Tag: FareShare Midlands

FareShare Calls on Midlands’ Food Producers as Supplies to Local Charities Run Low

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare – the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and food waste – is calling on farmers, food producers and retailers in the Midlands to help get good-to-eat food, which may otherwise go to waste, to its network of over 500 charities. The Spring Budget failed to acknowledge the soaring levels of food insecurity across the UK. FareShare’s network partners across the region are struggling to keep up with unprecedented levels of demand from the charities they support. Without much needed additional government funding, FareShare and its network are relying on…

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FareShare Midlands Launches Meal Production Initiative at Loxley House with Nottingham City Council and Sainsbury’s

Stuart Mitchell

In July, FareShare Midlands launched an innovative new meal production project in the commercial kitchen at Loxley House, Nottingham City Council’s HQ. In partnership with Nottingham Catering at the City Council, FareShare UK and Sainsbury’s, FareShare Midlands will produce meals that will be delivered directly to local charitable and not-for-profit organisations who are tackling hunger, poverty and the escalating effects of the cost of living crisis. Turning an environmental problem into a social solution, FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity. Currently, 8.4m people in the UK are…

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