Our Thoughts on: Food & Climatarian Diet

Cherwell Collective’s Climatarian Kitchen is thrilled to welcome renowned Chef Gregg Brown to our team for Waterperry Opera Festival. Gregg is a passionate educator and chef who understands the importance…

After a successful first season catering for the Waterperry Opera Festival in 2025, Cherwell Collective’s Climatarian Kitchen is pleased to announce that it will once again partner with the festival…

This Thursday we had the pleasure of being joined by Jonathan Fraser, director of Fraser’s Budgens, at WISH in Kidlington.  Jonathan and his colleague Sophie, Popped into wish to support…

On Wednesday, February 18th, we hosted our first half-term activity of the year: a Valentine’s-themed pastry activity for children at WISH. During the event, the children cut out shapes from…

Climatarian Kitchen’s café will now be open every weekday, Monday- Friday, from 10am-5pm at WISH in Kidlington. Enjoy soup, sandwiches, pudding, and hot drinks.

This year, we made a conscious decision to do things a little differently for our ‘Beat the Winter Blues’ Big Lunch for the Community. Since 2021, we’ve loved taking part…

We want to share a story of a very special new volunteer of ours at Cherwell Collective. Once a month we host, in partnership with Cherwell District Council, global majority…

In 2023, Cherwell Collective published a four-part series exploring the Carbon Cost of Christmas. It was a closer look at how some of the UK’s most cherished festive traditions contribute…

We save surplus holiday food that grocers cannot sell in time so it doesn’t go to waste. You take it home to enjoy, and pay-what-you-can.

What comes to mind when you hear “food surplus”? Charity kitchens? Unsold supermarket stock? Crates of “ugly” fruit and vegetables destined for landfill? Rarely do we associate surplus food with…

On a recent Saturday afternoon, the WISH community space transformed into my grandma’s kitchen in North India, full of fragrant spices and old-school Bollywood music. After moving away from home,…

This editorial is written with support from our writer Michael Hines. Connally and Hines discuss the need to make climate literacy more widely available and free of charge.

Our Director writes about the free meal program for children that Cherwell Collective supported this summer. Learn why we chose to support these programs and why we plan to continue…