Tag: FareShare

Cost of living crisis causing loneliness epidemic for young people 

Stuart Mitchell

Almost half (42%) of 18 to 24 year-olds in the UK are cutting back on socialising with friends due to the cost of living crisis, according to a new YouGov survey from FareShare, the UK’s largest charity tackling food waste for social good.   Charities across the FareShare network have expressed growing concern about the impact of loneliness and isolation on the wellbeing of people they support, including more younger people.  The survey shows that over half (52%) of 25 to 34 year olds will avoid meeting with friends this…

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Cost Of Living Crisis Continues To Hit Women Hardest

Stuart Mitchell

Research shows over 75% of people accessing food support from charity FareShare are women In the latest survey by FareShare, the UK’s largest charity tackling food waste to support social good, a staggering three-quarters of respondents were women. This suggests that women are significantly more likely to access food support from the charity, as they struggle to make ends meet under the ongoing pressure of the cost of living crisis*. The findings from FareShare have been released at a time when the impact of the cost of living crisis on…

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Asda donates 1m breakfasts to mark decade of FareShare partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Asda announces that it will provide the equivalent of one million breakfast meals to mark 10 years of its partnership with FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and tackling food waste. The donations are being provided via Asda’s wholly owned subsidiary IPL and will consist of a portion of cereal as well as a piece of fruit supplied to the Magic Breakfasts programme via FareShare. Asda has worked in partnership with FareShare since 2013 and in that time, it has provided the equivalent of over 30 million meals of…

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Sainsbury’s donates more than one million meals to communities to mark new partnership with FareShare supporting the Coronation Food Project

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s is donating one million fresh meals to support families in need this winter to mark the launch of a new partnership with FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity tackling food waste to support social good. More than one million meals will be supplied by two of Sainsbury’s fresh food suppliers, Greencore and Cranswick, and distributed to families and those in need through FareShare over the winter period. The donation marks the start of FareShare’s Alliance Manufacturing programme which will see Sainsbury’s and the food industry working together to utilise surplus…

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Yorkshire Building Society’s £1 million pledge to help people into FareShare’s employability schemes and out of financial hardship

Stuart Mitchell

Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) has announced FareShare as its Charity Partner for the next two years, pledging £1 million to support an employability programme that will help 2,500 people enter the world of work. The aftermath of the pandemic and the ongoing cost of living crisis have exacerbated the scale of financial hardship and food insecurity in the UK. More than 14 million people across the UK are living in relative poverty.1 One in four people of working age are currently out of work and unemployment levels are expected to…

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