Tag: OLIO

FareShare and OLIO team up with Booker Wholesale to get food to people in need

Stuart Mitchell

Food redistribution charity FareShare and free sharing app OLIO have partnered with wholesale operator Booker to provide much needed food to vulnerable people across the UK and to help reduce food waste. “We are really pleased to be partnering with FareShare and Olio.  Over the past year we have donated the equivalent of over six million meals to local charities and good causes and this will really help us build upon this success. ”Catherine Marston, Sustainability Manager at Booker Booker is leading the way for wholesale organisations by being the…

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Path Financial named as a winner of Sky Zero Footprint Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Path Financial – the first and only national financial advisory firm in the UK set up specifically to tackle the climate crisis – has been awarded the exceptional prize of a minimum of £250K in media value, after being chosen as one of five winners of the high-profile Sky Zero Footprint Fund. The Sky Zero Footprint Fund is a £2 million advertising fund set-up by Sky to accelerate and amplify business initiatives which are driving positive behavioural change for a more sustainable world.  Path Financial is the only financial company…

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Tesco partners with OLIO in ground-breaking scheme to cut food waste

Stuart Mitchell

An innovative scheme to stop more surplus food from going to waste and re-distribute it amongst members of the local community will be rolled out across the UK by Tesco.  The supermarket has partnered with food sharing app and social enterprise OLIO to help reduce food waste in stores across the UK in a move which should help feed more people in crisis in the local community.  The new partnership builds on Tesco’s existing food surplus donations programme, including its Community Food Connection scheme with FareShare, which already sees it donate 2 million meals every…

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