Rainbow Junk-tion

Welcome to Rainbow Junk-tion – the All Hallows’ Cafe.

This cafe, founded by Paul Magnall, opened its doors on 11th September 2014 as part of The Real Junk Food Project network. A lot has happened in that time and in 2018 it became an independent Pay-As-You-Feel community cafe. The aims of the cafe continue to be to reduce food waste, feed hungry people and build community. You can read more about our aims here.

Rainbow Junktion is one of many cafes that  intercepts food that would otherwise go to waste from supermarkets, restaurants and a number of other sources, and turns it into healthy, nutritious meals for anyone and everyone on a pay-as-you-feel donation basis.

COVID-19 News

Rainbow Junktion has stayed open throughout the covid 19 crisis, switching to takeaway only service so as to be able to continue to provide food to the community in the safest way possible. We also now have a pay-as-you-feel shop with essentials for people to take home. We are incredibly grateful to all the volunteers who have made this possible. Our opening hours are currently:

• 11:30am-3pm Monday and Thursday (food served 12-2.30) as a Pay-as-you-feel cafe and signposting service

• 11.30am-4pm Friday as a Foodshare (shopping only)

Please come and see us if you are struggling and spread the word to anyone who may benefit from our services. 

You can see more about what we are doing here:

Our three main aims are:

• to reduce food waste
• to reduce food poverty
• to build community

Reducing Food Waste

Between 30% and 50% of all food produced ends up being wasted. Some of this food has involved huge amounts of time, energy, care, fertilisers, pesticides, and money to produce. Then it’s been processed and transported half way round the world for it to be rejected and sent to landfill. This is seen by some of us as criminal when so many people are starving and when we are also concerned about Climate Change.

By intercepting waste food and using it to help feed people we aim to reduce food waste and to educate ourselves and others about how unsustainable this is.

Reducing Food Poverty

There is more than enough food being produced to feed everyone in the world! Some people calculate that we produce 150% of our food requirements globally. It’s just that it is not distributed fairly. By intercepting waste and using it to feed people on a Pay As You Feel basis we aim to reduce food poverty without taking away people’s pride.

Building Community

Many of our communities have been devastated over the years. We are encouraged to think of “them” and “us” and to fear “them”. By bringing people from all walks of life together around a table of food, side by side in the kitchen and working together to reduce food waste and food poverty “we” hope to build better community where “we” can trust and support each other.