Tag: FareShare

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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Pink Lady® donates 150,000 apples to FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

Pink Lady® has donated 150,000 apples to FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and food waste, in a tie-in with its family-friendly PinKids® apples. In support of the FareShare donation and the brand’s ongoing work with the charity, packs of PinKids® apples in Aldi stores nationwide will highlight the partnership between November and January, with the strapline “Share the Wow”. PinKids® are smaller Pink Lady® apples which are the perfect size for children’s snacks and lunchboxes. The packs communicate to consumers that their purchase of the lunchbox favourite is…

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M&S Food donates one million fresh and healthy meals to families in new partnership with FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has recently announced a new partnership with FareShare, the UK’s largest charity fighting food insecurity and waste. Working with one of its biggest fresh food suppliers, 2 Sisters Food Group, M&S will donate one million freshly prepared, nutritious ready meals from its ‘Eat Well’ range in the eight weeks leading up to Christmas. In an industry first, the meals will be made at three 2 Sisters Food Group manufacturing sites and donated to FareShare directly from the M&S Food supply chain. M&S Food’s deep supplier partnerships and…

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Give big with the Big Give this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

This winter, FareShare is tackling loneliness and building community by taking part in the Big Give’s Christmas Challenge — the UK’s biggest match-funded campaign.  Between 25 November and 5 December, the Big Give is once again giving you the opportunity to double your donation if you choose to give via the Big Give’s website. During this period, the first £14,000 donated will be match funded by a combination of FareShare’s charity partners and the Big Give’s champion supporters.  By donating to FareShare’s campaign, you could help unlock an additional £14,000…

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