Tag: FareShare

SPAR launches ‘Giving One Million Meals’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

SPAR has launched its ‘Giving One Million Meals’ partnership with FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and tackling food waste. “We understand how important it is to have the cupboard essentials you need to hand and it’s really interesting to see how our essentials have changed over the years and which are still our firm favourites. Our partnership with FareShare will see £250,000 donated, and for every £1 given FareShare can redistribute enough food for the equivalent of four meals to people in need across the UK.”Suzanne Dover, Brand…

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Evening Standard backs FareShare’s call to government

Stuart Mitchell

Last month the Evening Standard ran an investigation into the staggering 2.9million tons of good-to-eat food that is going to waste on UK farms, while soaring numbers of people go hungry nationwide – read here The paper reports on how just a tiny percentage of a £750m per year subsidy for waste plants would help deliver an additional 100million meals to struggling families across the UK. George Wright, the CEO of FareShare, is featured calling on the Government to help the charity to get more good to eat food to people who need it. Responding to the article, George said:…

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‘Enjoy Breakfast your Way’ with Nestle and FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

This autumn, Nestlé are donating thousands of jars of Nescafé Coffee and boxes of Shreddies to FareShare to help families across the UK. Alongside the surplus food Nestlé donates on a regular basis, this generous provision will ensure that more children and families can start their day with a nutritious breakfast. Nestlé are celebrating their long-standing partnership with FareShare by launching an eight week ‘Enjoy Breakfast your Way’ campaign, exclusively in Tesco stores from Wednesday 4 October. At FareShare we believe that no one should go hungry. But across the…

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Big Zuu calls on public to share chicken recipes

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare and KFC have teamed up with self-taught chef and TV personality Big Zuu to source the nation’s favourite chicken recipes to help feed people going hungry this summer. “The chicken KFC provides is vital to us because it provides the people and communities we cook for with a source of protein they would otherwise go without.”Zahra Sul, Community Kitchen Chef at The SPACE Hub The #DishUp campaign aims to inspire community kitchen chefs with new ways of cooking up KFC chicken, redistributed through FareShare Go, and forms part of…

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Sodexo and FareShare partnership reaches £1.5m funding milestone

Stuart Mitchell

With a shared commitment to fighting food insecurity and food waste Sodexo and FareShare, the UK’s leading food redistribution charity, have been working together since 2005 and this year is celebrating a milestone with the total financial support donated from the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation to FareShare reaching an amazing £1.5 million. Over the duration of its partnership the financial support from Sodexo has helped cover the logistics costs which form a huge part of the charity’s operation, enabling it to increase the volume of surplus food being redistributed across…

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