About Us

History This idea of trying to use the local apples first arose at a Transition Epsom meeting. I then mentioned it to Jon Sharpe, the Borough Recycling Officer. He liked the idea and could see good potential for waste reduction, so we decided to include the funding for an apple crusher and an apple press in the funding request made by PartnerCHIP to the Borough Environment Committee.

PartnerCHIP’s main activities are in providing compost demonstrations and advice, and also a shredder hire service, so this apple press project fits in well with the existing activites. In the first instance. For more information about PartnerCHIP, the website is here

Organisation. “Epsom Apples” will be administered by PartnerCHIP rather than setting up a separate organisation. We did some research, and found that “Vigo” Apple Crushers and Presses are very sturdy and have reasonable prices, so we applied for the funds for these. Slightly to our surprise, the Environment Committee approved all of the funding, and the crusher and press have now been delivered.

"Epsom Apples" is administered in this way for convenience - if there are more volunteers, we are very happy for it to become a seperate organisation

Business Model. We hope to recover some of our expenses .....

1. If someone brings apples to us, we will press them and give them backsome of the juice - about a fifth of the weight of the apples
2. Any remaining juice will be sold for 50p a cup
3. If we come to your premises and crush your apples you, we would suggest a donation of £1 per litre, depending on how much work you do and what we do.

Donations will be shared between the Mayor's Charities and "Tools for Self Reliance" and also used to defray expenses for equipment costs (about £140)