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TwitterBradford is juicing up fresh solutions to the Cost-of-Living and Climate Crises
Tonnes of apples go to waste all over Bradford District. Fruit Works Co-operative have established a coordinated juicing equipment library and service that diverts these surplus apples to four communities hubs.
This year, in autumn 2025, the project is supported by Fruit Works, but going forward it will be a self-funding enterprise for the four community hubs in Keighley, Shipley and Bradford. There are 4 ways the equipment can be used, depending on your needs.
Juice it yourself
Juice it for Fun
Juice it for you
Juice it with you.
Juice It Yourself
You borrow the kit for yourself, your family, friends, street or community group to make your own juice.
Juice It For Fun
The kit is used as part of a Community Apple Day, where people come together to celebrate the harvest.
Juice It For You
You bring your apples to one of the community hubs and they press them and bottle the juice for you.
Juice It With You
You bring your apples to one of the community hubs to make your own juice there, with their equipment.
In Leeds with Leeds Urban Harvest we are lucky enough to juice it up across the city.
Like Bradford, each year, thousands of fruit trees across Leeds go unpicked or unused because their owners can’t harvest them or there is too much fruit to use at one time.
Leeds Urban Harvest is a volunteer run community project that lends picking and processing equipment to groups to make juice from their excess apples.
Because there are more apples than people to juice them they also press and make use of surplus fruit donated by people, which would otherwise go to waste.
Four ways you can get involved in Leeds and fight the Cost-of-Living and Climate Crises
Let’s share the abundance
Browse our website for more Cost-of-Living and Climate Crisis solutions including:
Leeds Food Aid Map Find 140+ pantries, cafes and food aid businesses if you need emergency food.
Healthy Holidays More about Healthy Holidays ( HAF) recently funded for the next three years! Read more.
Healthy Start Go to this page for information on Healthy Start and for links to other Family Food and Wellbeing services such as free school meals and uniform, money and welfare advice and more.
Incredible Edible sites map (who have 20 groups, 70 sites and 150 raised beds across the city offering free vegetable, fruit and herbs to the public and other
