The community food network FareShare is looking for fresh produce businesses to help the charity complete its food offer to disadvantaged people at the margin of society.
Alongside providing free food to organisations suporting vulnerable people, the charity FareShare offers businesses a waste management system by taking all of their surplus stock.
“By surplus stock, we mean good-quality food that has no commercial outlet for the business and would otherwise be thrown away, such as an error at a supermarket depot receiving too much stock or rejected late deliveries,” said Michael Hahn, FareShare business development manager, at the Food and Environment Efficiency Day’s (FEED) exhibition in Nottingham on February 5. “We then distribute the food between 450 national projects, such as homeless shelters and youth clubs.
“We are desperate for fresh fruit and vegetables, as we would very much like to offer it,” he continued. “This could be produce the quality of which is not acceptable to their customers, yet is perfectly consumable.”
FareShare aims to reduce food poverty in the UK, as well as diverting food away from landfill. It has been estimated that one third of all waste going into landfill comes from the food sector, and there are more than four million people in the UK that cannot afford to maintain a healthy diet.
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