FareShare fighting hunger, tackling food waste

About FareShare FareShare is national charity fighting hunger and food waste in the UK. We do this by rescuing good quality surplus food that would otherwise go to landfill and sending it to charities and community projects across the country Rescuing 3,600 tonnes of surplus food Feeding 36,500 people a day Supporting over 700 charities and community projects

The Scale of the Challenge Poverty in the UK: 13.7 million people live in relative poverty (1) 5.8 million people in deep poverty - struggle to afford everyday essentials like food (1) (1)“Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2012

Food Waste in the UK: 362,000 tonnes of food waste in retail (1) 4,000 tonnes in distribution (1) 2,591,000 tonnes in manufacturing (1) Est tonnes in the supply chain “fit for human consumption” The Scale of the Challenge (1) “Waste arisings in the supply of food and drink to households in the UK”, WRAP, 2010

We source food distribute it to community projects who feed people that need it...into our network... 3,600 tonnes of food from the industry 700 organisations8.6 million meals 17 FareShare operations What we do

FareShare delivers surplus food to a network of over 700 charities and community projects across the UK, including hostels, day centres, women’s refuge centres and children’s breakfast clubs Last year the food redistributed by FareShare contributed towards more than 8.6 million meals, feeding 36,500 people a day The food FareShare provides saves charities and community projects almost £8 million a year, with 81.5% redirecting this money into other support services Where does the food go?

FareShare Depot Network 2010 Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Newcastle Liverpool Barnsley Manchester Leicester Llandudno Birmingham Deptford- London Bristol Brighton Belfast Cardiff Hull

Essential Service for Charities We save each community charity £13,000 pa on average In 2012 they increased the number of people fed by 59% 42% of them have faced funding cuts 70% expect demand to increase

Environmental Rationale GHG impact of composting is x8.3 when compared with re-distribution (6.6 for AD)

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