Community Food Network

EP Sept 09 Please read our latest feature in the evening post dated 7th September 2009

A massive thanks goes out to the students at Ashton Park School for raising £263.56 for FareShare. The team of 6th form students and staff ran the Bristol 10K and raised sponsorship for three charities: FareShare, Bobby Moore’s Cancer Charity and the Special Care Baby Unit at Southmead Hospital.  Thank you

“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.” To read the whole article, click here.

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 the 10th October 2007. We are now delivering to 32 organisations throughout Bristol and the [...]

“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 food a year will be collected by volunteers and delivered in two refrigerated vans.” To download [...]

“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 on providing food, that is £1 million that can be directly reinvested in the community.” To [...]