FareShare

  • Foodservice Footprint Unknown-7-copy-2 Redistribution could do more harm than good, claims report Grocery sector news updates Out of Home sector news Trussell Trust Professor Martin Caraher news-email Food Research Collaboration food redistribution FareShare

    Redistribution could do more harm than good, claims report

    Donating surplus food to charity will not solve the issues of food waste and hunger, a new report has claimed. Research by the Food Research Collaboration concluded that companies giving surplus food to food banks is a “short-term band aid”… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint P6-2 Redistribution serves up 18 million meals Grocery sector news updates Out of Home sector news Tesco Sainsbury's news-email Lindsay Boswell food redistribution FareShare ASDA

    Redistribution serves up 18 million meals

    A total of 9,072 tonnes of “waste” food was redistributed by Fareshare in 2015/16, 25% more than the previous year. It was enough to provide the equivalent of 18.3 million meals to people in need, but represents only 2% of… Read More

  • Campylobacter down at Tesco

    NEW DATA shows that only 9% of Tesco’s chicken now contains the highest levels of the food bug campylobacter. This is below the 10% target set by the Food Standards Agency. This quarter’s results compared favourably to the 15% figure… Read More

  • Compass Group gives companies a FareShare

    COMPASS GROUP UK & Ireland has joined forces with FareShare – a charity organisation dedicated to fighting hunger and tackling food waste in the UK.                           This partnership… Read More

  • UK could be losing out on 800m meals from ‘hidden food’ which could help 5.8m people in ‘deep poverty’

    THE UK could be losing out on 800m meals from ‘hidden food’ which could help 5.8m people living in ‘deep poverty’, according to food redistribution charity FareShare. The charity already provides over 12m meals from this ‘hidden food’ source to… Read More

  • Sodexo Servathon gives 465 volunteer hours to FareShare

    EMPLOYEES FROM Sodexo gave the equivalent of 62 working days to volunteering with a food charity for Servathon in April and May.                 Servathon is an annual campaign which invites Sodexo employees across… Read More

  • WRAP looks at redistribution to tackle food waste

    THE WASTE & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has issued a new study which suggests that food waste could be cut through the redistribution of surplus products by retailers.                       The… Read More

  • “Servathon” to redistribute surplus food

    FORMER RUGBY World Cup winner, Celebrity Masterchef winner and Sodexo’s ambassador for health and wellbeing, Matt Dawson, has spent time this week redistributing surplus food from charity FareShare to Londoners suffering from food poverty.            … Read More

  • Cows fed old food

    COWS COULD provide a new outlet for food waste.     A trial by Company Shop, which works with charities and sells surplus food through members-only shops, has successfully reared a cow on a range of inedible food that was… Read More

  • Share And Share Alike

    Brakes Group has committed to support FareShare, the food charity for the poor and vulnerable. And there is a double feel good factor for the company – doing good for others is also cutting the company’s carbon footprint. Brakes Group,… Read More