Fighting hunger & tackling food waste
72
Active volunteers
1020
Tonnes of food redistributed per year
238
Charities and Community groups across Yorkshire
1.8 million
Meals provided in the last year
How we fight hunger and food waste
We save good food from going to waste…
Hundreds of tonnes from the food industry.
redistribute it around Yorkshire…
From Harrogate to Sheffield and Halifax to Doncaster.
to charities, schools and community groups…
over 238 of them including children's breakfast clubs, homeless shelters and refuges.
…who turn it into meals for vulnerable people
Last year we redistributed enough food for over 1,600,000 meals.
Latest news from Yorkshire
Monday 16th July 2018 WRAP, the government’s waste advisory body has awarded us the largest grant in our history to trial an innovation designed …
Eight months into our wonderful partnership with Wakefield-based law firm Minster Law, the company has donated hundreds of hours of voluntary support, thousands of …
On 7th December 2018 FareShare Yorkshire celebrates it’s 20th anniversary. Over the last two decades we’ve redistributed thousands of tonnes of quality in-date surplus …
270,000 tonnes of perfectly edible food gets wasted by the food industry each year.
That’s enough for nearly 650,000,000 meals
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Everything we do at FareShare Yorkshire centres around food. Food brings people together. Food provision fights food insecurity issues. Food can help tackle social … Read more Food StoriesFour and a half months into 2019 and the news is astounding. Over 10,000 hours donated by our wonderful volunteers, enough surplus food to contribute to 988,000 meals accessed, dozens of forklift truck permits achieved, numerous volunteers have moved into full-time employment and 31 additional frontline organisations have started to access our service.
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Huge thank you to you all for your support yesterday. Great work!! 👏