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Iseult Ward, who was studying Business and Economics in Trinity College Dublin, met Aoibheann O’Brien, a post-graduate student completing a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science, at an Enactus event. They shared a mutual love of food and a distaste for food waste, which is what led to the project that would later become FoodCloud.
By June 2012, Iseult and Aoibheann facilitated the first donation from the “Honest 2 Goodness” farmers market in Glasnevin to the charity “Don Bosco Teenage Care”.They realised that they needed technology to make the process scalable and sustainable.
Having developed FoodCloud into a business with Trinity’s Launchbox Programme, FoodCloud were awarded a programme place at the National Digital Research Centre and from the Arthur Guinness Fund.
Tesco Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution. FoodCloud had six partner charities at this time.
Our national programme with Tesco Ireland began. A successful pilot expanded nationally to the chain’s 146 stores.Our Food Rescue Project began. Volunteers drove an e-car donated by ESB to collect food from stores to deliver to charities.
FoodCloud were awarded an Impact Award from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland.Aldi Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution.We opened our first Hub in Cork to service the Munster region.
FoodCloud began working with FareShare in the UK with a pilot of 10 Tesco stores, described by Dave Lewis, then Chief Executive of Tesco, as: “...potentially the biggest single step we’ve taken to cut food waste.”
We opened our Dublin Hub. FoodCloud facilitated over 567 tonnes of food donated to 325 charities in one year.
Bia Food Initiative and FoodCloud joined forces to launch FoodCloud Hubs.We opened our Galway Hub.We announced a national partnership with Aldi in Ireland.Tesco Ireland announced they had donated the equivalent of two million meals through FoodCloud.We received our first donation from BWG Foods into our Cork Hub.2,528 tonnes of food was redistributed to over 1,100 charities in the UK and Ireland.
2,528 tonnes of food were donated to over 1,100 charities in the UK and Ireland.Lidl Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution.
We started working with Waitrose in the UK and reached 500K meals. Our multi-year partnership with AIB and Rethink Ireland began. Musgrave Marketplace started working with us through our in-store solution. Nestlé Ireland became the first Hubs donor to pay per-pallet of food donated.
FoodCloud and FoodCloud Hubs joined to become one organisation.
To transform surplus food into opportunities to make the world a kinder place.
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A world where no good food goes to waste.
Iseult Ward, who was studying Business and Economics in Trinity College Dublin, met Aoibheann O’Brien, a post-graduate student completing a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science, at an Enactus event. They shared a mutual love of food and a distaste for food waste, which is what led to the project that would later become FoodCloud.
By June 2012, Iseult and Aoibheann facilitated the first donation from the “Honest 2 Goodness” farmers market in Glasnevin to the charity “Don Bosco Teenage Care”.They realised that they needed technology to make the process scalable and sustainable.
Having developed FoodCloud into a business with Trinity’s Launchbox Programme, FoodCloud were awarded a programme place at the National Digital Research Centre and from the Arthur Guinness Fund.
Tesco Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution. FoodCloud had six partner charities at this time.
Our national programme with Tesco Ireland began. A successful pilot expanded nationally to the chain’s 146 stores.Our Food Rescue Project began. Volunteers drove an e-car donated by ESB to collect food from stores to deliver to charities.
FoodCloud were awarded an Impact Award from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland.Aldi Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution.We opened our first Hub in Cork to service the Munster region.
FoodCloud began working with FareShare in the UK with a pilot of 10 Tesco stores, described by Dave Lewis, then Chief Executive of Tesco, as: “...potentially the biggest single step we’ve taken to cut food waste.”
We opened our Dublin Hub. FoodCloud facilitated over 567 tonnes of food donated to 325 charities in one year.
Bia Food Initiative and FoodCloud joined forces to launch FoodCloud Hubs.We opened our Galway Hub.We announced a national partnership with Aldi in Ireland.Tesco Ireland announced they had donated the equivalent of two million meals through FoodCloud.We received our first donation from BWG Foods into our Cork Hub.2,528 tonnes of food was redistributed to over 1,100 charities in the UK and Ireland.
2,528 tonnes of food were donated to over 1,100 charities in the UK and Ireland.Lidl Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution.
We started working with Waitrose in the UK and reached 500K meals. Our multi-year partnership with AIB and Rethink Ireland began. Musgrave Marketplace started working with us through our in-store solution. Nestlé Ireland became the first Hubs donor to pay per-pallet of food donated.
FoodCloud and FoodCloud Hubs joined to become one organisation.
Iseult Ward, who was studying Business and Economics in Trinity College Dublin, met Aoibheann O’Brien, a post-graduate student completing a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science, at an Enactus event. They shared a mutual love of food and a distaste for food waste, which is what led to the project that would later become FoodCloud.
By June 2012, Iseult and Aoibheann facilitated the first donation from the “Honest 2 Goodness” farmers market in Glasnevin to the charity “Don Bosco Teenage Care”. They realised that they needed technology to make the process scalable and sustainable.
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Having developed FoodCloud into a business with Trinity’s Launchbox Programme, FoodCloud were awarded a programme place at the National Digital Research Centre and from the Arthur Guinness Fund.
Tesco Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution. FoodCloud had six partner charities at this time.
Our national programme with Tesco Ireland began. A successful pilot expanded nationally to the chain’s 146 stores.Our Food Rescue Project began. Volunteers drove an e-car donated by ESB to collect food from stores to deliver to charities.
FoodCloud were awarded an Impact Award from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland.Aldi Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution.We opened our first Hub in Cork to service the Munster region.
FoodCloud began working with FareShare in the UK with a pilot of 10 Tesco stores, described by Dave Lewis, then Chief Executive of Tesco, as: “...potentially the biggest single step we’ve taken to cut food waste.”
We opened our Dublin Hub. FoodCloud facilitated over 567 tonnes of food donated to 325 charities in one year.
Bia Food Initiative and FoodCloud joined forces to launch FoodCloud Hubs.We opened our Galway Hub.We announced a national partnership with Aldi in Ireland.Tesco Ireland announced they had donated the equivalent of two million meals through FoodCloud.We received our first donation from BWG Foods into our Cork Hub.2,528 tonnes of food was redistributed to over 1,100 charities in the UK and Ireland.
2,528 tonnes of food were donated to over 1,100 charities in the UK and Ireland.Lidl Ireland started working with us through our in-store solution.
We started working with Waitrose in the UK and reached 500K meals. Our multi-year partnership with AIB and Rethink Ireland began. Musgrave Marketplace started working with us through our in-store solution. Nestlé Ireland became the first Hubs donor to pay per-pallet of food donated.
2019 was a transformative year for FoodCloud. On July 1, we proudly brought together our retail and technology solution FoodCloud with our sister warehouse operation FoodCloud Hubs, to provide an end-to-end solution for surplus food redistribution across the whole supply chain under the FoodCloud brand.
From extreme peaks and troughs in the supply of food, limited volunteers and restrictive Covid-19 work practices, FoodCloud saw some of their highest and lowest volumes of food in 2020 amid panic buying and the closure of the hospitality sector. As a result, during the peak of the pandemic in April and May, FoodCloud more than doubled the amount of food redistributed from an average of 25 tonnes per week in February to over 60 tonnes per week. They distributed 75% more food across their three Hubs than in 2019 to over 650 charities and community groups across Ireland.
2021 was yet another extraordinary year for FoodCloud. The unprecedented growth in 2020 meant that the focus for 2021 had to be on the introduction of significant changes across organisation in terms of work practices, technological upgrades and our fundraising strategy. FoodCloud entered the year facing further pandemic uncertainty which posed a challenge in setting targets and predicting what the year would look like. Given the accelerated climate and food security crises, in addition to the core offering, FoodCloud needed to implement significant and necessary projects to future-proof their systems, strategy and technology for transformative impact in this UN-designated Decade of Action to 2030. FoodCloud redistributed 16,380 tonnes of surplus food (39 million meals) across four markets: Ireland, UK, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, contributing to the avoidance of approximately 52,416 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. This was a 25% increase on the 13,116 tonnes of surplus food (31 million meals) that had been redistributed in 2020.
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