Fighting hunger | Tackling food waste

Right now, 1 in 4 children across the South West are living in poverty. 

Together we can stop food from going to waste and get it where it should be – on people’s plates.

330+
active volunteers in our Bristol and Plymouth warehouses
1920
tonnes of food saved from waste last year
400+
charity members across South West
4,560,000
meals enabled 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 the South West…
From Gloucester to Cornwall and across Bristol.
to charities, schools and community groups…
over 400 of them including children’s clubs, homeless hostels and refuges.
…who turn it into meals for vulnerable people
Last year we redistributed enough food for 4.5 MILLION meals!

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FareShare is the only charity to take food from the wholesale level of the food industry

The vast majority of surplus occurs before food even gets to the supermarket. Each member of the FareShare network rescues that food and delivers it to those in need. FareShare Go is our supermarket collection service, which deals with supermarket-level surplus.

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