PopCycle Fruit POps

PopCycle is a social enterprise project with the Kamloops Food Policy Council that creates tasty fruitpops using fruit harvested through our Gleaning Abundance Program.

You can find us at the Farmers' Market every Saturday. You can also find us at special events throughout the summer:

• Overlanders Day or July 21st

• Kamloops Pride Festival on August 25th

• We sell in Bulk too!

Speaking to the Cycle:

• Kamloops reveals in an abundance of fruit during the summer.

• Volunteers with the Gleaning Abundance Program harvest some of this fruit.

• The harvests are shared with the tree owners, volunteers and community agencies.

• This excess fruit gets turned into fruitpops.

• Our sales from the fruitopos cycle back into the food action programs run by the Kamloops Food Policy Council.

Calling Volunteers - Come Join Us in the Kitchen!

Do you enjoy working in the kitchen? Come join us for an hour or two!

We will be processing fresh fruit from the Gleaning Abundance Program (GAP) and using it to make our PopCycle fruitpops!

Volunteer Duties:

• Chopping, pitting, and freezing fruit

• Dispensing fruit and yogurt mixtures into fruitpop molds

• Removing fruitpops from molds and packaging them

What is a Social Enterprise

In a nutshell, a social enterprise is a business venture run by a non-profit. Revenue is returned to the business/non-profit to help it be self-sufficient, or it can be used to fund some other social purpose. Our aim is to generate revenue for GAP and the KFPC to have more stable core funding.

PopCycle received aid through the City of Kamloops, which helped pay for a mentorship program called Purppl (Purposeful People). Through Purppl, we received hands-on training in business planning, decision - making and processes.

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