Do the FWHs have any training?
A: We’ve developed a robust and easy-to-apply Food Safety Management System (FSMS) that all Food Waste Heroes adhere to. It’s easy to use yet sophisticated enough to ensure all types of food are distributed in a safe way. Our FSMS, which we created with input from the FSA, is approved by our Primary Authority and based on a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points study. Here is an overview on how Food Safety is ensured by volunteers on OLIO.
Q: Is there any cost associated with the programme?
A: We charge a nominal fee per collection to enable businesses to become zero waste. This includes fully serviced food collections with a dedicated account manager & monthly impact reports.
Q: Where is this available?
A: Currently our surplus food redistribution is available across the UK. Guidance on setting up the FWH programme in other markets available upon request.
