Business Model Canvas — Food Rescue Charity
Surplus-food charity whose beneficiaries and funders are different people, showing grant and corporate income against van and warehouse costs, with a deliberately empty partner block naming the supermarket relationships nobody has written down.
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title "Second Harvest Bristol — surplus food rescue"
layout bmc
currency GBP
# On a charity canvas the customer and the beneficiary are different
# people. Both belong in segments, or the revenue block makes no sense.
segments: "Food banks and community pantries (beneficiaries)" !, "Trusts and foundations (funders)" !, "Corporate ESG teams buying volunteering days" ?
value: "Edible surplus diverted from landfill within 24 hours" !, "Audited tonnage and carbon figures a funder can publish" !, "Chilled logistics no single pantry could run alone" !
channels: "Referrals from the regional food-bank network" !, "Grant portals and trust application windows" !, "Corporate volunteering marketplaces" ?
relationships: "A named coordinator for every pantry" !, "Quarterly impact report to every funder" !, "Volunteer rota run on WhatsApp" !
revenue: "Restricted grants 285k/yr" !, "Corporate volunteering 640/session x 9/mo" ?, "Individual regular giving 3100/mo" !
resources: "Two refrigerated 3.5 tonne vans" !, "Chilled warehouse on a peppercorn lease" !, "84 trained volunteer drivers" !
activities: "Daily collection rounds from 31 stores" !, "Cold-chain compliance and temperature records" !, "Grant reporting and reapplication" !
# Nothing written down. Every round depends on a supermarket relationship
# that lives in one person's phone, and the empty block says so.
partners:
costs: "Warehouse, chiller and power 5400/mo" !, "Van leases, fuel and maintenance 3900/mo" !, "Six paid staff 214k/yr" !, "Insurance and food-safety audit 900/mo" !