FareShare Fighting Hunger and Tackling Food Waste
FareShare is a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty and is at the centre of two of the most urgent issues that face the UK: food poverty and food waste.
Established in 1994 as a project within the homelessness charity Crisis, FareShare aims to help vulnerable groups within our communities.
FareShare has been operating since 2004 as an independent charity and today has 17 locations around the UK.
The charity addresses these issues in three ways: -
- Providing quality food - surplus 'fit for purpose' product from the food and drink industry - to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community
- Providing training and education around the essential life skills of safe food preparation and nutrition, and warehouse employability training through FareShare's Eat Well Live Well programme
- Promoting the message that 'No Good Food Should Be Wasted'
In 2011/12, the food redistributed by FareShare contributed towards more than 8.6 million meals and the FareShare Community Food Network has 720 Community Members across the UK receiving food, training and advice.
Every day an average of 36,500 people benefit from the service FareShare provides.
As well as redistributing food, FareShare provides a programme of education and vocational training opportunities - the Eat Well, Live Well programme.
FareShare helps the environment because the redistribution of food by FareShare minimises surplus food going to landfill and this redistribution helped businesses reduce CO2 emissions by 1,800 tonnes in 2011/12.
For more information visit www.fareshare.org.uk