FareShare Merseyside redistributes quality surplus food to over 232 community-based organisations who are working with vulnerable people across the region and parts of North Wales. We are keen to expand our reach, actively looking to recruit charity members who cook onsite, providing nutritious meals and wraparound holistic services to those most in need within their communities.
Steve Morgan Foundation
In November 2024 we opened a new Coronation Food Hub in Knowsley, with thanks to a transformational funding partnership with the Steve Morgan Foundation and another local funder. This extraordinary support has significantly upgraded our warehouse facilities and ability to enhance surplus food redistribution in the region, including greater storage capacity, new fridges and freezers, more delivery vans and an on-site training kitchen for our charity members.
This partnership in Merseyside is the first of many for the Coronation Food Project, an initiative inspired by His Majesty King Charles III, to transform the UK’s ability to tackle food waste and fight hunger.
Volunteering with FareShare Merseyside
Our volunteers are at the heart of our service, with an amazing team of almost 100 volunteers, who ensure quality surplus food reaches those most in need in all communities in our region. As a thank you for their support, we hold regular wellbeing social events and offer pathways onto our employability program. If you can help redistribute surplus food to people in need across the region, please complete the online volunteer application form or give the team a call.
New Horizons
New Horizons employability program was established in April 2021 with the vision of supporting people into employment. The focus of the programme is to be fully inclusive and person-centric, giving the individual full control of their journey.
Our accredited training program offers candidates the opportunity to upskill through a range of courses include training and licenses on three different forklift trucks; Health and Safety Level 1; Food Hygiene Level 2; Warehouse and Storage Level 1; and Fire Marshal training.
Our employability coaches support candidates with C.V. writing, job searching, application forms and interview skills, tailored to their needs and learning styles.
Meet FareShare Merseyside’s team of volunteers as they save food from going to waste and deliver it to those in need in Liverpool. Follow them as they pay a visit to Phoenix Community Cafe to see how they are using surplus food to benefit the local community.
“I struggled to find work so I joined the Merseyside employability programme, “New Horizons”, to help gain some skills and also help my mental health and boredom levels because I wasn’t really doing anything with my days. I’d really recommend joining the programme, it offers the best chance to improve your skills so an employer will look at your CV and see exactly the person they want to hire.”
James – New Horizons candidate
“After Covid we realised that right across the community – young families, older people – everyone was feeling the pinch. But it was more than that – we had lost connection and there was no meeting place for the community to come together, so we’ve been focused on expanding our services to make this happen.”
Prestatyn & Meliden Food Bank, which runs a food bank, community shop and community café using food from FareShare
Unit 1 A/B Academy Business Park
Lees Road
Liverpool, L33 7SA
Tel: 0151 486 1139
Email: fsmerseyside@fareshare.org.uk
Partner Organisation: FSUK
Mon-Fri : 8am – 4pm
Sat-Sun : Closed
