connect 2019 • 31 Strength to Strength: Recent FoodCloud Highlights “The partnership we’ve established with FoodCloud has been nothing short of amazing. They come in and don’t just tell us what they have, they ask us what we need. We are now able to provide hot meals as well as food for home to families fight- ing addiction and their children who are affected. The hot meal those children get here in our community facility may be their only hot meal of the day, but they get it thanks to FoodCloud.” — Shane Hamilton, Coordinator at Jobstown Assisting Drug Dependency (JADD) “We are providing for hundreds of people every night from soup kitchens to youth clubs to feed- ing the elderly. Thanks to FoodCloud we are also serving healthier options at a lower cost instead of fat-filled food. Now, we can offer more with more impact. The difference is massive.” — Anthony Flynn, Director of Inner City Helping Homeless FoodCloud announced a new partnership with Nestlé Ireland who have agreed to donate their surplus food and pay FoodCloud Hubs for every pallet of goods, which will cover the cost of managing, storing and redistributing any unforeseen food surplus FoodCloud won the Community Recycling Project of the Year award from the Repak Recycling Pakman Awards for their work connecting businesses and charities in communities across Ireland, avoiding food waste FoodCloud presented at the European Policy Centre in Brussels on Digitisation as an Enabler for the Circular Economy. FoodCloud Founder Iseult Ward presented at the Forbes 30 under 30 conference in Amsterdam with a focus on how its solutions support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. FoodCloud launched its Galway Hub to further meet the needs to charities and communities in the West of Ireland, helping food producers and distributors get their surplus food to the people who need it most.