FareShare Go allows eligible organisations to collect surplus food for free from their local supermarket. This service is available across Yorkshire whether or not you have a paid membership with FareShare Yorkshire or not.
How does it work?
FareShare Go is a service operated by FareShare UK, not Fareshare Yorkshire. It links charities and community organisations with local participating supermarkets. When the supermarket has surplus food, they send out a text notification to organisations. The organisation then collects the food themselves from the supermarket that night.
How is it different to full FareShare Yorkshire membership?
FareShare Go only takes very short-dated food from the supermarket (retail) level of the food industry. By comparison, FareShare Yorkshire takes food from the grower, producer, importer, wholesaler, manufacturer and distributor levels of the food industry. None of the food provided by FareShare Yorkshire has ever seen a supermarket shelf and costs a lot more to extract than supermarket surplus. That is why we can only run this provision by charging a membership fee. Surplus from Fareshare Yorkshire also has a lot more shelf life than surplus through FareShare Go.
