Meet the FareShare Yorkshire team:
If you have any questions or queries, drop us an email to enquiries@fareshareyorkshire.org
Click on a team member to find out more and to see their contact details.
If you have any questions or queries, drop us an email to enquiries@fareshareyorkshire.org
Click on a team member to find out more and to see their contact details.
Stephanie joined the team in early 2022 as Food Provision Coordinator in Leeds. She then went on to become Food Provision Manager in October 2022, working on various projects and managing our Leeds sites.
Now, as FullCrumb Community Outreach Manager, she directly supports and signposts our community food members. Offering additional support to our organisations, she strengthens the relationships and is a big part of our FullCrumb developments.
Elizabeth joined Fareshare Yorkshire in November 2024 and she plays a central role at FareShare Yorkshire as our Volunteer and Training Manager, bringing energy, compassion, and dedication to everything she does. Passionate about supporting volunteers, she ensures that everyone who gives their time—whether long-term, short-term, or part of a corporate group—has a rewarding, enjoyable, and safe experience. Elizabeth works closely with teams across our sites and with the FareShare National Volunteering Team to deliver a consistent, high-quality volunteer journey. She is also committed to maintaining the highest standards of health and safety and providing training that empowers individuals to grow in confidence and skills. Her leadership is key to helping us build a strong, supported volunteer community that drives our mission to end food insecurity across the region.
Mark has been part of the FareShare Yorkshire journey since 2008, bringing with him a wealth of experience and a deep-rooted passion for supporting people and communities. He began as a Forklift Truck Instructor before becoming Training Manager, working closely with Barnsley College and ITS to assess NVQs and ensure high standards through internal quality assurance. Mark later transitioned into volunteer coordination and employability support, playing a key role in helping individuals build confidence and skills. After retiring in 2023, his dedication brought him back in 2025 as Community Outreach Manager, where he now focuses on strengthening partnerships, supporting Community Food Members, and helping drive forward our mission to reduce food waste and fight hunger across Yorkshire.
Ithsham joined FareShare Yorkshire in February 2025, bringing a strong commitment to supporting communities through wellbeing and employability services. He delivers engaging workshops and one-to-one sessions for beneficiaries, helping them access the support they need to thrive. Ithsham works closely with external partners and Community Food Members, building meaningful relationships and ensuring services are responsive and impactful. A dedicated team player, Ithsham is always ready to lend a hand and genuinely cares about making a positive difference through his work.
Jason has been a valued member of the FareShare Yorkshire team since November 2018, working at our Leeds sites. With his warm personality and friendly approach, he’s built strong relationships with our Community Food Members, who always enjoy seeing him. Jason brings great energy to the warehouse each day and plays an important part in keeping our operations running smoothly.
Ruth joined FareShare Yorkshire in April 2024 after previously leading the daily operation of a charity that accessed our service. Her passion for helping charities to enhance their work is relentless, and many people in need who will never meet her have benefitted massively from the work she diligently performs.
Her daily focus is to help more charities access surplus food, ensure our members receive the kinds of surplus that will be most helpful, and support them to embed best practice.
Ruth has recently taken on the role of Warehouse Manager at our Barnsley site, where she leads with a hands-on approach and a strong commitment to efficiency, safety, and community impact. Her leadership is playing a key role in strengthening our operations and expanding our support to frontline organisations across Yorkshire.
If you would like to discuss your surplus food from FareShare Yorkshire, please contact Ruth at ruthpettitt@fareshareyorkshire.org
Sam joined the team in December 2023 after spending his spare time volunteering with us. As a Supervisor he supports operations in the warehouse, ensuring safe preparation of surplus ambient and chilled food to frontline charities across Yorkshire. Sam also helps us by delivering the surplus to our CFMs and supervising our corporate days.Sam has recently been promoted to Warehouse Manager after working for us for 11 months due to his dedication and hard work!
Virginia joined our team in April 2024 to provide vital accounting support to all areas of the charity’s work.
Having worked in the Third Sector for over 20 years, Virginia has extensive experience in strategic planning of organisational finances to ensure they are efficient and effective. Her brilliant work ethic, careful discernment and passion for growing the charity shines through. She plays a critical role in the compliant governance of our charity finances so that we can achieve our mission.
For all finance related enquiries please contact finance@fareshareyorkshire.org
Sampreeth joined our team in March 2024 to manage our charity’s food sourcing and logistic programme. In that time he has significantly strengthened our ability to intercept food across the region and make it as simple as possible for companies to do the right thing with their surplus food.
His partnership management and logistical insight mean that we can support more charities with the surplus food they need to function, and he passionately supports the wider team to tackle food insecurity.
In May 2025 Sampreeth took on the role of Supply Chain Manager to oversee our entire food supply from end-to-end.
If you would like to discuss offering your surplus food to us please contact offers@fareshareyorkshire.org
Russell joined FareShare Yorkshire in March 2025 at our Leeds sub-regional centre. As Warehouse Supervisor, he plays a key role in the day-to-day operations, from receiving deliveries to preparing high-quality surplus food orders for our community partners. Known for his infectious positivity and unwavering can-do attitude, Russell brings a smile and uplifting energy to the team every single day.
David first joined FareShare Yorkshire in January 2023 as Warehouse Supervisor at our Yorkshire Storage Hub, where he played a key role in ensuring the safe and efficient preparation of surplus food for frontline charities across the region. He also gained two ITSSAR-accredited forklift permits and later supported operations at both our Leeds SRC and RC sites. In 2025, David was promoted to Community Outreach Manager, where he now leads on strengthening relationships with our Community Food Members (CFMs), supporting food safety and waste reduction, and aligning community partnerships with FareShare Yorkshire’s wider operational goals. David brings a hands-on approach, strong strategic focus, and a deep commitment to making a positive impact across the communities we serve.
Pete joined FareShare Yorkshire in 2014 when our Leeds operation was formed and led the early development of that work. He is the longest-serving continuously employed member of our team, having contributed through the years to an operational, then development and now community focus. This makes him extremely knowledgable in many aspects of the charity’s work and a great support to colleagues in their development.
His daily focus is to help vital frontline charities access the surplus food they need each week and ensure they meet the compliance requirements laid out by our food partners. It is safe to say that hundreds of charities across different periods have been able to significantly enhance their work because of the help he provided in setting up their membership.
If you would like to discuss how to access surplus food from FareShare Yorkshire, please contact: peterbarringer@fareshareyorkshire.org or call 07921 852 638.
Rachel joined the team in November 2021 as our Head of HR, bringing expertise to our HR and finance functions, as well as supporting individuals within the charity. She is a passionate people person and is a strong believer in personal development of employees and volunteers.
Rachel’s contribution to FareShare Yorkshire has been invaluable, and her strong leadership keeps driving our charity forward. Her project management of employability provisions, strategic work to resource our operations and empathetic care for colleagues all come from a love of supporting people
To contact Rachel directly, email: rachelmorgan@fareshareyorkshire.org or call 01226 593778.
Matthew joined FareShare Yorkshire in June 2024 to lead our Leeds-based centres and was quickly appointed to lead the charity’s entire operational footprint across Yorkshire. He has many years of strong operations management experience within a warehouse environment and is very passionate about helping people in need.
Matthew particularly enjoys the community focus of his role, working alongside many of our volunteers on a daily basis. He would always take the lead in Corporate Responsibility in his previous roles and has transformed our approach as a charity to harnessing the help of the community within the operation.
Matthew is a strong leader who drives our standards and operational scale so that we can feed as many people as possible with ever changing amounts and kinds of surplus food day-by-day.
Terry was a long-standing volunteer at our Barnsley Regional Centre and now works for the charity across logistics and operations. He plays the crucial role of ensuring tens of tonnes of surplus food is collected from across the region ready for dispatch to the frontline.
Chris is the Project Manager in The FullCrumb Kitchen. The FullCrumb Kitchen aims to support community members in educating them on how to utilise surplus food. Chris provides hands-on kitchen training for community cooks, as well as offering recipe ideas and kitchen tips. He also links charity partners and encourages them to share recipes/ideas with each other about surplus food.
The kitchen facility is used for training staff and volunteers, including carrying out in-house courses. The aim is to ensure health and wellbeing by teaching cookery skills and basic nutrition.
If you’re a community food member interested in our classes, please email Chris: chrisclyburn@fareshareyorkshire.org
Josh has been a regular volunteer since 2018, volunteering at our Barnsley Regional Centre and offering a huge amount of support both in our warehouse and with our corporate volunteers. His dedication and leadership were nationally recognised when he was highly commended for Leadership in Volunteering in 2023.
In 2024, Josh officially joined our staff team as a key member, bringing his extensive hands-on experience and passion for the cause to the role. His ability to inspire others and his commitment to making a difference have made him an invaluable asset to our operations. Josh continues to lead by example, driving positive impact through both his work and ongoing engagement with volunteers.
Before joining the staff team, Duncan volunteered at our Barnsley warehouse for 14 years and has supported FareShare Yorkshire for the majority of the journey so far. He drives our lorry and vans, collecting quality surplus food from partners across the region.
Keely joined FareShare Yorkshire in 2015 as an apprentice operative. She then became Shift Supervisor overseeing and mentoring our employability trainees. As Warehouse Coordinator, she supported the rapid growth of our operations so that more frontline charities could benefit. She then went on to become the Barnsley Warehouse Manager, playing a big part in the operations and organisation of the warehouse. Now as Warehouse Supervisor, she is based on the warehouse floor, right in the heart of what we do. She oversees warehouse & driver volunteers, as well as ensuring orders and deliveries are dealt with smoothly and efficiently.
Mo joined the team at our Leeds Regional Centre in December 2024 as Warehouse Supervisor. He started with us shortly before that on our Employability Programme. Mo brings with him many years of experience in driving Lorries, busses, FLT. Mo is passionate about helping people and is a great asset to FareShare Yorkshire as he regularly supports all three of our sites in Yorkshire.
Jonathan joined FareShare Yorkshire in June 2017 and now serves as our Chief Executive Officer. Over the past eight years, he has played a central role in shaping and expanding our work, leading the design and delivery of major new initiatives across the region. He has built and nurtured strong partnerships with food donors, corporate supporters, and charitable foundations, while ensuring the organisation’s long-term financial sustainability.
A key leader of our regional food supply strategy, Jonathan’s efforts have enabled a dramatic increase in the number of charities and community groups we support. His leadership has been instrumental in growing our impact and deepening our connection with local communities.
Jonathan is widely respected for his dedication, vision, and hands-on approach. His unwavering commitment to FareShare Yorkshire’s mission of tackling food insecurity is reflected in every aspect of his work—from securing vital food and funding to strengthening relationships with local authorities and partners, and enhancing our operational capacity.
As CEO, Jonathan continues to build on the strong foundation he has helped establish. With his strategic insight, energy, and deep understanding of the organisation, he is exceptionally well-positioned to lead FareShare Yorkshire into its next phase of growth and impact.
If you would like to discuss a potential new area of activity or partnership please contact: jonathanwilliams@fareshareyorkshire.org or call 01226 593778.
That’s enough for nearly 650,000,000 meals