“A joint partnership between Wiltshire Farm Foods and a nationwide charity will contribute up to 2,000 meals a week for homeless people. At the start of 2008, FareShare South West delivered food to 22 centres in Bristol.”
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Onwards and upwards!
We continue to make progress, and since our last newsletter on the 15th February 2008, we are pleased to report that we have distributed a further 34 tonnes of food! That’s 74 tonnes since we opened on [...] Continue Reading…
We have lift off!!
At last, our first delivery happened on the 9th October 2007, and FareShare is now all systems go! We experienced a hugely successful launch on the 8th November, and received a great deal of media coverage from the [...] Continue Reading…
“A scheme that delivers surplus supermarket food to the homeless in Bristol is being launched tonight. The FareShare South West project delivers food to 50 homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation centres and youth offender projects. Up to 400 tonnes of [...] Continue Reading…
“We’re currently delivering two days a week, but want to extend that to three days by Christmas and five by this time next year. We’ve taken on 10 volunteers so far but ideally I’d like to see 40 people here, six [...] Continue Reading…
“We work with the supermarkets to pick up food from the back of stores at the end of the day, but are also working with their distribution centres. If we can save 50 organisations or centres £20,000 a year [...] Continue Reading…