Tag: FareShare

Waitrose celebrates major milestone reached with 25 million meals provided to FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose has announced that, as of February 2025, it has diverted the equivalent of 25 million meals from surplus food, delivered from over 300 stores and distribution centres, to people in need through FareShare. The retailer has committed to halving food waste in its operations and supply chains by 2030, and helping customers do so at home by the same date. The partnership with FareShare is fundamental in helping divert surplus food from branches and distribution centres and saving it from becoming waste.  2024 was Waitrose’s best year ever for…

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Government Announces £15m Fund To Save Surplus Farm Food

Stuart Mitchell

In a joint statement, Charlotte Hill, CEO of The Felix Project, and Kris Gibbon-Walsh, CEO of FareShare, said: “Following years of campaigning by FareShare and The Felix Project, we are delighted that this fund will become a reality. We are pleased that the government has recognised that too much food goes to waste on our farms and that it should be redistributed to feed people who need it. It is vital that the scheme is delivered in a manner that maximises the redistribution of surplus food to those who need…

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Enjoy Breakfast Your Way this autumn and winter with Nestle and FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

This autumn, Nestlé are once again donating thousands more jars of Nescafé Coffee and boxes of Shreddies to FareShare to go towards breakfast for people across the UK. “We are enormously grateful to the team at Nestlé UK & Cereal Partners UK for their continued support for FareShare and launching the “Enjoy Breakfast Your Way” campaign this autumn. For nearly 20 years, Nestlé UK has been providing their surplus products to help support our network of over 8,000 charities across the UK, including after school and breakfast clubs, hospices, domestic…

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FareShare Announces Leadership Change For Next Decade Of Impact

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare, the UK’s largest food surplus redistribution charity, today announced that its CEO, George Wright, has decided to leave FareShare next year and will move into an advisory role, focusing on critical strategic initiatives and partnerships. George has overseen a period of growth and network expansion and has helped foster key government and industry partnerships. In this planned move as part of FareShare’s succession plans, George will continue to play a vital role, particularly in supporting the organisation’s collaboration with the industry on food redistribution policies and initiatives as FareShare marks…

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KPMG UK and FareShare launch new three-year charity partnership

Stuart Mitchell

KPMG UK has selected FareShare as its new national charity partner. The three-year charity partnership will see the two organisations working together to make sure good food goes to people, not waste. A firmwide vote took place in April this year, with KPMG’s people choosing to tackle the issues of food waste and hunger. This follows a very successful three-year charity partnership with end-of-life charity, Marie Curie, which concluded on 30 September 2024. KPMG UK’s 18,000 people will provide £2 million worth of support to FareShare through fundraising, volunteering, pro…

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