Tag: FareShare

FareShare’s Fuller Lives Summer Campaign Hits UK Billboards with JCDecaux

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare, in partnership with the JCDecaux Community Channel, this week launches Out-of-Home advertising on billboards across the UK. The campaign will run from July 7th to August 6th, 2025, and aims to raise awareness of FareShare and its work to support children and families over the summer holidays. The ads will be featured across advertising screens in key locations, including Manchester, London and the West Midlands. The JCDecaux Community Channel enables not-for-profit organisations to access digital Out-of-Home locations, aligning with their purpose and values. FareShare’s “Fuller Lives” summer campaign focuses…

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Müller donates four million meals through FareShare, supporting its mission to build Stronger Communities across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Müller UK & Ireland has reached a significant milestone: donating the equivalent of four million meals through its partnership with FareShare, the UK’s largest food redistribution charity. This ongoing partnership supports vulnerable people across the UK by transforming surplus and donated food into vital meals. FareShare redistributes good-to-eat surplus food and donations from the food industry to a network of over 8,500 charities and community groups, from breakfast clubs and hospices to domestic abuse refuges and homelessness services. Müller’s consistent donations of quality dairy products, such as milk and yogurts,…

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Four major supermarkets launch joint campaign to help fight hunger in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

One in seven people go hungry in the UK, 2.7 million of them children and in community centres, schools and shelters across the country, the demand for meals is only increasing. The food industry working together:The food industry is joining forces to help tackle the issue, at scale, through a new campaign and a new coalition. On May 19th, the Let’s make a meal of it campaign launches across four major supermarkets – one of the most ambitious retailer collaborations to date, to help fight hunger in the UK. It…

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Kris Gibbon-Walsh Named Permanent Fareshare CEO And Dominic Blakemore Appointed Chair Of Trustees

Stuart Mitchell

Following an external recruitment process, FareShare has announced that Kris Gibbon-Walsh has now been appointed as CEO, having held the position as interim since October 2024.  Dominic Blakemore has also been appointed FareShare’s Chair of Trustees, following the announcement that John Bason will be stepping down from the role after serving as Chair for 13 years.  John Bason’s time as Chair oversaw a significant expansion of FareShare, which now redistributes food to over a million people across the UK every year.  Dominic Blakemore, CEO of global food service company Compass…

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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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