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Food for thought: Jo Hercberg and René Meijer, directors at the Real Junk Food Project Sheffield realjunkfoodsheffield.com Founded: 2015 Income: £200k (projected; £153k last financial year) Number of employees: 9, of whom 3 are part-time The assumption that many people jump to is that the Real Junk Food Sheffield project is about feeding the homeless or relieving food poverty, says founder and chief executive Jo Hercberg. "We're not a poverty project, but even the Jobcentre is referring people to us," she says. For her, the three-year-old social enterprise is mainly an environmental organisation: "We want to stamp out food waste. Our point is that we could feed the hungry and there would still be tonnes of waste."
The Sheffield project is a member of a grass-roots...