We’re very proud to have diverted enough food to create 207k meals for vulnerable people through our partnership with food charity FareShare in the first six months of this year.
Products that couldn’t be sold, including cooked roast chicken pieces, for example, have been packed and redistributed through FareShare’s network of charities and community groups. The surplus food we have shared has been used by over 2000 organisations.
Claire Burcham, Group Second Nature Co-ordinator said, “The FareShare ‘Surplus with Purpose’ funding supported by the Government has been a huge help to businesses like ours, to get food we can’t sell onto people's plates. We’ve already made all the obvious food waste reductions, and this fund helps us be far more creative.”
One of our innovative projects involves residual sausage meat left at the end of a production run that used to go to anaerobic digestion. We realised though that this premium sausage meat could be used if we accessed FareShare’s ‘Surplus with Purpose’ fund.
This is just one example of how useful the funding is to enable businesses like ours to redistribute product that previously would not have been donated.