Robin Ferris, Bankuet: ending food poverty in the UK 🚚🥗

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Founders For Good

Craig Turner

75 episodes

4 months ago

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Robin Ferris, Bankuet: ending food poverty in the UK 🚚🥗

Founders For Good

1 hour 3 minutes

2 years ago

Robin Ferris, Bankuet: ending food poverty in the UK 🚚🥗

Robin Ferris is the CEO and Founder of Bankuet.

With the cost of living crisis and inflation, food poverty in the UK is at it’s worst. This year 9.3 million people in the UK will experience food insecurity and in the last year 1 million people have used food banks for the first time.

Volunteering in his local food bank, Robin saw firsthand the challenges that food banks face and how they would struggle to meet the continued increasing demand.

Robin wanted to build a tech platform that would make it was easy and simple for people to donate, whilst making their money go further. And also making sure food banks got the food and items they needed, when they needed them.

In 2019, Bankuet was born with the vision for no one in the UK to go hungry. Since then, they have partnered with over 300 food banks across the UK and delivered over 2.8 million food and household items to help tackle food poverty.

Highlights:

03.23: The harsh reality of food poverty in the UK
07.15: Things are only going to get worse and less food is being donated
10.53: The food bank system, how it all works
17.08: The story of Bankuet
31.26: The power of technology to solve social issues
39.53: Build brand awareness and attracting donations
43.31: Bankuet is for profit, building a scalable impact business model
49.06: Internal operations, managing volunteers and part time staff remotely around the UK
55.33: The future plans for Bankuet
59.22: Meeting King Charles

Our Host:
Craig Turner. Founder of Confido Talent, a business that helps Tech For Good startups to scale their product, design and engineering teams.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigturner7/ / www.confidotalent.com / craig@confidotalent.com

Our Guest:
Robin Ferris, Founder and CEO of Bankuet.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinjferris/ / https://www.bankuet.co.uk/
Donate here >> https://www.bankuet.co.uk/givenow

Our Sponsor:
Jobs For Good. The only job platform to find the best jobs in sustainability, impact and much more.
www.jobsforgood.io / https://bit.ly/3wjwJa0

Our Producer:
Jabriel Al-Suhaimi. Jabriel is a podcast aficionado, editing and producing podcasts for many, including himself.
https://www.jabrielalsuhaimi.com/ / https://twitter.com/jabealsuhaimi