Tag: Felix

One million tins of baked beans delivered to Felix to help tackle UK hunger

Stuart Mitchell

The innovative partnership between Princes, Waitrose, Alliance Food Sourcing (AFS) and Felix will see one million tins of the store cupboard staple delivered to our network of over 8,000 charities and community groups Unfortunately the demand for food amongst the charities and organisations Felix supplies keeps rising. That is why projects like this are vital, it not only shows what partnerships and innovative thinking can achieve, it ensures Felix, which is the new name for merged charities FareShare and The Felix Project, receives a steady supply of a much sought…

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Felix finds over half of parents feel financial strain during holidays

Stuart Mitchell

A food rescue charity has found the school holidays are creating significant financial pressure for families, with nearly three in five parents saying household budgets come under greater strain when children are off school. The research by Felix, formerly The Felix Project and FareShare, found that 58% of parents and carers experience more financial pressure during school holidays, with 17% saying the pressure is significantly greater. A key driver of the increased financial pressure is the cost of feeding their children. Three-quarters (76%) say they spend at least £20 more per…

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Felix, Freshlinc and Magnavale Announce Tri-Partner Alliance to Tackle Food Waste Across the UK Cold Chain

Stuart Mitchell

Magnavale, one of the UK’s leading temperature-controlled storage and value-added food services specialist, has today announced a formal tri-partner alliance with the UK’s largest food redistribution charity Felix – formerly FareShare and The Felix Project, and Freshlinc, the specialist temperature-controlled logistics provider. Together, the three organisations will combine their respective expertise in cold storage, charitable food redistribution and refrigerated transport to create a seamlessly integrated solution for rescuing and redirecting surplus frozen, ambient and chilled food to those who need it most across the United Kingdom. The partnership brings together complementary strengths…

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bp and Felix deepen long-term partnership to help millions across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

bp and Felix have announced the next phase of their long-standing partnership, with bp providing multi-year flexible funding to support Felix’s work redistributing surplus food to millions of people across the UK. The funding will support Felix’s core operations, giving the charity flexibility to direct resources where they are most needed and strengthen the operational infrastructure that underpins food redistribution at scale. In its first year, the renewed partnership could enable Felix to deliver the equivalent of 10 million meals to children and their families.  The next phase of the partnership…

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UK charities struggling to stay afloat in face of increasing demand says new research from food rescue charity Felix

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s largest food rescue charity has found more than 80% of the organisations it supplies could be at risk were it not for the redistributed surplus food they receive.  A survey of more than 2,700 UK charities has found that without that rescued food, 32% would have to close their food support and 52% would need to scale back their offer because they could not otherwise afford the food they need.  Since 91% of those charities provide wrap around services such as employment support, financial and legal advice, or other activities…

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