The Community Fridge was a social experiment to see whether people would donate their excess food if there was a place to do so, and whether people in need would take free food from a public fridge.
So what did we find?
The fridge launched to much acclaim, with thousands of people sharing their support for the idea via social media.
Many different people donated food to the fridge – from individuals leaving produce from their gardens or bottles of milk, to businesses like Cookie Time donating food which had passed its best before date, to cafés and bakeries like Scarecrow, Hollywood Bakery and Massimo Albany donating salads and baked goods.
Almost as quickly as the food went into the fridge, it went out again. Over 1,000 food items passed through the fridge in the first week alone. All sorts of people needed and wanted the food – rough sleepers, students, backpackers and even the …