Food Access - Providing food to people living in food poverty:
Through its Food Access Programme, FareShare is providing food to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
The clients that use the services of FareShare's community Members all suffer from food poverty. Food poverty is suffered by people with low or no income with poor access to affordable nutritious food and who lack the knowledge, skills or equipment to ensure food is safe and prepared properly.
The FareShare Community Food Network
FareShare is a nationwide network of community based partnerships with regional organisations and charities.
FareShare franchises: Around the UK, FareShare is run by partner organisations acting as "social franchises" that deliver the FareShare services to their local Community Members. Click here for the contact details of your local FareShare franchise.
Community Members - The Community Food Network includes over 500 local charities and organisations - our Community Members - which receive FareShare food and other support.
This food encourages disadvantaged people into an environment (such as hostels, day centers, night shelters, breakfast clubs, women's refuges, after school clubs etc.) where they can receive appropriate support.
It also enable these organisations to reinvest funds into other services such as housing advice, training and medical support, which in turn help people rebuild their lives.
If you are a community organisation wishing to receive food and food-related support from FareShare, please contact your local FareShare operation to discuss the application process.
National Development
FareShare currently has 12 depots across the UK. Our current locations are: Aberdeen, Barnsley, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Sunderland.
FareShare's work to provide access to quality food for disadvantaged people also includes the development of new depots across the country.
For information on our development plans, please contact Mike McNally, National Development Manager, on 020 7394 2468 or email mike.mcnally@fareshare.org.uk