Winner of The Charity & Community Award in 2025, sponsored by Greatest Hits Radio, Waste2Taste is the Oxfordshire Business Awards charity for 2026.

During the course of the evening, representatives from Waste2Taste and the OXBA team will be coming around to tables and asking guests if they would like to make a donation to Waste2Taste. Donations can be made via card payment machines. To find out more about Waste2Taste, please read on.

Waste2Taste is a Community Interest Company, focussed on using surplus ingredients to provide high-quality food to the community, training and employment opportunities, community events and catering.

Waste2Taste is committed to fighting climate change by reducing food waste, and using high-quality surplus ingredients!

An innovative food concept, designed to offer skills and opportunities through its Cooking for Health & Wellbeing courses, work experience and paid employment.

Waste2Taste uses food as a tool! Sharing all its food knowledge to show the world that we can make magic with surplus ingredients that otherwise would have gone to waste, creating healthy and super tasty dishes.

Waste2Taste was set up in March 2017 by two friends - Sandra and Marie. Two food and community activists with a combined experience of 20 years working in the voluntary sector, fiercely passionate about food, the environment and supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the community.

You can read more about the Waste2Taste model and the impact they have by downloading Waste2Taste’s impact report.