Our partnership with innocent drinks

UKHarvest opened the Nourish Hub in December 2022 and since then innocent drinks have been a key partner in helping to build the Nourish Hub’s success. Since opening, surplus innocent drinks are regularly received by the Nourish Hub and conveniently their headquarters (Fruit Towers) is just down the road in Ladbroke Grove.

Our partnership has evolved over the last couple of years from innocent employees volunteering down in Nourish Hub’s kitchen over Christmas to then collaborating and hosting a ‘Down to the core cook-off ’. The aim of this event was encouraging people to eat more fruit & veg whilst reducing food waste. The Nourish Hub along with innocent invited a range of people from other NGOs , local MPs and like-minded businesses, to the kitchen for a cook-off style event. Unlike most corporate visits or engagements, this was an innovative way to share time, space and ideas. You can read more about it in this blog post.

Then most recently innocent drinks, with the help of Creatisan Ltd // Multi-channel Brand Activation Specialists renovated what was a very plain and uninviting meeting room into a bright and engaging “fruit & veg themed” meeting room space that offers an inspiring and exciting place for organisation’s, groups, corporate businesses and companies to hire, contributing to Nourish Hub’s goal to becoming self-sufficient. You can find more info about how to book the room here.

We are truly grateful for innocent’s ongoing support for the Nourish Hub. We feel strongly that innocent’s commitment to helping get more fruit and veg to people beyond the drinks they sell ties in seamlessly in with our own mission to empower and support our local community, supplying surplus fruit & veg in our freshly daily cooked meals at the Nourish Hub. Their actions as an organisation and their commitment to supporting UKHarvest and Nourish Hub make a big difference to our charity, and to the people we’re supporting every day.

To find out how you can collaborate with Nourish Hub through cooking sessions, corporate volunteer days, fundraising or hiring our new meeting room space, please contact info@nourishhub.org.uk

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