The prevention and/or relief of poverty by providing donations of food for local for banks, not for profit community food projects and charities
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Cocoa Fowler didn’t have an easy start to life – he was raised in the care system, leaving school in 1981 to serve in the Royal Artillery. As a gunner Cocoa served his country for 15 years including a tour of Iraq. After leaving the army Cocoa established a successful business overseas but felt an irresistible pull to help others in need, leaving for Sri Lanka in 2005 to volunteer with the tsunami relief effort.
It was after his return to the United Kingdom that Cocoa began to struggle with physical and mental health issues, losing his job and eventually becoming homeless. It was only when he approached a charity for help with food that he saw light at the end of the tunnel and after being asked to help as a volunteer driver he found a new passion and an idea for a new charity, Food for Nought.
Today Cocoa’s Peterborough-based charity Food for Nought delivers surplus food from local farmers and supermarkets to food banks, hostels and community fridges. With a team of trustees, Food for Nought have helped tackle food poverty and have redirected over a thousand tonnes of food from landfill.
In 2019 Food for Nought linked up with the Social Echo who helped Cocoa and team to secure storage at a Peterborough food factory. In 2020 Social Echo offered the charity more warehousing facilities at its pilot hub just outside Peterborough.
They have also now worked together to obtain a warehouse, that is going to be developed into a hub for food storage as well as creating a kitchen where surplus food can be processed and frozen, therefore making sure that more goes to feed people than goes to landfill. Funds raised will support Food for Nought to continue their great work and also develop the new building into a thriving hub.