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FareShare Midlands is an environmental charity with a social purpose. We work with the food industry to source and redistribute quality, in date surplus food that would otherwise have gone to waste. This food is used to create nutritious meals for vulnerable people in the midlands.
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Situation
Britain is hungry. 14.5 million people in the UK (22% of the population) are living in families in poverty. 4.3 million are children (31% of all children in the UK). These numbers continue to climb as the cost of living increases. Meanwhile, over 33% of all human-made climate emissions arise from food production, and 33% of all the food grown in the world is wasted. In the UK, food production and waste generates 35% of our total CO2 emissions.
Solution
FareShare Midlands turns an environmental problem into a social solution. Our mission is to maximise the social value of surplus food and we are the region’s largest food redistribution charity. We supply good quality surplus food to local communities who tackle hunger and poverty and the root causes of both. We are aiming to raise £10,000, to help redistribute 40,000 meals of surplus food that would otherwise go to waste. This will also save 16.8 tonnes of food from going to waste.
