Stephanie

FullCrumb Community Outreach Manager

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 Lopez

Volunteer and Training Manager

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.

Ithsham Tariq

Community Outreach Manager

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 Williams

Warehouse Supervisor

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 Pettitt

Warehouse Manager

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 Richards

Warehouse Manager

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 Hoskings

Head of Finance

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 Nadig

Supply Chain Manager

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 Morley

Warehouse Supervisor

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 Pople

Community Outreach Manager

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 Barringer

Community Outreach Manager

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 Morgan

Head of HR

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 Denison

Head of Operations

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 Dyke

Lorry Driver

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.

Josh Wilkinson

Warehouse Supervisor

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.

Duncan Baxter

Lorry Driver

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 Neal

Warehouse Supervisor

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 Aryana

Warehouse Supervisor

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 Williams

CEO

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.

Sarah Hobbs

Trustee & Co-Chair

Sarah has served on the FareShare Yorkshire Board since 2012 and became Co-Chair in July 2023. Alongside her role at FareShare, she runs a training consultancy and is currently training for ordination within the Church of England. Sarah has also held positions on several charity boards and served as a school governor. She is deeply committed to FareShare’s mission, recognising the growing need for food support across Yorkshire and the charity’s vital role in meeting it. Her favourite meal is sausage, eggs, chips, beans—and a generous helping of ketchup.

David Swinden

Trustee & Co-Chair

David joined the FareShare Yorkshire Board in 2012 following a lifelong career with the Humberside and South Yorkshire Probation Trusts. He led offender education, training, and employment programmes for over a decade, helping to establish FareShare’s early employability initiatives. Elected Co-Chair in July 2023, David is passionate about supporting disadvantaged communities through food redistribution and volunteer development. His favourite meal is a traditional roast dinner with plenty of vegetables and gravy, followed by bread and butter pudding.

Rachel McElroy

Trustee

Rachel is Marketing Director at Axiologik, a Leeds based digital transformation consultancy and a senior leader in the digital sector. She joined the FareShare Yorkshire Board in 2023 to give back in a way that’s personally meaningful, having experienced food insecurity herself growing up.
Rachel brings her expertise in brand strategy to help amplify the charity’s impact and is inspired by the community spirit of FareShare’s food partners. Her favourite food is homemade pizza—especially when made with her kids, who tell her off for her love of adding fruit. Blue cheese, pear and walnut is a combination she thinks is perfect!

Stephen Stothart

Trustee

Stephen is a retired accountant who has lived and worked in Leeds since 1984. He first connected with FareShare Yorkshire as a volunteer van driver and now serves as both a Trustee and an active volunteer. Stephen also volunteers at one of the Community Food Members he delivers to, reflecting his deep commitment to the charity’s mission. His favourite food is a spicy curry—especially when made with surplus vegetables, combining flavour with purpose.

Mike Willmetts

Trustee

Mike joined FareShare Yorkshire as a volunteer van driver during the Covid pandemic in 2020 and became a Trustee in March 2024. With a career in financial services, including two decades in internal audit, Mike contributes to both the Finance and Risk sub-committees. Passionate about reducing food waste, Mike has a lifelong connection to food through his rural upbringing and early work in agriculture and catering. Diagnosed as coeliac five years ago, he’s become even more mindful of nutrition. Outside of FareShare, Mike enjoys cycling and playing golf.

Sarah Sunderland

Trustee

Sarah is a Chartered FCIPD and senior HR professional with extensive experience in organisational development and strategic change. She has been a Trustee since 2016 and served as Chair for three years until Summer 2023. Sarah’s commitment to FareShare Yorkshire stems from a strong belief in its mission to tackle waste and support communities through food. Her favourite meal is chicken with Yorkshire pudding, vegetables, and gravy—a dish that lifts her spirits and reminds her of the power of nourishing food.

Debbie Bowen-Heaton

Trustee

Debbie brings over 30 years of industry and consulting experience, most recently as a Partner at PwC. Her expertise in supply chain management supports FareShare Yorkshire’s mission to optimise food redistribution and reduce waste. Now retired, Debbie is committed to using her time to give back to the community. She believes no one should face hunger or food insecurity in today’s world. Her go-to comfort food is her husband’s homemade fish pie—delicious and deeply satisfying.

Clare Evans

Trustee

Clare is an experienced Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director with 28 years in the food manufacturing sector, including a long tenure at Greencore Foods. She brings deep expertise in supply chain, food safety, and operational efficiency. Having supported FareShare during her career, Clare joined the board to give back to the Yorkshire community she calls home. Her favourite dish is freshly made tagliatelle with Bolognese—a family favourite and a nod to her love of Italy.

Scott Johnston

Trustee

Scott first joined FareShare Yorkshire as a volunteer driver in 2020 and later worked part-time as a Warehouse Supervisor. He returned to volunteering and joined the Board in June 2025 to help expand the charity’s impact. With over 35 years in IT project and programme management, Scott brings valuable skills in planning, risk analysis, and stakeholder engagement. He also volunteers with Day One, a medical charity, and supports his son’s gourmet mushroom business. His seasonal favourites include Caprese salad with ciabatta and red wine in summer, and a hearty curry with lager in winter.

Jonny Longden

Trustee

Jonny is a Strategy Manager at the Regulator of Social Housing and has spent most of his career in the social housing sector. His work has given him a deep appreciation for the role food charities play in supporting vulnerable communities. After volunteering with FareShare Yorkshire, Jonny joined the Board to help further its mission of reducing food waste and tackling hunger. His favourite cuisine is Indian—though he admits his attempts at cooking it often miss the mark!

Muna Taha

Trustee

Muna is a Finance & Operations Manager and has worked in the voluntary and community sector for many years, bringing a strong focus on quality, accountability, and inclusive service design. Her role centres on ensuring that people feel genuinely heard and cared for, using feedback to drive improvements and deliver positive outcomes. She is passionate about community wellbeing and is a dedicated advocate for those whose voices are often overlooked.

Outside of work, Muna enjoys growing food in spaces both big and small, spending time outdoors with her dog Skye, and caring for her ducks and hens — a peaceful balance to her professional life.