FareShare

Supporting communities to relieve
food poverty

• FareShare is a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty
• FareShare is at the centre of two of the most urgent issues that face the UK - food poverty and food waste
• The charity addresses these issues in three ways:

Providing quality food - surplus ‘fit for purpose’ product from the food and drink industry - to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community

Providing training and education around the essential life skills of safe food preparation and nutrition, and warehouse employability training through FareShare’s Eat Well Live Well programme

Promoting the message that ‘No Good Food Should Be Wasted’

FareShare has been operating since 2004 as an independent charity and today has 14 locations around the UK. Established in 1994 as a project within the homelessness charity Crisis, FareShare aims to help vulnerable groups, whether they are homeless, elderly, children, or other groups in food poverty within our communities.

FareShare Helps Improve Lives:

• In 2009/10, the food redistributed by
  FareShare contributed towards more than
  6.7 million meals
• The FareShare Community Food Network
  has 600 Community Members across
  the UK receiving food, training and
  advice
• Every day an average of 29,000 people
  benefit from the service FareShare
  provides
• As well as redistributing food, FareShare
  provides a programme of education and
  vocational training opportunities - the
  Eat Well Live Well programme

FareShare Helps The Environment:

• The redistribution of food by FareShare minimises surplus food going to landfill
• This redistribution of food helped businesses reduce CO2 emissions by 12,600 tonnes in 2009/10

FareShare's Vision

FareShare is embarking on a vision that will see the charity more than triple its impact.
FareShare aims to:

• Redistribute 20,000 tonnes of food per year
• Everyday support 100,000 vulnerable people through food provision; as well as provide training and education through our Eat Well Live Well programme
• Offer 6,000 volunteer opportunities
• Provide nutritious food to 2,200 community organisations and charities

via fareshare.org.uk