One of the highlights of the Business Awards is the Chamber’s charity of the Year award and this year was no exception, after Fare Share Yorkshire enjoyed a memorable evening not only landing the title of Charity of the Year, but also securing the Jelf......
Chamber’s Charity of the Year
FareShare Yorkshire works in partnership with the UK’s largest food charity, FareShare. We are part of a network of 21 regional centres located across the UK, of which we operate two (Barnsley and Leeds).
We are a community of independent franchised charities, all fighting the same issues: hunger, food insecurity issues and food waste. Over 270,000 tonnes of perfectly edible surplus food is thrown away each year. We want to see that food put to good use.
FareShare Yorkshire was formed in 1998 to help tackle the food poverty issues accross the county by redistributing surplus food across the region. FareShare Yorkshire source and redistribute quality, in date surplus food which would otherwise have go to waste, we turn an environmental problem into a social solution.
We save good food from going to waste… |
Hundreds of tonnes from the food industry. |
to charities, schools and community groups… |
over 270 of them including children’s breakfast clubs, homeless shelters and refuges. |
redistribute it around Yorkshire… |
From York to Sheffield and Halifax to Doncaster. |
…who turn it into meals for vulnerable people |
Last year we redistributed enough food for over 2,600,000 meals. |
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