Fareshare

Many families struggle as food and childcare costs increase over the holiday period. That's why our #ActiveAte programme supports clubs like Bilton Hall near Newcastle so that they can continue providing this vital service to their communities, and ensure children get an active and varied experience as well as the nutrition they need over the holidays. Read more and help us support holiday projects across the UK this summer: http://fareshare.org.uk/activeate-support ing-families-in-t…/

With your help, we've been supporting holiday projects across the UK which provide food and fun to 50,000 children a week. Watch our latest video to see the incredible impact of our #ActiveAte programme. Help us reach even more children this summer - donate today to add your support: http://fareshare.org.uk/ActiveAte

Big thanks Bidfood UK for your generous donation of savoury snacks and bottled juices for our #ActiveAte programme. These will go down a treat with the kids at all the school holiday projects we are supporting this summer! All 350 of them!
Read more: http://fareshare.org.uk/get-invo…/activ eate-school-holidays/

FareShare 's #ActiveAte campaign is helping 350 holiday clubs and schemes across the UK to bridge the hunger gap these summer holidays. Activities, fun and good quality #surplusfood from FareShare are helping children enjoy their summer holidays on a full stomach and return to school happy, healthy, and ready to learn.
You can help us do so much more - Donate today http://fareshare.org.uk/activeate

Our thanks to innocent for stepping up and providing even more lovely juices for all the #ActiveAte school holiday projects FareShare is supporting this summer! We are all so grateful for your continued support 🙌
Read more: http://fareshare.org.uk/get-invo…/activ eate-school-holidays/

FareShare's Samantha Lai - Out on the van delivering #surplusfood and drinks to children’s holiday clubs supported by FareShare’s #ActiveAte campaign. FareShare is supporting 350 holiday schemes across the UK to help bridge the hunger gap this summer and keep children active and fed. Find out more and Donate today!
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We caught up with Poole Housing Partnership (PHP) to find out how #surplusfood from FareShare is making a difference to people's lives across Hampshire.
“We’ve had guests who weren’t able to cook at all, or just living on microwave meals, completely isolated in their flat, who are now coming out to meet and talk to other people and getting a nutritious meal. If we had to buy the food it would become prohibitively expensive for the residents, it just couldn’t continue” says Cl...aire, PHP’s community engagement coordinator.
Read more: http://fareshare.org.uk/surplus-food-how- it-makes-a-differ…/
If you’d like to volunteer for FareShare and help us get good food to good causes just like Poole Housing Partnership, sign up here www.fareshare.org.uk/volunteer
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Thank you to FrieslandCampina for your generous donation of YAZOO Drinks for the holiday projects our #ActiveAte programme is supporting this summer!
Read more about our holiday campaign here: http://fareshare.org.uk/get-invo…/activ eate-school-holidays/

Camberwell-based Burgess Sports provides a wide range of childrens' activities throughout the year but dramatically scales up its operation over the summer to cater for extra demand. As part of our #ActiveAte campaign, FareShare delivers child friendly food and snacks appropriate to the club’s requirements each and every week.
Read about their programme http://ow.ly/zlDq30lq20H and donate today to help us do more!

We're so grateful to have the support of Santa Maria Foods for our #ActiveAte school holiday programme. The rice and cooking sauces are going down a treat with the kids holiday projects, helping to provided much needed healthy lunches!
Read more: http://fareshare.org.uk/get-invo…/activ eate-school-holidays/

We expected to feed 20,000 children this summer. Now we're feeding 50,000 each week - and you can help us reach even more.
In June, we launched #ActiveAte, a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of holiday hunger and increase our provision of meals for children at risk of food poverty this summer.
Last year, we supported 200 charities - but more than 350 holiday programmes across the UK have now signed up to receive regular food deliveries. And if you count the additional s...upport we provide through our FareShare Go scheme, the number rises to 1,000 projects, and 160,000 children being fed every week!
This year’s figures in comparison to 2017 demonstrate the glaring need for food provision in our communities across the UK.
Please add your support and donate today to help us reach even more: http://fareshare.org.uk/fareshare-food-pr ovision-for-child…/
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Meet our volunteer driver Hasan. He is one of FareShare’s longest serving frontline volunteers, having volunteered since 2005.
Read his Story and find out what has kept him volunteering and helping to #feedpeoplefirst for such a long time.

Big thanks to Wessanen UK for the generous donation of Say Kallo rice cakes and peanut butter for children’s summer holiday projects being supported by our #ActiveAte campaign!
Read more: http://fareshare.org.uk/get-invo…/activ eate-school-holidays/

Huge thanks to our longstanding partner Kellogg's UK & Ireland for the extra donation of cereals and snacks for the school holiday projects we are supporting this summer through our #ActiveAte campaign!
Find out more here: http://fareshare.org.uk/get-invo…/activ eate-school-holidays/

Lovely donations of Lailia Foods rice from Surya Foods going down a treat with our charity member the British Red Cross. Thanks for supporting our #ActiveAte programme this summer!
Find out more about #ActiveAte here: http://fareshare.org.uk/get-invo…/activ eate-school-holidays/

A huge thanks to Groupon for their support through their Dine and Donate campaign. Their Summer Food For All promotion means that throughout August, every time you book a restaurant or dining experience, Groupon will donate £1 to FareShare . This year their donation will support our #ActiveAte campaign supplying nutritious meals and snacks to thousands of children across the UK taking part in holiday projects.
There are over 400 restaurant deals to choose from in London and beyond, including fine dining, afternoon teas and even wine tasting. Click below to browse the options, treat yourself to a delicious meal, and help us feed more people in need. #SummerFoodForAll https://gr.pn/2M4CgLm

July was a record breaking month – not just for temperatures, but for the amount of good food going to good causes! We redistributed 1,024 tonnes of food, for the first time going over the 1,000 tonnes mark within a single month – what a fantastic milestone!
For comparison, in 2003 FareShare redistributed 1,046 tonnes of food in the whole year!

#Foodwaste, the bigger picture. Every year in the UK at least 250,000 tonnes of food is dumped in landfill, turned into biofuel or ground up into animal feed, while the UN estimates 8.4 million people in the UK are living in food poverty.
We say #feedpeoplefirst - how about you? Find out more and get involved.

When it comes to food waste, we like to think we know the bigger picture. Those old images of the European tomato mountain being bulldozed into the ground. That discarded slice of pizza littering the street. The mouldy lettuce we’ve hastily hurled into the pedal bin.
Well think again.
This is good, fresh, in-date food being wasted every day, on farms, in manufacturing, in retailers. Tonnes of it, over 250,000 tonnes to be exact. And that’s just in the UK.
... If you want to reduce the picture, then sign up to volunteer with FareShare at fareshare.org.uk/volunteer
Help us do something about it.
http://fareshare.org.uk/food-waste-the-bi gger-picture/
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brilliant to deal with very nice people, was disapointed today with the food it was 3 days out of date, cant give it to the families i help so will have to be thrown away

Went along to FareShare today with my team from work and we were knocked out by what goes on here and the hard work the permanent staff do as well as the dedicated volunteers. Volunteers like us today who go along for the day can't help but be impressed by the organisation. Speaking for myself, my experience along with one of my colleagues went out with a regular volunteer driver to half a dozen charities across London dropping off many pallets of food to crisis centres, homeless shelters etc. I'm in awe of the unbelievable organisation and meticulous care taken to get the food sorted, packed and delivered to the charities to make a difference.

Volunteered with London FareShare on Friday last week. Great initiative and friendly staff and volunteers - will go again for sure! Eyeopening as to how much food is wasted, they do a great job in making sure it does not go to waste.

Thank you Fareshare for your excellent service, for delivery Dostiyo's first food supply. Very polite & friendly staff, keep up the good work you do.

People who do an amazing job. Thank you for what you do!!!

Just started up with Fareshare for a youth and toddler groups I help with and today we got some eggs from a Tesco's store who works with Fareshare and it meant we could give the toddlers scambled eggs for their snacks

It has been very positive experience for me to volunteer with Fareshare. I learn so much and enjoy interaction with the staff and other volunteers. The organisation contributes so much to reducing food waste, poverty, hunger, and stress on the environment, given its size and resources. This brilliant idea should be multiplied and applied to more aspects of life to make the world a better place. Thank you Fareshare.

I've been to my local Tesco and donated food today. This should be an all year round "Fareshare".

I have volunteered at the Kent depot in Ashford since it opened in July 2014 just finished 4 weeks full time over Christmas whilst on uni holidays back to 2 afternoons now until Easter break. Really great charity to work for & helping to save the environment too !! well done Fareshare :)

I have done my very little bit for 3 hours at my local Tesco in Fareham for the past 2 years. Lovely experience great people generous donations from most and friendly Tesco employees to boot. Would like to do a lot more if I can. This is so needed.

Fareshare donate food to @Direct2yourdoor4u and we distribute it to the homeless. Thank you for helping us help those in need!! Fantastic service!

As the lead in a non profit enterprise (Little Chefs Big Chefs CIC - find us on Facebook) which helps to support and teach families, children and individuals how to cook and eat healthier, we are proud to be registered with Fareshare.

We use the donated foods in some of our sessions but also donate some to local vulnerable families through social workers, family workers and health visitors helping to alleviate hunger.

It is a brilliant initiative that helps share food but also helps to avoid waste. :-D

As one of the warehouse managers im obliged to say that i had a great time but in truth it is the best place i have been to as a volunteer and a member of staff, i do so love it and all the people that i work with every day are the best ��

As a trustee of a homeless charity I appreciate the quality of the items we are given to turn into nutricious meals and the excellent value for money we get for our subscription to the delivery service. The delivery crew are quick and efficient too!

Absolutely wonderful what FareShare does for communities! Please volunteer and help out in any way possible

A Wonderful place....

Such a good cause.....

If you have a spare hour or so .....

Give it to FareShare..�

I have always been an anti-food-waste personality. FareShare is doing a good job as regards this. I'm resident in sub-Saharan Africa and I know how much food is wasted in a lot of developed countries. Thumbs up to FareShare in ensuring less waste, as well as meeting the needs of the needy.

I will be glad if FareShare can enlarge their tentacles, probably get to sub-Saharan Africa soon. I'm waiting...

I spent six months as a DWP conscript at Fareshare in Newcastle,I saw first hand how not to run a food distribution operation, the staff, volunteers, and to some extent the DWP conscripts, got first choice of the donated food, if you put this with the waste, generated by incompetent, or nonexistent, record keeping, its no surprise that most of the complaints are,"we never get what we order", for most part when I was there, at least one, usually both,of the vans were not road legal, despite constantly being told this by the drivers, most of which were DWP conscripts, nothing was done about it, if you were a volunteer you were put through a basic training scheme, if you were sent by the DWP, you were just expected to get on with it, even, as in most cases, if you had absolutely no experience, as you got to the end of the six month compulsory DWP stint it was suggested, you might like to come back as a volunteer, nobody ever has.

It's not clear whether the pheasants these people take have been shot using toxic lead shot - is this stuff safe?