Fighting hunger & tackling food waste
How we fight hunger and food waste
We save good food from going to waste…
Thousands of tonnes from the food industry.
redistribute it around Yorkshire…
From York to Sheffield and Halifax to Doncaster.
to charities, schools and community groups…
over 280 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 2,800,000 meals.
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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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Fantastic opportunity to join the team at @GoodfoodBarns. FareShare Yorkshire will be the employer for this role.
The landmark Hungry for Change report references Leeds, among other mentions, at:
Point 95 on page 44
Point 139 on page 56
Appendix 6 on page 191 https://twitter.com/FareShareYorks/status/1280049201766957056
We are very pleased to have contributed to this report alongside valued partners including @FareShareYorks @LeedsCC_News @foodaidnetwork @LeedsCommFound @GlobalFoodLeeds and everyone working together across Leeds to create a more just food system. https://twitter.com/FareShareYorks/status/1280049201766957056
House of Lords Select Committee has launched its landmark report "Hungry for Change"
Great to contribute to this report alongside partners in Leeds. @foodaidnetwork @foodwiseleeds @LeedsCommFound @LeedsCC_News
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/408/food-poverty-health-and-environment-committee/news/147210/time-to-fix-the-failures-in-food-says-lords-committee/