Award Winning Community Meals on Wheels Across the City of Brighton & Hove

FOOD IS MEDICINE.

MALNUTRITION IN THE UK. THE INVISIBLE PROBLEM COSTING THE NHS 22 BILLION A YEAR.

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to Catarina & Gemma from Sussex Community Foundation Trust for raising £650 for EBFC at the Dublin half marathon! £3,000 raised by Bryan and the team on gofundme to keep EBFC’s award winning home delivered fresh nutritious meals service and surplus food redistribution across Brighton and Hove going! Thank you to all our supporters, especially the fantastic Enjoolata Foundation, EBFC’s first ever supporter, for match funding £1,500 and young Patrick Coyle for running his socks off in the Brighton 10k!

Brighton 10k run, Patrick and Bryan CoyleBryan Coyle outside East Brighton Food Co-op with lots of fresh surplus vegetables, ready for redistribution to other food groups and to be cooked up in the EBFC klitchen for meals on wheels for the elderly.Catarina & Gemma from the NHS Sussex Community Foundation Trust after running the Dublin half marathon to raise funds for the EBFC

PLEASE DONATE IF YOU CAN

Sign up someone you know or yourself for EBFC’S meals on wheels service and you can support and taste for yourself our fresh, healthy, nutritious meals.

Regular monthly donations make a big impact to our service, however big or small, it all helps. Thank you for your support.

 – £120 covers 1 months healthy, fresh, nutritious delivered meals with fruit and welfare visits for 1 vulnerable person, helping with recovery and wellbeing after a hospital stay, facilitating their discharge home and maintaining their health and wellbeing longterm.

 – £60 covers 2 weeks healthy, fresh, nutritious delivered meals with fruit and welfare visits for 1 vulnerable person, helping with recovery and wellbeing after a hospital stay, facilitating their discharge home and maintaining their health and wellbeing longterm.

 – £4 covers the cost of 1 healthy, fresh, nutritious meals

To set up a standing order or make a one off donation, however large or small, it’s hugely appreciated and will go a long way:

East Brighton Food CIC

Account Number: 38650998

Sort Code: 23-05-80

THANK YOU

Saving surplus food and cooking fresh healthy meals for vulnerable people in the UK

A 3 day stay in hospital costs the same as 1 years healthy meals on wheel

 

Sunday 10 May, from midday, Bryan and a brilliant team of volunteers hosted the EBFC BBQ for Brighton Fringe, Brighton Dome and the Our Place Community Fun Day in East Brighton,  delicious food and lots of fun had by all.

Poster advertising Brighton Fringe and Brighton Dome sponsored Our Place, Community Free Fun Day Event, with EBFC BBQ, this Sunday 10 May 2026

EBFC smashed the Christmas Fundraiser target of £10,000, thanks to 93 individual pledges of support made to the East Brighton Food Cooperative’s AVIVA ‘ Double your Money ‘ Christmas Fundraiser 2025.

Thank you so much for your kindness & generosity in supporting the AVIVA’s ‘ Double your Money’ Christmas Fundraiser for EBFC’s award winning community Meals on Wheels and surplus food redistribution service  across the city of Brighton & Hove

The fund was successfully closed on the 2nd January 2026. This funding will literally keep the ovens and lights on and the wheels turning.

The EBFC will be publicly releasing their latest national report ” MALNUTRITION in the UK – the invisible problem costing our NHS £22+ Billion annually ” on the 26th January 2026 which will make national recommendations the will save the taxpayer billions whilst increasing the quality of life and care for millions.

This report after being launched in November  as part of ageUK ‘s ” National Malnutrition Awareness Week 2025  ” is now being peer reviewed so it will be ready for public release.

Sharing the importance of well-managed hospital discharge to ensure that people leaving hospital are equipped with individualised nutritional care plans where necessary and the importance of daily fresh, healthy, nutritious meals for the frail and elderly.

MALNUTRITION IN THE UK. THE INVISIBLE PROBLEM COSTING THE NHS 22 BILLION A YEAR.

The wonderful Tribe family are kindly donating their Dad’s funeral donations to East Brighton Food Co-op on behalf of their dearly departed Dad, Dennis Tribe, who sadly passed away in summer 2025. When Dennis was well he delivered meals on wheels and was a big advocate for meals on wheels, Dennis’s daughter Maria came into our kitchen to meet us and helped make some of our EBFC Vegetarian Infinity Burgers with volunteer Haka. We are so grateful for their support. There is a huge amount of goodwill and kindness that helps to keep our service going. 

    

Fresh Spinach, Roast Butternut, Tumeric pasta meal from East Brighton Food Co-opStudent, Jaya photographed with some of East Brighton Food Co-op's fresh, healthy, nutritious meals, ready to be delivered across Brighton & Hove to those recently discharged form hospital

 

East Brighton Food Co-operatives’s founder Bryan Coyle was invited to speak at Malnutrition Awareness week in November 2025 – timetable and links below.

UK/MAW 2025 Timetable : The Focus of the Week.

,Monday: Malnutrition Screening – Tuesday: Challenges & Solutions – WEDNESDAY: Bryan Coyle 1pm -HOSPITAL DISCHARGE –

Thirsty Thursday – Friday: Every Contact Counts

Link Malnutrition Awareness Week website. https://www.bapen.org.uk/malnutrition/uk-malnutrition-awareness-week/

 

 

 

If you would like to volunteer for cooking, delivering, admin or anything else please contact: janet@eastbrightonfoodcoop.uk

 

Our original pilot project was funded by Nesta and the Dunhill Medical Trust’s Social Movement for Health in addition to Causewayed

 

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