About Us

Supporting communities to relieve
food poverty

Providing quality food - surplus ‘fit for purpose’ product from the food and drink industry - to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community

Providing training and education around the essential life skills of safe food preparation and nutrition, and warehouse employability training through FareShare’s Eat Well Live Well programme

Promoting the message that ‘No Good Food Should Be Wasted’

FareShare has been operating since 2004 and today has 13 locations around the UK. Established in 1994 as a project within the homelessness charity Crisis, FareShare aims to help vulnerable groups, whether they are homeless, elderly, children, or other groups in food poverty within our communities.

FareShare Helps Improve Lives:

  • In 2009/10, the food redistributed by
    FareShare contributed towards more than
    6.7 million meals
  • The FareShare Community Food Network
    has 600 Community Members across
    the UK receiving food, training and
    advice
  • Every day an average of 29,000 people
    benefit from the service FareShare
    provides
  • As well as redistributing food, FareShare
    provides a programme of education and
    vocational training opportunities - the
    Eat Well Live Well programme

FareShare Helps The Environment:

  • The redistribution of food by FareShare minimises surplus food going to landfill
  • This redistribution of food helped businesses reduce CO2 emissions by 13,950 tonnes in 2008/09

FareShare’s New Vision

FareShare is embarking on a vision that will see the charity’s impact grow five-fold.
FareShare aims to:

  • Open a further 18 depots, bringing the total number to 30
  • Provide nutritious food to 2,500 community organisations and charities
  • Redistribute 20,000 tonnes of food per year
  • Everyday support 100,000 vulnerable people through food provision; as well as provide training and education through our Eat Well Live Well programme
  • Offer 6,000 volunteer opportunities